Honor Play 4T and Play 4T Pro: an unusual budget employee and a strange middle class

Honor has two new things at once: Honor Play 4T and Honor Play 4T Pro smartphones are on the Chinese market. Names suggest a close affinity for devices. Familiarity with the company's custom to sculpt new models by renaming existing ones makes us look for analogues. Both assumptions are false.

It is undeniable that the Honor Play 4T is easypick up quite a lot of almost analogs close to the specifications, but the model looks different, so it can rightfully be called one of a kind. And so this is another replenishment of the legion of smartphones manufactured by Huawei, built on its own HiSilicon Kirin 710 chipset and equipped with a rather poor IPS screen with a diagonal of 6.39 ″ and a resolution of 720 × 1560 pixels. Well, at least Huawei Enjoy 10. Substantially - one to one (almost, the memory capacity still does not match). Outwardly different.

Honor Play 4T

Honor Play 4T is not quite modest forenough budget in many other parameters of the device with a camera - dual, but with a leading 48-megapixel module. The second is a 2 MP depth sensor. The front camera is 8 MP, without showing off.

The battery is not bad - 4000 mAh, the average charge is 10 watts. The charging port is MicroUSB, in Huawei Type C they do not put anywhere.

Single-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz) also supports the budget version.

Honor Play 4T

The following line destroys the picture of the world. There is a lot of memory unexpectedly - as much as 6 GB of RAM and as many as 128 GB of internal flash. Yes, and with the expansion of microSD-cards. This is quite unexpected, especially since other, more modest, options are either not provided at all, or have not yet been presented.

Fresh operating system - MagicUI 3.1 based on Android 10.

The issue price in the Chinese market is ¥ 1199 (₽12700, $ 170). And you can’t say that it’s expensive.

Honor Play 4T

Main features of Honor Play 4T:

Screen S-IPS, 6.39 ″, 720 × 1560, 269 ppi, 16M colors, touch, capacitive, multi-touch 10 touches
Iron HiSilicon Kirin 710A
4 x Cortex-A73, 4 x Cortex-A53, Mali-G51
Memory RAM 6 GB, ROM 128 GB, Micro-SD
Mobile Internet LTE
HSDPA, HSUPA, TD-SCDMA
Edge
Mobile networksLTE Bands 1,3,5,8,34,38-41
UMTS 850, 900, 2100
GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900
CDMA 800
TD-SCDMA
Battery Li-Ion, 4000 mAh, 10W charging
Dimensions159.81 x 76.13 x 8.13 mm
Weight176 g
Rear Camera: Dual, Flash, Auto Focus

- 48 MP

- 2 MP, depth sensor
front camera: 8 MP, no flash, no autofocus
NavigationGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou
OS Android 10, MagicUI 3.1
SensorsAccelerometer, Compass, Approach, Illumination, Fingerprint Scanner (at the back)
USBMicro v2.0, USB-OTG

Honor Play 4T Pro

Honor Play 4T Pro is still more interesting. He is unable to find an analogue at all, not least because he is a strange mix of specifications that are characteristic of a solid middle class and some of the decisions of “yesterday”. In particular, for some reason Magic UI 2.1 on the basis of Android 9 is used here as an operating system. What is the reason for this Pro-model that it was so offended in comparison with the younger brother?

Honor Play 4T Pro

On the Honor Play 4T, by the way, the 4T Pro is not particularly similar at all.

Honor Play 4T Pro

The Honor Play 4T Pro chipset is relatively fresh andquite powerful - HiSilicon Kirin 810 (about three hundred thousand AnTuTu parrots). The smartphone is not offended by the memory - the operating capacity is 6 or even 8 GB, the drive is 128 GB in both versions, but it will already have to be expanded with an NM-Card, which is somewhat less convenient than microSD and not more expensive.

The “adult” screen is 6.3 ″ OLED with a resolution of 1080 × 2400, the fingerprint scanner is built-in.

4000 mAh battery, 22.5 W fast charge supported. Port symmetric Type-C.

Three cameras for the middle class todayat times - the lower limit of the norm. With cameras, in principle, everything is fine - 48 MP with an aperture of f / 1.8, 8 MP wide-angle 120 ° and 2 MP depth sensor. Just dispensed with fanaticism. For a selfie, we limited ourselves to a 16 MP module.

For some reason, there is no gyroscope. Honor Play 4T is also deprived of it, but for the middle class, why refuse this.

Honor Play 4T Pro

Varieties and prices of Honor Play 4T Pro:

6 GB + 128 GB - ¥ 1499 (₽15800, $ 212)
8 GB + 128 GB - ¥ 1699 (₽18000, $ 241)

Main features of Huawei Honor Play 4T Pro:

Screen OLED, 6.3 ″, 1080 × 2400, 418 ppi, 16M colors, touch, capacitive, multi-touch 10 touches
IronHiSilicon Kirin 810
2 x Cortex-A76, 6 x Cortex-A55, Mali-G52
Memory RAM 6–8 GB, ROM 128 GB, NM-Card up to 256 GB
Mobile Internet LTE
HSDPA, HSUPA, TD-SCDMA
Edge
Mobile networksLTE
UMTS
GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900
CDMA 800
TD-SCDMA
Battery Li-Pol 4000 mAh Fast Charging 22.5W
Dimensions157.4 x 73.2 x 7.75 mm
Weight 165 g
Rear Camera: Triple, Flash, Auto Focus

- 48 MP, f / 1.8

- 8 MP, wide angle, f / 2.4, 120 °

- 2 MP, depth sensor, f / 2.4
front camera: 16 MP, f / 2.0, no flash, no autofocus
NavigationGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou
OS Android 9.0 Pie, MagicUI 2.1
SensorsAccelerometer, Compass, Approach, Illumination, Fingerprint Scanner (at the back)
USBType-C v2.0, USB-OTG

Tatyana Kobelskaya