Honor has finally unveiled its newest smartphones with the Honor 30 series. The Honor 30 and Honor 30 Pro were announced together with the more expensive Honor 30 Pro+.
The Honor 30 Pro is quite similar with the Pro Plus version in terms of processor, and design. Meanwhile, the Honor 30 uses the newest Kirin 985 5G chipset with some specs downgrade and a far lower price tag.
Honor 30 Pro
To start, the Honor 30 Pro has similar screen as that of the more expensive Honor 30 Pro+ version. It comes with a 6.57-inch FHD+ OLED display, and a pill-like cutout for the dual-selfie cameras. There is the 32-megapixel main front camera, and an 8-megapixel ultrawide lens. It also has an under-display fingerprint scanner.
At the back is the triple camera setup. The cameras of the Honor 30 Pro are quite similar to the Pro+ version except that its main camera is changed to a 40-megapixel Sony IMX600 sensor. Meanwhile, other cameras are identical. These include the 8-megapixel periscope lens capable of 5x optical and 50x digital zoom, and a 16-megapixel ultrawide shooter.
Internals-wise, it uses the flagship Kirin 990 5G coupled with 8GB RAM. It comes in either 128GB or 256GB internal storage. Moreover, the Honor 30 Pro runs the latest Android 10 with Magic UI 3.10. Unfortunately, there’s no Google Mobile Services here. On the other hand, the device has a 4,000mAh battery which supports 40W wired charging.
The Honor 30 Pro is available in four colors: black, purple, silver and green. The 8GB/128GB version retails in China for a price of CNY 3,999 (~Php28,800 ) while the 8GB/256GB variant costs CNY 4,399 (~Php31,600).
Honor 30 Pro Specs
- Android 10, Magic UI 3.1
- Dual SIM, Dual standby
- 6.57-inches OLED FHD+display, 1080 x 2340 pixels (~392 ppi density)
- 2.86GHz Kirin Kirin 5G octa-core processor
- Mali-G76 MP16
- 8GB RAM
- 128GB/256GB internal storage
- 32-megapixel (f/2.0) +8-megapixel (ultrawide) dual-front cameras
- 40-megapixel (f/1.9) + 8-megapixel (telephoto) + 16-megapixel (ultrawide), LED flash
- Under-display fingerprint scanner
- 5G, 4G LTE
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
- Bluetooth 5.1, A2DP, LE
- GPS with dual-band A-GPS, BDS, GLONASS, GALILEO, NavIC, QZSS
- USB Type-C
- Dimensions: 160.3 x 73.6 x 8.4 mm
- Weight: 186g
- Colors: Emerald Green, Titanium silver, Midnight Black, Icelandic Frost, Neon purple
- 4,000mAh non-removable battery
- 40W fast charging, 27W fast wireless charging, 5W reverse charging
Honor 30
The Honor 30 is arguably the least exciting in the series and it is understandable considering it is also the cheapest.
The smartphone sports a slightly smaller 6.53-inch FHD+ OLED display. Unlike its older siblings, the display only has a punch-hole in the uppermost left corner housing the 32-megapixel front camera. It also features an under-display fingerprint scanner for security.
At the back, there’s a triple camera setup with a 40-megapixel sensor, an 8-megapixel periscope module and another 8-megapixel ultrawide lens.
Despite being not that exciting, the vanilla version of the series has a somehow interesting part. It is the first device to use a Kirin 985 5G chipset. The said processor features a main Cortex-A76 clocked at 2.58GHz with three other Cortex-A76 clocked at 2.40GHz, and Cortex A55 at 1.84GHz.
Its GPU is a Mali-G77, and comes with either 6GB or 8GB of RAM, and 128GB or 256GB internal storage. Just like its siblings, the Honor 30 features a 4,000mAh battery with 40W fast wired charging.
The Honor 30 comes in four similar colors as the Pro version. The 6GB+128GB variant costs CNY 2,999 (~Php21,600) while the 8GB+128GB retails for a price of CNY 3,199 (~Php23,000). On the other hand, the most expensive is the 8GB+256GB version at CNY 3,499 (Php25,000).
Honor has yet to announce whether the Honor 30 series will be available in the Philippines.
Honor 30 Specs
- Android 10, Magic UI 3.1
- Dual SIM, Dual standby
- 6.53-inches OLED display, 1080 x 2400 pixels (~403 ppi density)
- 2.58GHz Kirin 985 5G octa-core processor
- Mali-G77
- 6GB/8GB RAM
- 128GB/256GB internal storage
- 32-megapixel front camera
- 40-megapixel (f/1.8) + 8-megapixel (telephoto) + 8-megapixel (ultrawide), LED flash, HDR
- Under-display fingerprint scanner
- 5G, 4G LTE
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
- Bluetooth 5.1, A2DP, LE
- GPS with dual-band A-GPS, BDS, GLONASS, GALILEO, NavIC, QZSS
- USB Type-C
- Dimensions: 160.3 x 74.2 x 8.1 mm
- Weight: 185g
- Colors: Titanium silver, Emerald Green, Midnight Black, Icelandic Frost, Neon purple
- 4,000mAh non-removable battery
- 40W fast charging, 5W reverse charging