Its a season of new smartphones. This time, we have two new budget releases from Honor — meet the Honor Play 4T and 4T Pro.
Let’s start with the Honor Play 4T Pro. As you can see, the Huawei sub-brand is following the design queue from its cousins. The quad-cameras on the back are placed in a rectangular camera bump, similar to the Huawei P40 series.
The triple-camera setup consists of a 48-megapixel primary shooter, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide snapper, and the obligatory 2-megapixel depth sensor.
There’s a 16-megapixel selfie camera on the front, sitting in a waterdrop notch on top of a 6.3-inch FHD+ AMOLED screen.
Under the hood, there’s a powerful Kirin 810 processor, with an option between 6GB and 8GB of RAM. Keeping the lights on is a 4,000mh battery with 22.5W fast charging support.
The Honor Play 4T has a price of CNY1,499 (~Php10,800) for the 6GB/128GB model, while the 8GB/128GB version is at CNY1,699 (~Php12,200).
Honor Play 4T Pro Specs
- Android 9 Pie, Magic UI 2.1
- Dual SIM, Dual Standby
- 6.3-inch FHD+ OLED punch-hole display, 2400 x 1080 pixel resolution, ~418ppi
- Kirin 810 octa-core processor
- 6GB/8GB RAM
- Mali-G52 GPU
- 128GB internal storage, expandable via NM card up to 256GB
- 16-megapixel front camera, f/20
- 48-megapixel (f/1.8) + 8-megapixel (ultra-wide, f/2.4) + 2-megapixel rear cameras, LED flash
- 4G LTE
- WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band
- Bluetooth 5.0
- GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- Headphone jack
- USB Type-C
- Dimensions: 157.4 x 73.2 x 7.75mm
- Weight: 165g
- Colors: Black, Green, White
- 4,000mAh non-removable battery
If the Pro model is too expensive for you, there’s also the vanilla Honor Play 4T to check out.
Unlike the former, this one uses a 6.3-inch HD+ IPS panel. Since it’s no longer an OLED screen, the in-display fingerprint scanner was replaced with a rear-mounted one. On the upside, it has a cleaner punch-hole cut out for the 8-megapixel selfie camera.
We have the same primary and depth sensors on the back, but the ultra-wide snapper was removed to cut costs.
Honor also compromised the processor to a Kirin 710A and stripped the Honor Play 4T of fast charging and USB Type-C port, although it still has the same 4,000mAh battery.
The Honor Play 4T has a price of CNY1,199 (~Php8,600). Their pricing and availability outside China is yet to be announced.
Honor Play 4T Specs
- Android 10, Magic UI 2.1
- Dual SIM, Dual Standby
- 6.3-inch FHD+ IPS display, 1560 x 720 pixel resolution, ~269ppi
- Kirin 710A octa-core processor
- 6GB RAM
- Mali-G51 GPU
- 128GB internal storage, expandable via microSD up to 512GB
- 8-megapixel front camera, f/20
- 48-megapixel (f/1.8) + 2-megapixel rear cameras, LED flash
- 4G LTE
- WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth 5.0
- GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- Headphone jack
- microUSB
- Dimensions: 159.81 x 76.13 x 8.13mm
- Weight: 176g
- Colors: Black, Green
- 4,000mAh non-removable battery