It has been more than a year since Honor announced its departure from Huawei in November last year. For Glory, the year 2021 that is about to pass is an extraordinary year, and after overcoming many difficulties, this brand new company is back on track. Entering the second half of this year, the pace of new product releases of Honor has been significantly faster, including Magic, digital and other major product series have ushered in updates.
Honor celebrated its anniversary just before 2021 drew to a close, bringing with it the new Honor X30. Although the naming conventions, the Honor X30 and the Honor X30i and the Honor X30 MAX released earlier are more similar, but regardless of the ID design or software and hardware configuration, where it is seen or not seen, it is obviously different from the above two models.
"Big screen", there are also large batteries
The first impression I had on the Honor X30 was that the screen was large, both physically and visually. Its physical screen size is 6.81 inches, even larger than the screen of the Honor flagship. While enlarging the screen size, the Honor X30 also has a very good sense of visual immersion.
As you can see, the upper, left and right borders of this phone are very narrow, the width of the left and right borders is only 1.05 mm, the upper border is controlled at 1.35 mm, and the overall screen on the front accounts for 94% of such a good level. In addition, when the large screen is used at close range, the visual focus of the human eye will be slightly higher, which will give you a feeling of being full of screens.
In fact, after the bright screen saw the small opening above, I once thought it was an OLED screen, but in fact, it was not, this time honor for the X30 equipped with an LCD screen, the actual picture display is delicate enough. At the same time, its screen also supports 120Hz refresh rate (support dynamic refresh rate adjustment) and 240Hz touch sample rate, sliding smoothness and chirality are no problem.
In terms of eye health, honor X30 has passed the German Rheinland low blue light eye care certification, such as eye protection mode, e-book mode and dark mode and some of the more common eye protection solutions are also available. Another point is that this phone is used for a straight screen, usually playing games or lying on the bed to brush vibrato, there is no need to worry about the problem of accidental touch.
Of course, due to the LCD screen, it does not use the screen fingerprint scheme, but in the past two years, many mid-range mobile phone products are more common side power / fingerprint two-in-one physical buttons. In practice, the unlocking speed and recognition accuracy are satisfactory. After the groove treatment, it will be more convenient when blind operation.
Probably because the screen size is relatively large, Honor has matched a 4800mAh battery for it, matching the flagship with the same 66W super fast charge. Measured, using the original wired charger for 5 minutes, you can charge from 2% to 19%, 10 minutes can charge to 35%, 15 minutes can charge to 50%, and it takes about 43 minutes to charge to 100%.
From the charging line diagram we drew above, we can see that the charging speed of the Honor X30 in the first 40 minutes remains at a relatively fast level, and the overall charging time is well controlled. In addition, Honor also made a smart charging mode for this, the mobile phone will learn the user's work and rest time and use habits to adjust the charging program, to achieve the purpose of improving battery life.
A variety of colors are available, and the camera design is special
Turn over to look at the back of the fuselage. The Honor X30 is available in four color versions, namely Night Black (black), Charm Sea Blue (blue), Morning Dawn Gold (Gold) and Titanium Silver (Silver). One of the more special is that its space silver version is not only the standard version, but also the star ring version.
As far as the Honor X30 in our hands is concerned, its fuselage cover actually adopts a gradient color design, and as the angle of light changes, it can present different color effects, and the actual color effect is still quite special. The surface of the back cover is made of AG matte effect, which actually feels very delicate to the touch and has a good anti-fingerprint ability.
The biggest highlight on the back is the camera section. On this phone, Honor has introduced a ring design similar to the flagship series, which is more brand-specific. In addition, its camera area has added a circle of bright decorations around the periphery, in addition to improving the delicacy of the mobile phone to a certain extent, but also making the connection transition between the camera and the back cover appear relatively natural.
In terms of grip, the Honor X30 has a body length of 166.1 mm, a width of 75.8 mm and a thickness of 8.05 mm. Considering that the body volume is relatively large, and a 4800mAh battery is also stuffed inside, I originally thought that its weight would most likely exceed the 200-gram mark. Some minor surprises are that Honor weighs it down to 189 grams.
Good weight control, after adding the cover on both sides of the left and right sides of the certain arc treatment, so that the actual grip of the Honor X30 is much lighter than expected. However, it should be reminded that the size of this mobile phone is indeed not small, and small-handed users will have a little difficulty in holding. Before starting, it is recommended to go to the offline store to experience it first, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble in the later stage.
Enough good camera and performance
In terms of selfies, the front camera of the Honor X30 is 16 million pixels, f/2.45 aperture, supports night selfie, portrait mode and video mode provide 10 levels of beauty adjustment, and also has a built-in green, hard image, medium gray, denim, blues, halo, nostalgia, morning light and other filters to choose from.
The rear camera features a 48-megapixel triple camera system. Among them, the main camera is 48 million pixels, f/1.8 aperture, honor X30 micro-film mode also added punch card, party, ancient style and other shooting templates. The following is a real-life sample without any post-processing:
In fact, there is not much to say in the image part, and 48 million pixels is still enough to meet the needs of daily shooting. In terms of core hardware configuration, Honor X30 adopts Snapdragon 695 SoC, which supports intelligent operation and storage expansion technology, which can improve the application cold start speed and background survival rate to a certain extent.
Honor's previously acclaimed GPU Turbo X technology and Link Turbo X network acceleration engine are still retained. GPU Turbo X technology is a great way to ensure smooth gameplay, and the Link Turbo X network acceleration engine allows the phone to automatically switch to the best network state.
When you use the Honor X30 to play popular mobile games such as League of Legends or Glory of Kings, you can run smoothly. Meeting the needs of everyday use is not a big problem. Oh yes, the official said that this product has been tested for aging, through the mobile phone's large file filling, fragmentation process, static data filling, heavy load test and other daily use scenarios of the simulation, simulating the user's use of three years after the product aging state, can do 3 years without stuttering.
Honor X30 is relatively easy to summarize, it has the same price segment of the competitors in the previous screen level, the intuitive visual experience after the bright screen and visual display effect are good, 4800mAh large battery with 66W flash charge can alleviate the problem of battery life anxiety very well. In addition, the ring camera matrix is also helpful for improving the overall sense of grade. More importantly, Honor X30 continues to continue the X series of high-quality DNA, starting from the real needs of users, adding intelligent fast charging and anti-counterfeiting security chips to the fast charging, achieving 3 years of non-caton in the system, reducing the cost of use for users.
Overall, the Honor X30 is a mid-range 5G phone that looks "good" and has a high-quality experience. In terms of price, the 6GB+128GB version is 1499 yuan, the 8GB+128GB version is 1699 yuan, the 8GB+256GB version is 1999 yuan, and the 12GB+256GB version is 2299 yuan, which is officially on sale on December 16.