Honor sold 10 million thousand-yuan machines, is it really because it looks like Huawei?

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2024-05-20 11:41Posted in Zhejiang Digital Creators

Here's the thing, when Tony went to participate in the Honor event before, not only did Glory's friends tell me that the X50 was sold out, but even the media colleagues he knew were saying the same.

Later, I checked that in the third quarter of 2023 alone, X50 sold 3.876 million units, and two days before the draft came out, I also saw Honor CEO Jiang Hairong say: X50 has sold 10 million units in 10 months since it was launched.

To be honest, I really haven't seen a thousand-dollar machine that sells so hard in the past two years...

You may not know what this concept is, but I'll compare it to the more comprehensive and cost-effective Redmi Note 13 series in this price range, which sold 3.2 million units in the first four months of its launch (domestic data) - note that this figure counts the sales of the Standard, Pro and Pro+.

In other words, the sales of a single model of the Honor X50 surpassed the three models of the Redmi Note 13 series...

Eh, then I'm very curious, this thousand-yuan machine market, there are blue and green factories with a large number of channels offline, and there is the ultimate cost-effective red rice online, how does this Glory X50 compete with these companies for meat and eat?

With this problem, we also bought one back before, and it was the cheapest 8+128 beggars version (now sold for 1299 yuan), and after using it for a while, Tony figured out its idea of building a machine.

Don't sell off, let's talk about the conclusion first:

Honor X50 This time it is equivalent to "precise castration" to play clearly, abandoning performance, charging and peripheral configuration, and spending the cost on appearance, feel, screen, battery life and durability, for offline middle-aged and elderly users, or users who want to use it as a backup machine, these things are a good pain point.

Let's start with its shortcomings.

Among the mobile phones in the early 1,000s,GloryX50The peripheral configuration is really a bit insufficient,It still uses a single speaker and a rotor motor that will "buzz",As for what infrared remote control、Multi-function NFC。。。 It doesn't have any of them.

How to say it, I know that Glory is picking costs, but cutting the peripheral configuration like this is really a bit too picky.

Especially under the backdrop of the Redmi Note 13 Pro, it seems that the Honor's knife method is a bit too ruthless - because the starting price of Redmi is 100 more expensive than the Honor, but the dual speakers, X-axis linear motor, infrared remote control, and NFC are all arranged for you.

Also, the Honor X50 is doing the same thing where you can't see it: the WiFi is cut into a single antenna, and when connected to the same WiFi, it has a maximum connection speed of only 433Mbps.

Although this won't have much impact on scenes such as scrolling through TikTok and watching Bilibili, you can feel that its network speed is really slow when downloading things.

I specifically tested it: the Honor X50 downloads were more than 7x slower and uploads were 2x slower than the Redmi Note 12 Turbo, which supports WiFi 6 and doesn't castrate dual antennas, on the same office WiFi.

And it's not just the internet speed that's slower than the Honor X50, it's also slower to charge.

The charging power of the previous generation X40 is still 40W, and this generation X50 directly shrunk to 35W with a mouthful of "toothpaste gasp", and considering that the battery of the previous generation was only 5100mAh, and this generation upgraded the battery to 5800mAh, so it is equivalent to a reverse upgrade in terms of charging experience.

It takes 15 minutes to charge from 1% to 20%, and 30 minutes to 37%, so it takes about 1 and a half hours to fully charge.

This blood recovery speed is the bottom of the current thousand-yuan machine, and the fruit 15 (90 minutes full) belongs to the same level - so, everyone should understand (dog head)。。。

In terms of performance, the Honor X50 is weaker than the Redmi Note 13 Pro mentioned earlier, after all, the X50 is equipped with Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, and the Note 13 Pro is Snapdragon 7s Gen 2.

To put it simply, these two U's belong to the same ancestry, and they are both cut by Qualcomm on the basis of the previous Snapdragon 778G.

Compared with 778G, the CPU architecture of 6 Gen 1 and 7s Gen 2 has not changed, and it is still the design of "4 A78 large cores + 4 A55 small cores", but the process has become Samsung 4nm, and the GPU has also been upgraded to Adreno 710, but the frequency is different.

In terms of running scores, the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1's single-core and multi-core performance will be a little behind the 7s Gen 1.

So for a phone like the Honor X50, don't think about playing some heavy mobile games with it.

Like Genshin Impact Sumeru City running the map for 15 minutes,Looking at an average frame of 42.8It's okay, right?,But it's not the same thing at all when you actually play.,Picture stuttering、Frame drops are common.,And the highest picture quality is only 640P,The experience is really average.。。。

As for the game that eats more GPUs like Star Rail, it's not to mention, GPUs are running and smoking.,The average frame is only 22 frames.,Not even 30 frames of e-sports frame rate.,It's really just a fun thing to use for everyone.。。。

However, it's still okay to play games that don't eat performance like Honor of Kings, and in the extreme image quality +90 fps mode, its average frame rate can have 89 fps, and the frame rate is almost a straight line throughout the whole process, so it's no problem to play in the dark.

Oh yes, when it comes to performance, Tony has to mention one more thing: when installing the app and testing the game, I can obviously feel that the installation speed and game reading bar of the Honor X50 are very slow, and later I found out that the 8GB RAM version we bought was still using UFS 2.2.

"Good guy, it's a hidden knife again... ”

OK~ After talking about the shortcomings, let's talk about what the Honor X50 did right.

First of all, I think the most important thing is the appearance, the offline market is different from the online, the appearance is often the priority over the configuration.

There is not only one manufacturer who has told us this before: offline machines must sell well, and the appearance must make customers who enter the store fall in love at first sight, otherwise people may not come back to buy after leaving the store.

And the appearance of the glory X50 is really deceptive when placed offline,Look at the Mate40 from afar,Look closely。。。 "Beggar's Edition Mate 40".

To be honest, this design may be scolded if it is used by other families, but the glory will only be ridiculed for being "broken" with the old father. . .

And the offline middle-aged and elderly users who will buy the X50 may really be rushing to this Mate40 with the same design, after all, until now there will still be some people who think: buying Honor is buying Huawei.

Of course, there is another point that cannot be ignored, that is, the feel and texture of the 1,000-yuan machine made by Glory are really good.

The fuselage is quite thin and light (185g heavy, 7.98mm thick), plus the left and right sides have made arc transitions, it is quite comfortable to hold with one hand, one word: run.

And this plain leather material has no sense of cheapness, and it really doesn't lose the plain leather back cover of the flagship model I used before.

Looking at the screen again, the Honor X50 uses a 1.5K type drill row domestic screen.

In terms of brightness, it can be up to 600 nits for manual and up to 1000 nits for auto-excitation.

In terms of eye protection, there is 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming at low brightness, DC-like dimming at medium and high brightness, plus hardware-level anti-blue light, which basically fills up the eye protection function for you.

There is one thing to say, as far as this screen parameter was put in the past, it was only possible to see it at the 2000+ price point, and Honor put it on a 1,000 yuan mobile phone, which is indeed at the level of random killing.

Of course, Tony also welcomes other friends to roll the screen on the thousand-dollar machine.

And if you really want to roll the screen, then it is recommended to roll the battery by the way, because the large-capacity battery of the Honor X50 is also one of the reasons why it can eat well in the offline market - when the model of the same price is still using a 5000mAh battery, Honor directly stuffed the X50 with a 5800mAh large battery.

And for offline users, the long battery life of the mobile phone is too important.

I don't know if the elders in your family are like this, as far as the phenomenon I have observed, the elders attach much more importance to large batteries than charging, because they often forget to charge their mobile phones, this situation I think is the inertia of the machine left over from the era of feature phones...

So I think Honor should have found this point, so it rolled up a big battery on the thousand-yuan machine.

And after our 3-hour battery life test, the Honor X50 still has 67% of the remaining power, considering that its audience is not particularly frequent with the phone, I think there is no problem with daily use of two days and one charge.

The last thing I think the Honor X50 did right is the drop resistance of the rolled body.

Because for many people, it's not that a 1,000-dollar mobile phone can't be repaired after it falls, but that repairing the mobile phone itself is very troublesome, and it is best that the mobile phone can resist manufacturing and is not easy to break if it falls, which can save a lot of trouble.

At that time, when Honor released the X50, it seized the point of falling resistance to publicity.

As for how resistant the X50 is, the famous crash area UP main new review technology has also fallen before, and the saving is: they borrowed a professional drop machine of 100,000 yuan, and also went to the devil's level 1.8-meter four-corner drop test, but it just didn't break...

Well, speaking of which, you should all have a general understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of this machine.

In my opinion, the reason for the success of the Honor X50 is that Honor has played the offline gameplay clearly, giving priority to meeting the needs of offline users, making the appearance, screen, battery life and durability that they value the most into a long board, and then doing the knife method from the places of performance, charging and peripheral configuration, and controlling the cost budget.

Pile up the material in the most eye-catching place, cut it hard in the invisible place, Glory can indeed be called the master of the offline machine...

As for the purchase advice, I don't think it's necessary to buy a phone that has been released for 10 months at this juncture, because the Honor X60 may be released in two or three months.

And if I'm not wrong in my prediction, the new thousand-yuan machines of the next friends will also be rolled up according to the path of the glory X50, so let's be a waiting party, and the thousand-yuan machine market will also have a good show.

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