Honor has introduced the 400 and 400 Professional, two midrange telephones that launch at the moment within the UK and Europe. They’re capable-looking handsets in loads of respects, however stand out largely for the assure of six years of software program help, bested solely by Google’s Pixel 9A for the value.
In equity, at £699.99 / €799 (round $900), the 400 Professional is mostly a flagship in its personal proper. It’s powered by 2023’s Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, and boasts a 6.7-inch AMOLED display, IP68 and 69 rankings, and sizable 5,300mAh battery (with a fair bigger 6,000mAh cell exterior Europe). The triple digicam is spectacular too, with a 200-megapixel major shooter, plus an ultrawide and telephoto.
I’m a much bigger fan of the common 400 although, and never simply because at £399.99 / €499 (round $560) it’s considerably cheaper. It has straight sides, moderately than the curved edges of the Professional mannequin, and mixed with a smaller 6.5-inch show it’s far more comfy to make use of.
The 400 ships with the identical major and ultrawide cameras because the Professional, solely giving up on the telephoto. Its IP65 water-resistance is rather less complete, and the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 gained’t supply fairly as a lot energy, however the mixture of the identical massive battery and a smaller display ought to give this nice endurance. The principle draw back for me could be giving up the Professional’s wi-fi charging.
Importantly, Honor’s dedication to 6 years of OS model updates and 6 years of safety patches is identical for each telephones, and will see them by means of to Android 21 in 2031. That matches Samsung’s promise for its Galaxy A56, and falls only one 12 months in need of the seven years assured for the Pixel 9A. Each 400 telephones arrive working Honor’s MagicOS and Android 15, and embrace a novel AI image-to-video function powered by Google’s Veo 2 mannequin, at the moment not accessible on another telephones.
Whereas I’m not totally offered on the 400 Professional’s near-flagship price ticket, the bottom 400 appears like a compelling different to the Pixel 9A and Galaxy A56. It’s cheaper than both, ought to final for about as lengthy, and bests each on fairly a number of specs.
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