The Honor 200 trio was recently unveiled in China, and now the Honor 200 and Honor 200 Pro are hitting the global markets, joining the previously announced Honor 200 Lite.
Team Q has prepared an Honor 200 Pro review.
1. The new Honor 200 Pro comes with an updated chipset, a brighter display, and new sensors for the main and telephoto cameras. The device also has an IP65 rating for dust and splash resistance.
2. The Honor 200 Pro comes with a premium 6.78-inch OLED panel with a 1224p resolution, 1 billion colors, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a small cutout for the selfie camera.
3. The smartphone is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chip and offers a lot of RAM and internal storage.
4. The cameras are definitely the most impressive part of the Honor 200 Pro. On the back, there are three of them: a 50MP main camera with a new large sensor, a 50MP telephoto camera with 2.5x zoom, and a 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera with autofocus. For portrait selfies, there is a 50MP camera on the front with an additional 2MP depth sensor.
5. The full specs package is rounded out by a 5,200mAh battery that supports 100W wired charging, 66W wireless charging, and even reverse wireless charging.
6. Both the Honor 90 Pro and Honor 100 Pro use Qualcomm’s latest and most powerful chipset, while the Honor 200 Pro comes with a more optimized “s” Gen 3 version. This is certainly a question mark, especially considering that the 8s Gen 3 is said to be less powerful than the 8 Gen 2 found in the Honor 100 Pro. Further in the article we will try to figure out what the matter is.
Let’s proceed to a more detailed examination of the device.
Delivery set
The Honor 200 Pro comes in a standard box. The package includes a 100W power adapter with a USB-A port, a 6A USB-C cable, and a transparent silicone case. The smartphone also comes with a pre-installed screen protector.
Design
The Honor 200 Pro is a sleek smartphone with a large and uniquely designed camera housing. It has an IP65 rating for dust and splash resistance, which is a first for this series.
There are two features that make the Honor 200 Pro stand out from other curved display smartphones: a small pill-shaped cutout at the front that houses the 50-megapixel selfie camera and depth sensor, and a huge oval camera module on the back that is even larger than the Honor 100 Pro.
The Honor 200 Pro is available in four colors: black, silver, green, and pink. The green and pink models have a two-tone back panel with glossy and matte sections in a “P” shape. The silver variant features a frosty texture, while the black version has a traditional matte finish.
There’s a fast and accurate fingerprint sensor under the display. You probably won’t notice the very thin speaker above the screen, but it’s there and works as part of a stereo system along with the second speaker on the top frame of the Honor 200 Pro. The second speaker is traditionally located at the bottom. There’s also an IR blaster on the top of the device.
The back of the device looks attractive, regardless of the color you choose. The large camera module may be too noticeable for some, but for others, it’ll be a unique feature.
The Honor 200 Pro measures 163.3 x 75.2 x 8.2 mm and weighs 199 grams, which is standard for a smartphone of this size.
The Honor 200 Pro is very comfortable to hold thanks to its curved shape and thin glossy frame. However, without a protective case, it can be a bit difficult to hold.
Display
The Honor 200 Pro features a 6.78-inch OLED display with a resolution of 1224 x 2700 pixels (437 ppi), a refresh rate of 120 Hz, 10-bit color depth, and HDR10 support.
The display supports adaptive PWM dimming at up to 3840 Hz and can reach a peak brightness of up to 4000 nits. However, as tests show, the maximum manual brightness is 614 nits, and the automatic one is 1110 nits. This is lower than many flagship and some mid-budget models. The minimum brightness of white is 2 nits, which is in line with modern standards.
There are three refresh rate modes: Dynamic, High, and Standard. Dynamic mode keeps the refresh rate at 60Hz for most apps. High mode sets the refresh rate to 120Hz where possible. Standard mode locks the refresh rate at 60Hz.
The phone supports HDR10 and Widevine L1 DRM, allowing you to view HDR10 content at least in 1080p.
Battery
The Honor 200 Pro comes with a large 5,200mAh battery that should last a full day of heavy use. This device uses Honor’s first-generation silicon-carbon battery.
In fact, the smartphone is capable of lasting about 11 hours of heavy use, which is average.
The Honor 200 Pro supports 100W wired charging, 66W wireless charging, and reverse wireless charging. The box includes a 100W power adapter and a 6A USB cable, so you don’t need to buy an additional charger. The
included charger restores 42% of the Honor 200 Pro’s battery in 15 minutes, 75% in 30 minutes, and 100% in 45 minutes. The device comes with various battery charging optimizations, such as a charge limit of 80% and a smart option that’s useful for overnight charging.
Performance and Software
The Honor 200 Pro runs on Android 14 with Honor MagicOS v8.0 on top. It provides a full suite of Google apps. Honor promises to release 4 major OS updates and provide security patches for 5 years, which ensures the stability of the future software for the Honor 200 Pro.
The Honor 200 Pro is powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 chipset. The chipset architecture includes 1 main Cortex-X4 core clocked at 3.0 GHz (compared to the higher frequency in the original Snapdragon 8 Gen 3), a cluster of 4 Cortex-A720 cores at 2.8 GHz, and 3 high-efficiency Cortex-A520 cores at 2.0 GHz. The integrated GPU is the Adreno 735, which is a step down from the Adreno 740 found in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset.
While the Cortex-X4 delivers outstanding single-threaded performance, the multi-threaded performance is slightly inferior to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, making the Honor 200 Pro less powerful than its predecessor, the Honor 100.
The Adreno 735 GPU is quite powerful, coming close to the Adreno 740 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but falling behind the newer Adreno 750 in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. This again puts the Honor 200 Pro behind the Honor 100 Pro.
In AnTuTu, the Honor 200 Pro is on par with other Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 devices like the Motorola Edge 50 Ultra and Poco F6.
Overall, the Honor 200 Pro offers excellent performance thanks to one of the most powerful platforms on the market.
The smartphone is available in the following memory configurations: 12/256 GB, 12/512 GB, 16/512 GB, and 16/1 TB.
Camera
The Honor 200 Pro has a promising camera system consisting of a main camera, an ultra-wide-angle lens with autofocus, and a telephoto lens with 2.5x zoom. The front camera also offers high resolution and includes a depth sensor for portrait shots. The
main camera uses a 1/1.3-inch sensor known as the Super Dynamic H9000, which is likely a customized version of the OmniVision OV50H tuned to Honor’s specifications. The sensor has a 1.2μm pixel size, a 4-cell filter array (Quad Bayer), and support for OCL PDAF 2×2. The lens is equipped with stabilization.
The telephoto lens has a Sony IMX 856 sensor with a focal length equivalent to 68mm, an aperture of f/2.4, and is also stabilized.
The ultra-wide-angle camera, although modest in specifications, still supports autofocus, allowing you to use a macro mode for capturing close-ups of objects.
Honor places a lot of emphasis on the portrait mode on the Honor 200 Pro. The company collaborated with renowned Parisian photography studio Harcourt to recreate the unique style of its black and white portraits, although color modes are also available.
The Honor 200 Pro’s main camera takes impressive photos in bright daylight. The detail in images is generally very high, the dynamic range is excellent, the auto white balance is good, and the default saturated colors give photos a nice vibrancy.
The telephoto lens also takes excellent photos with great detail. The dynamic range here is also good, and the color rendition is pleasing, although a bit different from the main camera.
The ultra-wide-angle camera on the Honor 200 Pro may not impress as much as the main and telephoto cameras, but it still takes good photos. The only thing is that photos can look a little dull indoors.
The Honor 200 Pro supports video recording at up to 4K60 resolution when using the main camera and telephoto lens. The ultra-wide and selfie cameras can record video at a maximum resolution of 4K30 (with the ability to record selfies at 1080p60, though the ultra-wide camera doesn’t support 60 fps). The default codec is h.264, but h.265 is also an option. All four cameras support electronic stabilization in video recording. Honor also claims that the main camera uses optical image stabilization (OIS) to support electronic stabilization (EIS), though this can’t be directly verified.
Conclusion
The Honor 200 Pro is an impressive smartphone that fully justifies its price. It has it all – an attractive design, a great display, powerful hardware, long battery life, fast charging and loud speakers. The quality of the cameras and their versatility deserve a special mention, especially the focus on portrait mode, which is admirable.
There are many advantages to the Honor 200 Pro, including extensive software customization options and the iOS-like Magic Capsule interface. Fast wired and wireless charging, as well as reverse wireless charging, are especially appreciated.
