Honor 10 Lite review: Not a poser, but a performer in midrange segment

Priced at Rs 13,999 for base model with 4GB RAM, the Honor 10 Lite is primarily a camera phone with strengths across areas. Though its design is inspired from yesteryear phones, it doesn't look dated.

Honor, a smartphone brand owned by Chinese technology giant Huawei, recently launched the Honor 10 Lite. Successor of the Honor 9 Lite, the phone has a dewdrop notch screen, dual rear cameras, and gradient glass like design. Being a midrange smartphone, it is powered by Kirin 710 system-on-chip, and features GPU Turbo technology for improved graphic performance.

The Honor 10 Lite seems to be a power packed proposition in the midrange segment. But how does it fare in real life scenarios? Let’s find out:

Design

The Honor 10 Lite has a glass like design that has been predominant in midrange smartphones. It looks impressive, but not different than most of the midrange devices such as the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 (review). The phone’s back is made of laminated layers of polymer with a glossy finish, which looks like glass and has a gradient design. The gradient design on the back reflects different shades of phone’s colour when looked from angles.

On the front, there is a notch screen of a dewdrop design. Unlike the Oppo’s and Vivo’s iteration of waterdrop notch, which has a subtle V-shaped design, the Honor 10 Lite notch is prominent and has a U-shaped design. Like any other notch-based smartphone, the Honor 10 Lite has a bezel at the bottom that encloses an ambient light and proximity sensors.

Though the phone’s design is impressive, it looks close to yesteryear’s designs that might not please everyone’s taste.

Display

The Honor 10 Lite has a 6.21-inch fullHD+ screen, stretched in tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The screen renders sharp and vibrant colours. It also has decent brightness and satisfactory sunlight legibility. However, contrast seems to be out of calibration. The screen does not do well to render blacks properly and the whites look greyish with a blue tint in normal mode.

Camera

The Honor 10 Lite has a dual rear camera and a single front camera. The rear camera module shares a combination of 13-megapixel primary sensor of f/1.8 aperture and a 2MP depth sensor. The front camera has a 24MP sensor of f/2.0 aperture.

Both the camera modules feature artificial intelligence-based automatic scene recognition that adjusts camera settings automatically, based on the scene in the frame. While the front camera is capable of recognising up to eight different scenes, the rear camera module can detect from up to 22 scenes. The front camera also features AI-based facial recognition and light fusion technology for improved selfies.

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