Honor’s 200 Professional is an upper-midranger or perhaps a lesser flagship. It has a beautiful display, good battery life, quick charging, a flexible digicam, and the AI options of Honor’s flagship, Magic 6 Professional. Compromises are minimal. Positive, the processor is a step down from the flagship tier, it’s barely much less water-resistant, the digicam isn’t fairly nearly as good, and the 200 Professional misses out on safe face unlock, but it surely presents a fairly comparable expertise at a way more inexpensive value (£700 within the UK or 800 euros in Europe). It isn’t formally bought within the US.
Honor targeted on the portrait prowess of the 200 Professional within the unveiling, speaking up its partnership with Paris-based Studio Harcourt (a well-known portrait studio). However, like lots of the 200 Professional’s AI options, these items feels a bit gimmicky. The true purpose to have a look at the 200 Professional is the {hardware} you get for the worth. Simply remember that Honor’s software program may be jarring, and the design shouldn’t be for everybody.
Traditional or Outdated
Whereas the Honor 200 Professional looks like a cultured cellphone, the design offers me grandmother vibes. I acknowledge this may simply be me, however one thing concerning the cameo brooch-shaped digicam module (supposedly impressed by Gaudi’s “Casa Milá”) and the pale inexperienced (Ocean Cyan), swirly, mother-of-pearl end has me picturing Grandma fishing it out of her purse. There’s nothing mistaken with the design, and I really feel dangerous dunking on an try to do one thing totally different with the digicam module, but it surely’s simply not for me.
The 200 Professional is gentle, slim, and curves back and front into the aluminum body. It is very comfy to carry. However I’ve grown uninterested in curved screens and the inevitable unintended touches. I’ve no different complaints concerning the 6.78-inch AMOLED display. The two,700 x 1,224-pixel decision is lots sharp, the refresh price goes as much as 120 Hz, and it is shiny sufficient to learn outside (Honor claims 4,000 nits of peak brightness, however that sounds optimistic). The sound high quality of the stereo audio system can also be spectacular.
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The fingerprint sensor on the backside of the display proved quick and responsive. I’m not eager on the double cutout for the front-facing digicam, and there’s no 3D time-of-flight sensor, so the 200 Professional doesn’t boast the safe face unlock of its dearer sibling. The 200 Professional scores an IP65 score, which means rain and spills are in all probability tremendous, however you need to keep away from submersion.
The 200 Professional depends on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 processor, which is meant for the midrange. Considerably confusingly, it’s a step down from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, however I doubt many people will really feel an absence of processing energy. The 200 Professional felt snappy, principally protecting its cool whereas working video games like Asphalt 9: Legends. Honor has generously appointed the 200 Professional with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.
Portrait Images
The Honor 200 Professional has a triple-lens most important digicam that mixes a 50-megapixel most important shooter with a pretty big 1/1.3-inch picture sensor, a 50-megapixel telephoto lens with a custom-made Sony IMX 856 sensor able to 2.5X optical zoom, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide that may additionally deal with macro pictures. Honor made a giant deal of this cellphone’s portrait chops, developed with the assistance of Studio Harcourt. True to that theme, there’s a 50-megapixel front-facing digicam with a 2-megapixel lens for depth sensing.
Honor has been fast to roll AI options into its telephones, and the 200 Professional has its “AI Portrait Engine” inbuilt, which is meant to benefit from shadow and lightweight that will help you nail your required inventive fashion with portrait pictures. There’s even a Harcourt Portrait mode within the digicam app that permits you to select between vibrant, colour, or basic (black-and-white) kinds, but it surely solely works with the principle digicam, not the front-facing selfie digicam.
