HONOR 70: The review by Techradar

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For Techradar HONOR 70 is a premium smartphon with a budget price tag

HONOR 70 also passed under the lens of Techradar.com which made a critical and truthful review of it. Below is a brief summary of Techradar's opinion on HONOR 70.

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The Honor 70 is an attractive phone with good specs for the price, particularly in the camera, processor and design departments - it feels like a premium phone in most ways. Sure its design may be divisive, but the main drawbacks - like the lack of a telephoto camera or wireless charging - are things you don’t really expect from a mid-range phone anyway.

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We should begin this Honor 70 review with one very simple fact: it was hard to populate its ‘cons’ list. TechRadar’s house style dictates that we need to provide three and it was a challenge to even come up with one.

That’s not to say that the Honor 70 is perfect, but it does all you expect and more for the price. Could it have a telephoto lens, wireless charging, or even a higher-res display? Sure, but at the price, none of those are things you’d really expect.

So, the Honor 70 is a competitive mid-range phone, in fact, it feels a lot more like a flagship phone than most other handsets we see at this price. And that premiumness - whether deserved or otherwise - can’t help but endear you to the device.

The phone has an eye-catching design, with a back that boasts both a reflective diamond pattern and a sparkly effect. Some, particularly those who like their nondescript black phones, might find this a little gauche, but the sheer number of compliments it received while we were testing is hard to ignore.

It also has a curved-edge display, something you rarely see in non-premium phones. That gives the phone both another premium element and also makes it comfortable to hold in the hand.

The screen is just as attractive as the design of the phone - it’s bright and bold, and you’ll be happy watching TV shows or playing games on it.

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We also want to highlight the device’s impressive battery life. If anything, this is the trait that flags the Honor 70 as a mid-range phone instead of a premium one, as we’re so used to seeing pricey phones with disappointing battery lives. The fact that the Honor 70 waltzes through a day of use signposts it as a mid-ranger, but we’re happy with that distinction.

We do need to point out one thing that some could consider an elephant in the room, though we don’t. On paper, the Honor 70 doesn’t seem too different from its predecessor, the Honor 50.

The new phone’s chipset is only the ‘Plus’ version of the older one’s, while the 70’s main camera is lower-res than the 50’s, and the charging speed, screen resolution and front camera are the same on both.

However, the specs list doesn’t actually do justice to the user experience, and the Honor 70 feels like a step up in all departments. The cameras are noticeably better, and the phone feels faster than its older relative.

Despite the fact that the new phone costs more and has a specs list that seems similar to the Honor 50, trust us, the Honor 70 is a worthy step up, and it makes the phone a lot more tempting compared to the stagnant-feeling mid-range market in 2022. The rough edges of the 50 have been sanded down, resulting in one of the best Android phones this year.

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