Honor’s 200 Professional is an upper-midranger or possibly a lesser flagship. It has a stunning display, good battery life, quick charging, a flexible digicam, and the AI options of Honor’s flagship, Magic 6 Pro. 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 pretty much as good, and the 200 Professional misses out on safe face unlock, nevertheless it provides a fairly related expertise at a way more reasonably priced worth (£700 within the UK or 800 euros in Europe). It isn’t formally bought within the US.
Honor centered 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 most of the 200 Professional’s AI options, these items feels a bit gimmicky. The actual motive to have a look at the 200 Professional is the {hardware} you get for the value. Simply bear in mind that Honor’s software program could be jarring, and the design shouldn’t be for everybody.
Basic or Outdated
Whereas the Honor 200 Professional appears like a cultured telephone, the design offers me grandmother vibes. I acknowledge this would possibly 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 incorrect with the design, and I really feel dangerous dunking on an try to do one thing completely different with the digicam module, nevertheless it’s simply not for me.
The 200 Professional is gentle, slim, and curves back and front into the aluminum body. It is very snug to carry. However I’ve grown uninterested in curved screens and the inevitable unintentional 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 rate goes up to 120 Hz, and it is vibrant 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 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 costlier sibling. The 200 Professional scores an IP65 rating, that means rain and spills are in all probability positive, however you must 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 of us will really feel a scarcity of processing energy. The 200 Professional felt snappy, principally conserving its cool whereas operating video games like Asphalt 9: Legends. Honor has generously appointed the 200 Professional with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.
Portrait Pictures
The Honor 200 Professional has a triple-lens important digicam that mixes a 50-megapixel important shooter with a reasonably large 1/1.3-inch picture sensor, a 50-megapixel telephoto lens with a personalized Sony IMX 856 sensor able to 2.5X optical zoom, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide that may additionally deal with macro pictures. Honor made an enormous deal of this telephone’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 light-weight that can assist you nail your required creative fashion with portrait photographs. There may be even a Harcourt Portrait mode within the digicam app that allows you to select between vibrant, colour, or basic (black-and-white) kinds, nevertheless it solely works with the principle digicam, not the front-facing selfie digicam.