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Irish Examiner
22-05-2025
- Irish Examiner
Honor 400 Pro review: AI-powered photography and flagship features at a mid-range price
The Honor 400 Pro is a mid-ranger that focuses on AI-enhanced photography, powerful hardware, and a sleek design that rivals flagship models. It offers impressive value, but it's not without minor compromises. Design and build The 400 Pro sports a micro-curved design that offers a balanced blend of aesthetics and comfort, giving you a flat-feeling screen without the sharp edges. The finishes, particularly in Luna Grey and Midnight Black, look and feel premium, giving off flagship vibes. At 205g and 8.1mm thick, the 400 Pro is reasonably light, slim, and easy to handle without sacrificing performance. It's also built to endure, with IP68 and IP69 water and dust resistance and SGS-certified drop protection. After using the device daily for the last few weeks, I found it can handle everyday wear and tear, even a short drop on my kitchen tile floor. The glass back resists fingerprints surprisingly well, thanks to the silky smooth frosted texture, though a protective case is still recommended for peace of mind. Display The 6.7-inch AMOLED display delivers crisp visuals at 460 PPI, with a smooth 120Hz refresh rate and up to 5,000 nits of peak brightness, bright enough to stay legible under direct sunlight. Thanks to built-in AI enhancements, contrast, colour saturation, and brightness automatically adjust for optimal viewing. In real-world use, I never needed to adjust any of the display controls, including brightness, manually. The screen includes multiple TÜV Rheinland-certified protection modes and a unique 360° motion sickness relief feature, making it one of the most eye-friendly displays in its class. Hardware performance Under the hood, the Honor 400 Pro is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, offering substantial upgrades in both speed and efficiency. While this isn't the latest Snapdragon chipset, app launches are fast, multitasking is seamless, and AI-powered features run fluidly. Gaming performance is also solid. Frame rates remain consistent even during high-demand gameplay, helped by Honor's AI Game Thread Optimiser and the full-stack graphics engine borrowed from its Magic series. Charging and battery life The phone packs a 5,300mAh battery that charges rapidly and is compatible with the Honor 100W wired SuperCharge, which can bring it to full in under 30 minutes. It also supports Honor's 50W wireless charging. However, no charger is included in the box, so to achieve those high charging speeds, you'll need to purchase compatible adapters separately. In general, I could get a full day of use on a single charge, and often well into the evening of the second day. Honor's steady-carbon battery technology promises to retain 80% of its health after 1,200 charge cycles, translating to over four years of daily use without noticeable degradation. Cameras The Honor 400 Pro sets itself apart in photography. The 200MP main camera, with its large 1/1.4-inch sensor (f/1.9), delivers stunning detail and clarity, aided by optical and electronic stabilisation. Thanks to AI enhancements, the main lens also handles telephoto-like tasks, delivering sharp results even when digitally zoomed. The 50MP telephoto lens offers up to 50x zoom, and in many cases, it holds up remarkably well against premium flagships. However, while zooming up to 20x produces excellent results, as you approach 50x, detail diminishes, the AI takes over more aggressively, and image quality becomes less predictable. The ultra-wide and selfie cameras, at 12MP and 50MP respectively, are equally capable, rounding out a well-balanced imaging setup. Overall image quality is excellent, though there is a noticeable drop compared to the top-tier flagship camera phones on the market. AI features Many of the latest phones, including the 400 Pro, now come equipped with Google's AI-driven tools, collectively offering powerful enhancements that benefit everyday users. However, Honor has added some of its own features, including motion-sensing capture, which intelligently predicts the perfect moment to take a photo. Portrait mode sharpens facial features and simulates natural bokeh with a quality that rivals studio portraits. There's also a suite of creative tools that leverage Honor's on-device AI, including automatic background replacement, reflection removal, and object erasing, which is ideal for travel photos or social content. For video, Honor incorporates generative models from Google's Gemini to enable on-device video creation and editing, turning the phone into a compact content creation machine. Software Honor has committed to six years of Android OS and security updates for the Honor 400 Series, matching the long-term support seen from top-tier rivals. Honor devices will update to Android 16 in 2025, bringing advanced AI features developed with Google. Honor's close partnership with Google offers early access to new Android versions. Last year, it rolled out Android 15 Beta early; this year, Android 16 Beta 3 is already running on the Honor Magic7 Pro. It's a strong indication that Honor wants to be seen as a serious player in Android longevity and innovation. Verdict The Honor 400 Pro excels where it matters most: performance, battery life, and especially photography. Its AI features genuinely add value, enhancing the overall user experience. While the software interface could use a bit more refinement, the phone has few drawbacks when weighed against everything it gets right. €799 - Three, Harvey Norman and Tesco Mobile with availability in June.
Phone Arena
12-05-2025
- Business
- Phone Arena
Tremendous new deal makes the jumbo-sized Lenovo Idea Tab Pro (with pen) simply irresistible
If you're having trouble choosing the right device for you from Lenovo's expansive budget-friendly tablet portfolio, this hot new deal on one of the company's latest Android giants could make your decision a total walk in the park. Released just a little over a month ago at a reasonable price of $389.99, the 12.7-inch Lenovo Idea Tab Pro is incredibly available for less than three Benjamins now. For an undoubtedly limited time, you can use a special "TABLETSAVE" e-coupon on the device manufacturer's official US website and end up paying $296.99. $93 off (24%) Wi-Fi Only, 128GB Storage, 8GB RAM, 12.7-Inch LCD Screen with 2944 x 1840 Pixel Resolution and 144Hz Refresh Rate Technology, Android 14, MediaTek Dimensity 8300 Processor, 10,200mAh Battery, 45W Charging Support, Quad JBL Speakers with Dolby Atmos, 13MP Rear-Facing Camera, 8MP Front-Facing Camera, Luna Grey Color, Lenovo Tab Pen Plus Included, TABLETSAVE E-Coupon Required Buy at Lenovo That's lower than the recently reduced price of $329.99, and the latest and greatest Idea Tab Pro discount makes it virtually impossible to recommend the purchase of something like the Galaxy Tab S10 FE or Tab S10 FE+ right now. Samsung's newest mid-range slates are available for a whopping $500 and $650 in 10.9 and 13.1-inch screen sizes respectively, and while they do hold a number of key strengths, it's hard to understand why anyone would ever favor them over Lenovo's value-packed 12.7-incher. Believe it or not, your 297 bucks will get you a handy Lenovo Tab Pen Plus in addition to the affordable Lenovo tablet itself, which cancels the stylus advantage the Tab S10 FE duo has over the best Apple iPads out there, for instance. What's perhaps even more impressive about the steeply discounted Idea Tab Pro is that its IPS LCD panel is not only large and sharp, but silky smooth too, supporting 144Hz refresh rate technology for an exceptionally fluid mobile gaming experience. Then you've got a hefty 10,200mAh battery equipped with blazing fast 45W charging capabilities that promises to "last all day", keeping you both busy and entertained during your travels, daily commute to the office, and even at your actual workplace. That wouldn't be possible without a reasonably frugal (and respectably powerful) MediaTek Dimensity 8300 processor, and somehow, the Lenovo Idea Tab Pro also manages to be remarkably stylish, measuring a slender 6.9mm. Because there's no such thing as a perfect tablet (especially in the sub-$300 price bracket), the long-term software support could definitely prove to be a problem, as Lenovo can only promise two major OS upgrades (on top of Android 14 ) and four years of security patches. Small inconvenience for certain potential buyers? Probably. Absolute dealbreaker at $296.99? I don't think so.
