It always shows 2-3C lower temperatures than other apps, and lower UV index as well.
It is currently absolutely scorching outside, yet it suggests adding extra clothing 🫠
Honor's System Manager is suggesting that I uninstall this unused app. Should I?
Hi,
I've had Honor 600 8/256GB for a week, and I wanted to write a review from a user perspective, as there is very little user feedback about the phone. It's only from tech reviewers. So I replaced my Galaxy S23 base and the two key things that I wanted to upgrade were battery size and screen size and comfort since my eyes are sensitive to prolonged screen time. Here are my impressions so far:
Hardware:
- Beautiful design
- Great screen: color calibration is different than Samsung's- colors' tone is on the colder side, which seems more natural and I appreciate it. For eye comfort, I am yet to see if there's truly a difference in eye fatigue.
- Fingerprint sensor is optical on Honor, ultrasonic on Samsung but they perform similarly, nothing to add.
- Cameras: very comparable to S23. I am satisfied with all three cameras picture quality (main, wide and front). It was important to me that this aspect wasn't a downgrade. The only downsides I've noticed, not important for my use cases, is that audio recording is kinda thin, there's no telephoto, no 8K recording. Also, when shooting at 4x crop sometimes the image is upscaled by software ('AI'), which can make fine details like text unintelligible, but when you zoom in on a 2x shot at the same scene, the fine details come out much better due to less software meddling. And finally, I am not very impressed by night shots, considering the large and bright main sensor, but I don't shoot in low light much.
- Speakers: Galaxy S23 has symmetrical stereo speakers and they give clear and full sound at any level. Honor has a smaller speaker on top and a bigger on the bottom. At higher volumes, the sound is comparable, but when you lower it, the sound becomes muffled, thin and loses bass. The asymmetry is noticeable as well. I see that GSMarena gave 600 better loudness score, but I would choose S23 speakers any day.
- Battery: going from 3900mah to 6400mah, there obviously is a difference. I don't game, but I read, scroll social media a lot and use 2 sim cards. It can last me almost 2 days on power saving mode. Heads up: power saving mode can cause delayed notifications.
- Processor: again, I don't game. Everything is super snappy for everyday stuff I don't feel any difference to S23's flagship processor.
- AI button: great for camera shutter and remapping it to whatever is more useful for you :)
Software (this is where things go downhill)
- AI stuff feels unnecessarily thrown into places where it doesn't make sense. For example, simple photo spot healing is labelled 'AI', which is unnecessary and doesn't do any better job than the Snapseed's offline spot healing. I've disabled the majority of AI as I am not a fan other than AI chat bots.
- Aggressive random app installation after the initial setup, until you remove all of them and disable bloatware.
- No system-wide color theming.
- Always on display is not always on. It is more of a 'tap once to display for 10 secs' option. You can't even get it to appear for new notifications. So only the full screen can light up for new notifications.
- Can't choose charging speed: it's always on super charging.
- The whole UI looks soulless, as Honor seems to be heavily focusing on making everything look like iOS and add AI to it, so much that small details like UI consistency, color scheme, animations are an afterthought. It makes me laugh how folder closing animation just slides everything to the left. There is no distinct Honor design language. Samsung One UI blows this out of the water.
- And lastly, my personal huge disappointment: recent apps screen is completely broken on third party launchers. I have two paid launchers Niagara and Smart Launcher. I avoided getting a Xiaomi specifically because I knew that you can use third party launchers only with on screen navigation keys on them. Little did I know that Honor takes this a step further, and you can't use recent app screen on third party launchers with neither gesture navigation nor traditional navigation keys! I could not get this info anywhere online.
Nonetheless, I don't want to end my review on a negative note. If you don't use third party launchers, and simply do not care about software experience that much, Honor 600 is a beautiful premium device with great cameras and battery, and I believe it is worth the money. Ask me anything if you're thinking about buying it.