Honor’s 200 Professional is an upper-midranger or possibly a lesser flagship. It has a beautiful display screen, 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-proof, the digicam isn’t fairly nearly as good, and the 200 Professional misses out on safe face unlock, however it provides a fairly related expertise at a way more reasonably priced value (£700 within the UK or 800 euros in Europe). It’s not formally offered 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 worth. Simply bear in mind that Honor’s software program may be jarring, and the design shouldn’t be for everybody.
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Whereas the Honor 200 Professional looks like a cultured telephone, the design offers me grandmother vibes. I acknowledge this would possibly simply be me, however one thing in regards to 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 unhealthy dunking on an try to do one thing totally different with the digicam module, however it’s simply not for me.
The 200 Professional is gentle, slim, and curves back and front into the aluminum body. It’s totally comfy to carry. However I’ve grown bored with curved screens and the inevitable unintentional touches. I’ve no different complaints in regards to the 6.78-inch AMOLED display screen. The two,700 x 1,224-pixel decision is lots sharp, the refresh rate goes up to 120 Hz, and it is shiny sufficient to learn outdoor (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 screen 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 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, largely preserving 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 primary digicam that mixes a 50-megapixel primary 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 images. 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 will help you nail your required inventive fashion with portrait pictures. There may be even a Harcourt Portrait mode within the digicam app that allows you to select between vibrant, coloration, or traditional (black-and-white) kinds, however it solely works with the primary digicam, not the front-facing selfie digicam.
