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Battery life
- 3,340 mAh battery survives a day
The Honor 7X comes with a 3,340mAh battery that the company claims will last more than a day. It also has an Ultra Power Saving Mode that will give that last minute juice to the smartphone if any need arises.
Battery life is something that has come a long way this past year with major improvements. It is also one of the first things a user looks at while purchasing the smartphone.
On the Honor 7X, you’ll be glad to know that it stays true to its claim in terms of performance. It’s not game-changing, but considering the phone is powered by a 3,340mAh battery and powers an 18:9 aspect ratio display on the front, it is more than sufficient for daily use.
Occasional boost during the night or midway in the day can also help the phone last longer than a day if you are a power user.
We also missed the fast charging which has become a common feature with smartphones today. Sadly, Honor 7X doesn’t support fast-charging capabilities so the phone won’t get charged up quickly. It’s a bit of a disappointment considering a lot of other mid-range phones now charge much faster than the Honor 7X.
We put the 7X through our standard battery test, which involves playing a Full HD video for 90 minutes from a full charge, at full brightness and with accounts syncing over Wi-Fi, and the phone had 78% battery left at the end of the test.
Camera
- Dual camera setup: 16MP + 2MP
- Good performance in well-lit conditions
Honor 7X features a dual-camera setup on the back. It has a 16-megapixel primary camera and a 2-megapixel depth-sensing camera on the back.
Coming to the performance of the rear camera, the Honor 7X delivers fairly good images in optimal lighting conditions. The camera is snappy most of the times in focusing and capturing pictures at a blazing fast speed. The pictures clicked in good lighting environment came out to be punchy and detailed.
The 2-megapixel lens on board the Honor 7X works in the Portrait mode to achieve bokeh-like images. It essentially identifies the edges of the subject in focus and blurs out everything else.
We found that the 7X struggled to identify the edges of our subject resulting in an uneven blur around our subject. That also has a lot to do with the kind of light the subject is in. The camera also focuses slowly when it switches to the portrait mode.
In low light, the Honor 7X cannot be trusted to capture a good image. Poor lighting is a real problem for the camera, and you can tell it’s not as powerful as the ones on higher-end Honor handsets or flagship phones.
That said it does manage to keep pace with competitors such as the Nokia 6 and the Moto G5S Plus, which are around the same price point.
The front camera is an 8MP shooter that also boasts a Portrait mode feature, which we found worked, but not as well as on the rear camera. The selfie shooter will take decent snaps for social media and the like, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary.
There's a dual-camera setup on the rear of the Honor 7X, with a 16MP sensor doing most of the heavy lifting and then a 2MP sensor to the side of it, which is dedicated to depth-sensing.
We've had a limited time with the camera so far, but taking the odd picture quickly has worked fast and given good results, though not anything mind-blowing just yet.
We'll be sure to play around with the improved wide aperture mode and further depth sensing features for our full review, plus there's the Portrait mode that we can't fully judge just yet.
There's also an 8MP front camera for your selfies. This comes with a few modes for you to play around with and there's a depth of field feature here too. In our time with the phone, the front-facing camera captured some really good selfies in ambient lighting conditions.
Camera samples
