Huawei Hodor 4X Review – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

A Normal Person’s Review on Huawei Honor 4X

What? Huawei Honor 4X

Where to buy? Online or the mall, everywhere

How much? 7,990php

I love smart phones. I find it’s one of the best inventions ever made. It connects us and let us do anything, anywhere. But I have an unusually bad kind of luck on owning them (trying to change it!) It’s either I lose it or I break it. So I replace my phones 2-3x a year not because I’m a gastadora but because I have to. Just like how I broke my Xperia Z3 Compact when it fell down the toilet (it is NOT waterproof as they are claiming it to be). I needed to be connected FAST so I was on the lookout for an affordable smart phone that is less than 10,000 pesos, has a decent camera, and great battery life. 

Oh and why I call it the “Hodor Phone”

NETWORK	Technology	GSM / HSPA / LTE

LAUNCH	Announced	2014, October
	Status	Available. Released 2014, October

BODY	Dimensions	152.9 x 77.2 x 8.7 mm (6.02 x 3.04 x 0.34 in)
	Weight	165 g (5.82 oz)
	SIM	Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, dual stand-by)

DISPLAY	Type	IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	5.5 inches (~70.6% screen-to-body ratio)
	Resolution	720 x 1280 pixels (~267 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
		– Emotion 3.0 UI

PLATFORM	OS	Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat) or Android OS, v5.0 (Lollipop)
	Chipset	HiSilicon Kirin 620 Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410
	CPU	Octa-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53
	GPU	Mali-450 Adreno 306

MEMORY	Card slot	microSD, up to 32 GB
	Internal	8 GB, 2 GB RAM

CAMERA	Primary	13 MP, 4208 x 3120 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, panorama, HDR
	Video	1080p@30fps
	Secondary	5 MP, 720p

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes
		– DTS sound

COMMS	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot
	Bluetooth	v4.0, A2DP
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
	Radio	FM radio
	USB	microUSB v2.0, USB Host

FEATURES	Sensors	Accelerometer, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
	Browser	HTML5
	Java	No
		– Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic – MP3/WAV/eAAC+/Flac player – MP4/H.264 player – Document viewer – Photo/video editor

BATTERY		Non-removable Li-Po 3000 mAh battery
	Stand-by	Up to 200 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 15 h (3G)

• Great camera for its price. It takes bright highly saturated pictures. Only con is it leaves a slightly greenish tint to most photos. It has great focus too.
• It has a monstrous battery life. I mean, I took it out today and went on playing games, browsing the internet, instagram, facebook, taking photos and videos. After 4 hours, Geof and I went home and it’s still on whopping 80%
• Large Screen
• Lightweight

• It has a small internal memory and can’t handle a lot of applications. I had to uninstall a few because I get the message “Internal memory full” 

• After using it for 2 weeks it suddenly lags like crazy. I open a few apps like my favorite Summoner’s War, Instagram, Browser, or Facebook and it can’t handle it all. It can only handle one application at a time for it to run smoothly. It is a very simple-minded phone, like Hodor. He can only say one word, Huawei’s Honor 4X can only run 1 at a time.

On bright natural daylight