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Honor 10 Lite first impressions: Seemingly powerful with some glaring compromises

The Honor 10 Lite was announced back in November in China and was one of the first Honor phones but it somehow manages to stay relevant in a smartphone market as fast-paced as India.

Huawei’s sub-brand Honor took 2018 by storm. It launched a wide range of devices right from the affordable segment all the way up to the high-end taking on established rivals like Xiaomi and OnePlus. The company started in journey back in 2018 with the Honor 9 Lite, the first smartphone to sport four cameras on the body (two on the front, two at the back). And while quad-cameras became more prevalent in the coming months, Honor is set to start the new year with yet another Lite series smartphone. The Honor 10 Lite will be launching in India in January and based on what we observed after using the phone for a while, it’s quite a progress from the Honor 9 Lite
The Honor 10 Lite was announced back in November in China and was one of the first Honor phones with an U-shaped cut-out, a design choice that soon replaced the ugly notch on smartphones. Combined with that is an almost edge-to-edge display offering a screen to body ratio of over 90 percent. That alone is a big step over its predecessor. Honor has used its Chip-On-Flex (CoF) technology that debuted with the Honor 8X to shave off the chin below the display making the 6.21-inch feel as expansive as ever.

Honor 8X’s twin brother?


The Honor 8X that arrived late into the scene in 2018 was one of our highly-rated smartphones. Honor used Huawei’s new Kirin 710 SoC that managed to outperform the top-of-the-line Qualcomm chipset on phones like the Realme 2 Pro and the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2. The Honor 10 Lite relies on the same SoC for processing power. It also comes with 64GB of storage and in either 4GB or 6GB RAM variants. The phone however chose to settle for a smaller 3400mAh battery instead of the 3750mAh on the Honor 8X. If you convert the Chinese price of the phone, it comes to around Rs 14,500 and in that price range, it’s not a bad spec-sheet to look at. But specs aren’t the end all and be all. I used the phone over the weekend and while the faster processor did come into play now and again, the overall experience wasn’t really pleasant. Like many, it’s the UI that put me off. The Honor 10 Lite relies on EMUI 9 which is based on the latest Android 9 Pie update, but it’s nowhere close to how the stock UI looks and feels. Instead, you have big, ugly icons and remain restricted to using the home screen to store apps on your phone. There’s no option to enable an app drawer and I had to resort to creating folders to arrange my apps (which are a lot).
However, once you are in an app like Facebook or Instagram or even PubG Mobile, there’s rarely any lag or stutter. I managed to scroll down my feed on Instagram for long without a hitch. We also recorded the phone’s performance in PubG Mobile against the Asus Zenfone Max Pro M2 and observed that while the frame rates were higher (as promised by Huawei’s GPU Turbo 2.0), it wasn’t as stable as the gameplay on Asus’ mid-ranger

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