Huawei Honor 7S

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 13 expert reviews

Excellent:

0
Good:

3
Average:

2
Bad:

8

Pros:

Modern Android Oreo, good WLAN for this price bracket, solid manufacturing quality, long battery life, dual SIM plus SD card possible
Nice display, Good looking design, Decent camera for the price
Good battery life, Very affordable, Great gift for someone you don't like

Cons:

Occasionally choppy performance, no USB Type-C, GPS glitches
Unacceptably slow performance

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Last revision on October 25, 2019

Reviewers Liked

Modern Android Oreo, good WLAN for this price bracket, solid manufacturing quality, long battery life, dual SIM plus SD card possible
Nice display, Good looking design, Decent camera for the price
Good battery life, Very affordable, Great gift for someone you don't like

Reviewers Didn't Like

Occasionally choppy performance, no USB Type-C, GPS glitches
Unacceptably slow performance
Extremely sluggish performance, 720p display, No speaker grill and poor audio quality, No fingerprint scanner, NFC, face detection, Poor camera, No gyroscope

Expert reviews and ratings

The Honor 7s comes out as just another budget smartphone with nothing really special about it. The taller display is surely one of those things that are trickling down to the entry-level segment, but the inadequate memory and storage is an instant...

By Digit on September 19, 2018

At a price of Rs 6,999, Honor 7S offers solid build, satisfactory display, an acceptable camera and battery life. However, the performance of the phone could have been better. Price could be the plus point for the Honor 7S as it packs most of the...

By gadgetsnow.com on September 18, 2018

Honor 7S comes with a neat design, solid build quality and feels good for its price. In case you prefer a handset with good design, bright and nice display, Honor 7S can be an ideal pick. Even though the phone packs a single rear camera module it...

By IndianExpress on September 14, 2018

Honor has tried to deliver a low-cost phone with attractive features, and while it does look quite good, we found actual usage to be frustrating on multiple levels. Even some of last year's phones at this price level deliver better features and...

By Gadgets360 on September 14, 2018

As this handset is a member of the Honor family of products, prospective customers will no doubt expect an attractive price point. Huawei does not disappoint in this respect. The Honor 7S will be available from Hi honor, Argos or Three priced at...

By GadgetSpeak on August 09, 2018

Modern Android for a low priceIn our tests, the Honor 7S proves to be a fairly typical budget smartphone that reveals some minor weaknesses in terms of system performance. Buyers who do not mind occasionally waiting for apps to load will get a...

By NotebookCheck on July 29, 2018

For £100 (around $130 / AU$180), the Honor 7S provides a solidly built smartphone with a nice bright display.Its camera, while sluggish and a little fiddly to use, can also take some decent pictures if you really work with it.However, the phone performs...

By TechRadar on July 25, 2018

Smartphones these days tend to have a fairly short lifespan. In most circumstances, they don't last more than two years. So if feel it's unnecessary to make an $800+ investment into a device you will want to replace in a couple of years, buying a budget...

By AndroidGuys on July 24, 2018

Availability is the key here, and the Honor 7s is probably never going to cross the path of many budget phone hunters reading this. It's priced well though in the markets it will be sold and has plenty to like.It looks good, with a design and...

By Android Central on July 24, 2018

One of the cheapest Android Oreo phones we’ve seen, but the camera’s pretty awful and the whole thing’s painfully...

By Expert Reviews on July 11, 2018

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