Honor 70 review: The camera and screen easily outperform its price point

The Honor 70 knows what its users want, and offers it for a very attractive price.

A metallic green Honor 70 smartphone on a table
(Image: © Ian Evenden)

Our Verdict

A decent mid-ranger with a good camera and bright, colourful screen, the Honor 70 might not win any prizes for design or provide the absurd levels of performance we’ve come to expect from flagship devices, but it’s a very good phone for the money, and sometimes that’s all you need.

For

  • Thin and light
  • Excellent camera
  • Nice screen

Against

  • Only one speaker
  • Digital zoom only
  • No headphone port

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A mid-range but eye-catching phone, the Honor 70 stands out thanks to its large double camera bulge and excellent screen.

The camera is particularly good, using a new Sony sensor and with a lot of post-shot processing that ensures a sharp and colourful image, and the images look great on the phone’s 6.7-inch OLED screen. The phone is generally thin, light, and easy to keep in your pocket, the noticeable camera roundels protruding quite sharply from the back, but not so far that a case couldn’t fill, or at least soften, the gap.

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The Verdict
8

out of 10

Honor 70

A decent mid-ranger with a good camera and bright, colourful screen, the Honor 70 might not win any prizes for design or provide the absurd levels of performance we’ve come to expect from flagship devices, but it’s a very good phone for the money, and sometimes that’s all you need.

Ian Evenden

Ian Evenden has been a journalist for over 20 years, starting in the days of QuarkXpress 4 and Photoshop 5. He now mainly works in Creative Cloud and Google Docs, but can always find a use for a powerful laptop or two. When not sweating over page layout or photo editing, you can find him peering at the stars or growing vegetables.

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