Step into a new era of mobile excellence with the HONOR 400 from Ksh.48500, a smartphone crafted to provide a flagship experience without breaking the bank. This device grabs your attention right away with its stunning display, featuring an AMOLED panel that offers a silky-smooth 120Hz refresh rate and an impressive peak brightness of 5000 nits—making everything look vibrant and clear, even in direct sunlight. Underneath its sleek design, it’s powered by the efficient Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset and a hefty 6000mAh battery with lightning-fast 80W wired charging, ensuring it can keep up with your busiest days. For those who love to create content, the 200MP main camera system, along with a sharp 50MP front camera, captures incredible detail and supports cinematic 4K video, solidifying the HONOR 400 as a versatile powerhouse that redefines what you can expect from a premium mid-range phone.

 HONOR 400 Key Specifications

Here is a table summarizing the key specifications of the standard HONOR 400 model:

DISPLAY

HONOR 400 comes with a stunning 6.55-inch AMOLED display, which is definitely one of its standout features. It delivers a visually impressive experience that can easily compete with more expensive smartphones. With a sharp resolution of 1264 x 2736 pixels (about 460 ppi), everything from images to text looks incredibly clear and detailed. Plus, the display supports a smooth 120Hz refresh rate, making scrolling, gaming, and general navigation feel effortlessly fluid. One of its most remarkable specs is the claimed peak brightness of 5000 nits, ensuring that you can see everything clearly, even in bright sunlight. For those long hours of use, the display also includes advanced tech like 3840Hz PWM dimming to help reduce flicker at lower brightness levels, which can really ease eye strain. And with 10-bit color depth and HDR certification, it’s perfect for enjoying HDR content from popular streaming platforms like Netflix and YouTube.

PROCESSOR

HONOR 400 is equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chipset, making it a formidable player in the upper mid-range smartphone arena. This processor is crafted using a cutting-edge 4nm manufacturing process, striking a great balance between performance and power efficiency.

PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE;The Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 boasts an Octa-core CPU setup, featuring a tri-cluster architecture: – One Prime Core running at 2.63 GHz (Cortex-A715) for top-notch performance. – Three Performance Cores clocked at 2.4 GHz (Cortex-A715) to tackle demanding tasks with ease. – Four Efficiency Cores operating at 1.8 GHz (Cortex-A510) to handle everyday operations while saving battery life. For graphics, the Adreno 720 GPU steps in, delivering impressive performance for gaming and other graphically intensive applications.

PERFORMANCE AND USER EXPERIENCE;When it comes to real-world performance, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 really shines, providing a smooth and efficient experience for everyday tasks, juggling multiple apps, and enjoying media. While it may not quite match the high-end performance of flagship processors like the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 found in the Honor 400 Pro, it still delivers impressive performance for its category. Its benchmark scores, including an AnTuTu v10 score of about 864,286 and a GeekBench 6 Multi-core score of roughly 3,198, highlight its strength as a robust mid-range SoC. It’s more than capable of handling modern games and advanced features, such as the device’s AI capabilities for tasks like turning photos into videos and sophisticated editing.

SYSTEM INTEGRATION; The processor is paired with up to 12GB of RAM and operates on Android 15, featuring Honor’s unique MagicOS 9 interface. This seamless integration enables the HONOR 400 to tap into the chipset’s capabilities, delivering a highly personalized and feature-packed user experience, complete with advanced AI functionalities and enhanced system optimizations.

OPERATING SYSTEM

The HONOR 400 runs on the latest iteration of MagicOS, specifically MagicOS 9. This is Honor’s tailored software that builds on Google’s Android 15 foundation. With this setup, users can enjoy all the essential Android features and tap into the extensive Google Play app ecosystem, while also benefiting from Honor’s distinctive features, design touches, and optimizations. One of the standout advantages of this software is its commitment to long-term support, promising up to six major Android upgrades to keep the device up-to-date for years to come. MagicOS 9 is designed to enhance user experience with a range of AI capabilities that boost photography, improve system performance, and introduce smart features, like transforming still images into short video clips through platform integration. Although some reviewers feel that MagicOS could still improve when compared to other interfaces, it delivers reliable performance and offers plenty of customization options.

RAM and STORAGE

The HONOR 400 RAM and Storage Configuration The HONOR 400 comes with a variety of solid configurations for RAM and internal storage, making it a great choice for those who need high performance for multitasking and plenty of room for their media and apps.

When it comes to RAM, the HONOR 400 typically offers either 8GB or 12GB options. Choosing between these two can significantly affect how well the phone manages multiple apps at once and runs demanding games without a hitch. The 12GB RAM option is tailored for a more premium multitasking experience, ensuring that background tasks and app switching are smooth and quick, perfectly complementing its Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor.

As for internal storage, you can choose between 256GB and 512GB. These generous storage options are perfect for users who love to keep a lot of photos, 4K videos, and games on their devices. It’s worth noting that the HONOR 400 doesn’t support expandable storage through a microSD card slot, so the storage you pick initially is what you’re stuck with. The available configurations usually pair these storage sizes with the RAM options, leading to combinations like 8GB RAM + 256GB storage, 12GB RAM + 256GB storage, 8GB RAM + 512GB storage, and 12GB RAM + 512GB storage.

CAMERA

The HONOR 400 5G comes with a flexible dual-camera setup on the back, featuring a standout high-resolution primary sensor alongside a handy ultra-wide lens, plus a solid front-facing camera for those perfect selfies. The main camera is equipped with a 200MP sensor, specifically the Samsung ISOCELL HP3, and it’s paired with an f/1.9 aperture lens and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS). This impressive pixel count allows for detailed 12.5MP binned photos, making it great for high-quality digital zoom shots (up to 4x) without needing a separate telephoto lens, often matching the performance of more expensive models. Overall, the image quality from the main sensor is praised for its natural processing, good dynamic range, and accurate colors, even in low-light conditions. Alongside the main sensor, there’s a 12MP ultra-wide angle camera with an f/2.2 aperture and a 112-degree field of view. A standout feature of this secondary lens is its autofocus (AF) capability, which lets it double as a Super Macro camera, capturing impressive close-up shots with various zoom options in the dedicated macro mode.

While the ultra-wide lens does a decent job, especially in daylight, it doesn’t perform as well in low light compared to the main sensor. For selfies and video calls, the HONOR 400 5G sports a 50MP front-facing camera with an f/2.0 aperture. Even though it has a fixed focus, the high resolution guarantees excellent detail and natural skin textures in photos. Plus, the phone supports 4K video recording at 30fps across all three cameras (main, ultra-wide, and front), with Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) turned on by default for the rear cameras to help smooth out your footage. The system is further enhanced by AI features like AI Super Zoom and specialized portrait modes, aiming to provide a solid and feature-rich photography experience for a mid-range device.

CHARGING AND BATTERY.

For the 6,000 mAh version (like the Global/ROW model): This bigger battery allows for a quicker 80W HONOR SuperCharge wired fast charging. With the 80W charger, you can get about 40% charge in just 15 minutes, and a full charge takes less than an hour. One thing to note is that it doesn’t support wireless charging, which could be a downside for those who are used to that convenience. On the bright side, the phone does offer 5W reverse wired charging, so you can share a little power with other devices using a cable.