Review | Huawei’s budget gaming phone Honor Play handles graphics-intensive games like a premium model
Priced at around US$300, the Honor Play comes with Huawei’s top-of-the-line Kirin 970 processor and GPU Turbo software, which make playing graphics-intensive games like PUBG Mobile and Asphalt 9 a breeze
The mobile gaming industry is growing rapidly and phone brands are jumping at the chance to introduce new hardware that caters to hardcore mobile gamers.
Razer and Asus have already introduced gaming phones in the past 12 months, and now Honor, a sub-brand of Chinese phone maker Huawei, has launched its own budget model.
Design and hardware
The Honor Play shares many design similarities with the recently released Honor 10, which itself was modelled on Huawei’s current flagship smartphone, the P20 Pro. That means all three phones look and feel similar, from the notched display with rounded corners and left-aligned camera module to the logo placement.
They all run on the same processor too: the Kirin 970 developed in-house by Huawei. Considering that the Honor Play is priced at about US$300, roughly one-third of the P20 Pro’s launch price, this alone makes the Play a great value proposition.