Jun 23, 2016 03:13 PM
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Display - The Honor 5C has a smaller screen at 5.2 inches, and is therefore a little bit smaller and a lot easier to handle.
The phone has a 5.2-inch full-HD IPS LCD screen, covering 68.7 percent of the front. There are no capacitive buttons on the phone, with the Android keys appearing on-screen. Coming to the screen itself, it's fairly bright, but not quite bright enough.
Colours are a bit dull as well, and the general sense we got was that the screen was muted and not vibrant enough. It's very sharp and more than adequate for most purposes, but if you use your phone for watching a lot of videos or spend a lot of time outdoors in the sun, you might find it a bit too dull.
Camera - The Honor 5C has a 13-megapixel primary camera and an 8-megapixel secondary camera. Both can record video at up to 1080p, and the rear camera has a single-LED flash. Typical photography modes such as HDR, slow-motion video, time-lapse video and panorama are present. Camera performance is pretty much on par with that of the Honor 5X, with decent colour reproduction and detail. Pictures in well-lit settings are good, as are low-light shots, although you can expect to see a bit of loss of colour in detail in the latter. There's very little grain in the pictures, which is excellent for a phone in this price range.
Processor & Ram - The Honor 5C sticks to most of the mid-range specifications that the 5X sported, but there are some differences here. The most significant of these is the use of the Kirin 650 SoC, which is manufactured by Huawei's own subsidiary Hisilicon. It's the company's current-generation mid-range SoC, and marks a change from the 5X which uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 616. It notably uses the 16nm FinFET+ process for manufacturing, which promises better performance and battery life than the current equivalent SoCs from Qualcomm and MediaTek.
There's also 2GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage(expandable by up to 128GB using a microSD card) and a 3000mAh battery. Although there are other options in this price range with 3GB of RAM or more, the Honor 5C manages fine with 2GB thanks to an aggressive memory management system that clears apps out of RAM to ensure that the phone continues to run smoothly.
The Honor 5C runs on Android 6.0, with Huawei's EMUI 4.1 on top. The changes between the older version of EMUI and this one aren't very obvious, with the interface retaining its signature look and feel, including the same single-layered user interface, notification shade, and quick settings menu. An interesting feature in this UI which we continue to enjoy is the magazine lock screen, which changes the lock screen background to a new picture every time.
