Hands-on review: Honor Holly

By John McCann

Hands on: Honor Holly review

The Honor Holly is the latest smartphone to come out of the Chinese startup and it follows in the footsteps of the Honor 6, offering better-than-expected specs for the price tag.

While the Honor 6 is the flagship device, the Holly falls at the opposite end of the spectrum with a price tag of sub-£100.

Honor hasn’t revealed its final price, and for a short time you’ll be able to get the Holly at a reduced rate as part of the firm’s price hack promotion, and it goes on sale on February 23.

So what do you get for the reasonable price tag? Inside there’s a 1.3GHz quad-core processor and 1GB of RAM in charge of running Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

On the rear you’ll find an 8MP camera while on the front a 2MP snapper sits above a 5-inch, 720p display.

That’s not a bad line up for a budget device, and when you factor in the inclusion of a microSD slot on top of the 16GB of internal storage the Honor Holly is on paper at least, a strong offering.

The build is quite clearly plastic, but that’s hardly surprising considering the price …read more

Source: techradar.com – Phones