Honor 60: A favorite among those who love appearance, a treasure for photographers

When Honor first started to "go it alone", the outside world was generally pessimistic about its prospects. At that time, Honor did fall into some difficulties, and its market share once dropped to 3%. However, relying on continuous technological research and development and innovation, Honor has gradually returned to the right track. In September this year, its market share has rebounded to 16.2%, almost the same as its historical high.

The reason why Honor was able to get out of the predicament is naturally inseparable from its outstanding product strength. In the Magic 3 released in August this year, Honor launched multi-main camera fusion computational photography technology, using software algorithms to make up for the limitations of mobile phones as shooting hardware and achieve full-focus high-definition images.

As another major product of Honor, the Honor digital series impresses people through design aesthetics, and continuously innovates in performance, imaging capabilities, interaction, battery life, etc., and has also achieved good response in the market. The newly released Honor 60 also practices the consistent concept of the Honor digital series. Its stunning appearance and novel and interesting gameplay make it a product especially suitable for young users.

Elegant and bold design

In addition to functionality, today's mobile phones are also becoming more and more decorative, so the appearance of mobile phones has become a focus of improvement for manufacturers.

The most eye-catching thing about the Honor 60 is its color design. The one I got is the "Juliet" color. "Juliet" is a precious rose, known as the top of the world's top ten roses. In order to cultivate it, rose planting expert David Austin spent 15 years and 3 million pounds. Unlike the bright roses that people generally think of, the Juliet rose is a light orange-red color with a layer of white on the outermost circle.

The Juliet color scheme of Honor 60 presents a gradient from white to orange-red from top to bottom, perfectly reproducing the freshness, elegance and beauty of Juliet rose. At the same time, the Juliet color scheme also uses diamond mining technology and double-film double-texture double-plating technology to give the back cover of the phone a snowflake-like texture. When there is no light, the back of Honor 60 is an elegant and pure white interwoven with orange-red. When there is light, the phone will present a light blue beam of light and golden flashes, bringing a more gorgeous beauty.

The Honor 60’s camera adopts a double-circle double-ring design similar to the Honor 50 series, showing the beauty of symmetry and harmony, and making the phone more recognizable as a whole.

Looking at the front, the Honor 60 uses the mainstream curved screen design in the Android camp. In order to improve the look and feel of the phone, the Honor 60 uses a symmetrical hyperbolic surface with a 58° curvature on the front and back, which is rare in the industry. The phone screen and the middle frame are perfectly fitted, and it looks very beautiful from any angle.

When the screen is turned on, it is obvious that the black borders of the Honor 60 screen are very slim, especially the chin, which is the most technically difficult part. If you put on the official silicone case that comes with it, the black borders of the phone will look almost the same width on all four sides, making it more refined.

The Honor 60 is equipped with a 6.67-inch OLED ultra-curved screen, which supports DCI-P3 wide color gamut and 10-bit color depth, with a contrast ratio of up to 500W:1 and a PPI of 395. The entire screen looks very delicate and transparent, and you can get a very good experience whether you are looking at photos, watching videos or playing games.

Beauty is not achieved overnight. Just like the Juliet rose, which took countless time and money to cultivate, the Honor 60 has also been carefully polished by the design team. The final result did not disappoint: Juliet color, snowflake texture, extreme fit, and exquisite texture make the entire phone low-key and elegant while revealing an extroverted and flamboyant style. The two opposite temperaments are extremely harmoniously blended in the same product.

These characteristics make the appearance of Honor 60 stand out among many mobile phones in 2021, making it a phone that people can remember at a glance.

Excellent user experience above parameters

The Honor 60 uses the Snapdragon 778G processor. Compared with the Snapdragon 888 and 870 that are now popular, the Honor 60 seems to have a low configuration. But parameters are not everything - the temperature out of control of the Snapdragon 888 has already proved this. Parameters can let you know the approximate configuration level of the phone, but they can't let you know how the phone feels to use.

First of all, it needs to be made clear that the Honor 60 is not a product with gaming as its main selling point, but its gaming experience still ranks among the best among products with the same configuration.

Take the most common "Honor of Kings" and "Game for Peace" as examples. The Honor 60 can run these two games smoothly in high-definition and high-frame mode, and there is no frequency reduction or frame drop during use. When running action games such as "Honkai Impact 3", the image quality performance is completely acceptable to me, and it can also ensure the smoothness of the battle. The phone will not heat up or freeze in scenes with more special effects.

What makes the Honor 60 even better is its heat dissipation performance. After running a 20-minute round of Game for Peace, the temperature of the front and back of the phone where I held it in my left and right hands did not exceed 33.5°C. It was not the case that the phone would become so hot that I could not continue playing the game after playing for a while.

I personally always insist that when playing games, a stable and smooth picture is more important than the frame rate and picture quality. Rather than jumping back and forth between 80 and 120 frames, it is better to have a stable 60 frames for comfort and ease. The Honor 60 does not use the highest specification configuration, but its stability is almost perfect, which shows that the design team has made a very good choice.

The power consumption control ability of Honor 60 is also reflected in its battery life. After half an hour of playing "Honkai Impact 3", 35 minutes of "Honor of Kings", 30 minutes of "Peace Elite", 40 minutes of video playback, 15 minutes of Weibo browsing and 25 minutes of TikTok playback, Honor 60 only consumed 25% of the power. For those who only use their phones during their commute to work, this battery life is more than enough. Even for users with high usage intensity, Honor 60 can basically guarantee full-day use without carrying a power bank.

The reason why Honor 60 can achieve such an excellent power consumption level is largely due to the optimization of performance scheduling. Honor 60 adopts technologies such as intelligent power saving engine, intelligent adjustment application push, and intelligent dynamic refresh rate. It can intelligently identify different user scenarios and dynamically adjust the power supply mode, so that the phone can minimize power consumption without reducing performance.

The excellent battery life of Honor 60 is not only due to the optimization of power consumption, but also to the improvement of battery capacity. Honor 60 is the first Honor digital series to increase the battery capacity to 4800 mAh, and is equipped with 66W super smart fast charging. According to actual tests, the battery capacity can reach 95% after half an hour of charging from 7%, which is an excellent speed.

As you can see, Honor 60 does not make a big fuss about the configuration, but starts from the actual user experience, so that the smoothness, stability and durability in daily use are fully guaranteed, which are the important parts of the mobile phone experience. After doing all these, why is it necessary to be harsh on the configuration of the phone?

Imaging system with ingenuity everywhere

Imaging is probably the most popular part of today's mobile phones. Regardless of the brand, the imaging system will be the focus of the new phone launch conference. In a world where high pixels, algorithms, and fancy filters are everywhere, how to make the imaging system of one's own product stand out has become a difficult problem facing all manufacturers.

In terms of basics, the Honor 60 is equipped with a 100-megapixel main camera, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, and a 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens. When you take a close-up photo of a cat with the main camera, you can see that every strand of hair is clearly displayed, the cat's eyes are clear, lively, and the background blur is just right.

When using the Honor 60 main camera to shoot street scenes, you can see that the overall style of the photos taken is brighter, with higher saturation, and the sky looks bluer than it actually is. For those who like to take pictures of scenery, the photography style of the Honor 60 should be more pleasing.

The Honor 60's night scene shooting capability is also excellent. The amount of light entering the picture is very sufficient, and the color restoration of the road signs in the main body of the picture is very realistic. Coupled with the dynamic vehicles due to handheld exposure, people's eagerness to return home after the lights come on is presented on the screen.

The most outstanding feature of the Honor digital series imaging system is its Vlog shooting capability.

Honor 60 inherits the multi-lens shooting function of Honor's previous products. The front and rear cameras work simultaneously, and can directly present effects such as picture-in-picture that require post-editing. Especially for users who have pets or children at home, while recording the cute daily life of their babies, leaving their own reactions, they will surely be more pleased when they look back at this private happiness in the future.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg of Honor 60's powerful Vlog function.

I believe that many people will encounter a problem when using the selfie function, that is, the phone is far away from the body, and it is difficult to adjust the shooting lens in real time during shooting. For users with small hands, even pressing the shooting button becomes a problem. Honor 60 has proposed its own solution to this problem: AI gesture recognition and Vlog air-changing lens function.

When using the front camera, you only need to hold your palm towards the camera for 2 seconds, and the phone will automatically start taking photos or videos. After the video is finished, you can end the shooting by making an "OK" gesture to the camera, which is very convenient. The whole process is like high-fiving the world in the lens, making the shooting more dynamic.

If you want to switch between the front and rear lenses during shooting, you can easily do it by "raising your hand" and then "flipping". You can switch to the picture-in-picture function by "making a fist". If the shooting is over, just make an "OK" gesture.

Whether you are holding it by hand or using a selfie stick or gimbal, you can use the Honor 60's air gestures to shoot Vlogs, which greatly increases the flexibility of shooting and allows users to shoot more creative and interesting Vlog content.

The Honor 60 also retains the "micro-movie" mode on the Honor 50 series and adds 20 video shooting templates, allowing users to record with one click and quickly edit directly on the phone after shooting.

A few years ago, some mobile phones launched the air gesture function, but they were quickly eliminated due to lack of accuracy and practicality. The Honor 60, on the other hand, grasped the pain points of users when shooting, and greatly improved the accuracy of AI gestures through a number of advanced technologies such as AI multimedia learning, chip platform performance tuning, camera function calling, and system-level power consumption control, finding a real place for this function. This grasp of user pain points and innovative use of technology have also become the key to Honor's return to the top.

Excellent product with beautiful appearance and smart features

In today's mobile phone industry, there is a trend that is not worth promoting, that is, the parameter-only theory. As long as impetuous people see a mobile phone with a certain price range but does not use the most flagship-level configuration, they will denounce it as an "IQ machine" or "electronic garbage". This kind of evaluation is not only not objective, but also misleading. Many consumers who lack mobile phone purchasing experience may be influenced by this and blindly pursue the mobile phone with the best "performance".

Little do people know that mobile phones are not game consoles, and performance is not entirely reflected by parameters. Some users do not need 120-frame games, just as some users use cameras only to scan codes. Mobile phones are ultimately a self-pleasing item, and the most important thing is to find the one that suits you.

Back to Honor 60, it is obvious that this is not a gaming phone - although it has stable gaming performance. The most suitable users for this phone are naturally Vlog shooting enthusiasts. Many functions of Honor 60 are built around Vlog shooting, and each one is very practical, which makes it one of the most flexible and outstanding Vlog phones on the market.

In addition, for users who have high requirements for stability, smoothness and battery life in daily use, and have certain gaming needs (such as playing games on the way to work), Honor 60 is also an excellent choice. It is light, feels good, has a long battery life, and has good temperature control, which can make you feel comfortable in any usage scenario.

Finally, if you have high requirements for the appearance of the mobile phone, then the elegant, exquisite and low-key Honor 60 Juliet color version must be the most suitable mobile phone for you.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.