Honor 400
Specifications

Secondary Camera: 50 MPix (f/2.0)
Price comparison
Average of 12 scores (from 20 reviews)
Reviews for the Honor 400
During our test, the Honor 400 proved to be a fairly compact mid-range smartphone with a good camera, long-lasting battery, impressive AI functions and long update support. However, you'll still need to take into account a few compromises.
Source: Techradar

For such an affordable price, I’m surprised by everything the Honor 400 provides, including a truly mesmerizing display, respectable performance, and a sizeable amount of internal storage. However, if you already own last year’s Honor 200, you may want to skip this update and wait another year or two before upgrading.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/03/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 100% performance: 80% display: 90% mobility: 80% workmanship: 80%
Source: Android Headlines

The HONOR 400 is not the snappiest phone out there, and it’s not meant to be. At its €499 price tag, it’s supposed to be a solid phone with good features, and that’s exactly what it is. Even though I wish HONOR used a better processor here, as it would make a huge difference, the phone works fine, as long as you don’t mind some stuttering. It has a solid camera, good display, and great battery life. Fast charging is also here, along with plenty of features, both AI and others. There’s plenty to like here, and the only thing that I truly didn’t like is that chip on the inside, it simply makes the phone less snappy that it should be.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Phone Arena

Time for the million-dollar question! Should you buy the Honor 400 5G? The answer, anticlimactically, is it depends. The phone does some things right and neglects others. For starters, the display is beautiful—thin bezels, bright and colorful, sharp and detailed. The main camera is also pretty decent; not many phones in this price range get the 200MP treatment in this department. Furthermore, the wired charging is pretty fast, and we can't overlook the design (quite literally). Last but not least, the Honor 400 comes with the promise of 6 years of major OS updates, though we're not sure if the hardware will manage to live up to that promise. Now, not everything is roses, though.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/30/2025
Source: DxOMark

With a score of 149, the Honor 400 delivered solid overall performance, standing out particularly in color accuracy and screen readability. However, its video playback and touch responsiveness left room for improvement. The screen was easy to read in indoor environments, but it struggled outdoors due to limited brightness. Competing devices offer much brighter displays, and the device’s peak brightness was measured at 1278 cd/m²—relatively low for its category. On a positive note, the device handles screen flickering well, using a high-frequency PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) at 3848Hz, which is generally more comfortable for the eyes. Color reproduction was a strong point, with natural and accurate colors in all lighting conditions. In addition, color shift is well controlled when the device is viewed at an angle.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/28/2025
Source: Expert Reviews

Honor has taken a subtly different tack with its latest mid-ranger, and it’s paid off. By making a few judicious cuts from the Honor 200 – or even just keeping a few elements the same – it has been able to offer a capable phone at a £100 discount. As such, it’s no longer competing with the mighty Pixel 9a or the Samsung Galaxy A56. Smart. The company hasn’t rested on its laurels, however. The Honor 400 is a sharp-looking phone with a truly excellent display and a very good 200MP main camera. Stamina is decent, too, thanks to a large 5300mAh battery, while charging speeds are snappy enough. Throw in six years of software support, and the Honor 400 is a very interesting proposition at around the £400 mark. Regardless of what the spec sheet says, it’s the kind of mid-range phone that doesn’t feel as much of a step down as the price suggests.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/27/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Tech Advisor

The Honor 400 is a solid mid-range phone with a stacked spec sheet and tonnes of great features. The cameras are solid, the battery lasts a long time, and it looks and feels premium. It’s not enough of a powerhouse to satisfy keen gamers, but elsewhere the performance is great.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Trusted Reviews

Honor has arguably put out its most premium-looking mid-range phone yet with the Honor 400. With a screen that matches flagship devices, alongside great cameras and a guaranteed six years of software updates, the Honor 400 is a true bargain in its price range, with the only major reason to seek out a different device behind MagicOS, which just isn’t as intuitive as competing Android overlays.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Cool Smartphone

Fresh off the back of the Honor 400 Lite review, I have another Honor device to unbox and review. This time, it is the midtier of the series, the Honor 400. There have been some changes from the Honor 400 Lite that are worth investigating, particularly the camera and its controls.
Hands-On, online available, Medium, Date: 05/22/2025
Source: Android Central

On the whole, the Honor 400 is a good update to its predecessor. The new camera at the back does a great job with photos in general, and the phone lasts all day with relative ease even though it's smaller than most of its rivals. The internals aren't quite up to scratch, and if you want a phone predominantly for mobile gaming, there are much better choices available. I like what Honor is doing with the software as well, and its AI suite is better than most other brands in this category. Honor is clearly going after Samsung with the device, and after using both, I can safely say that the Honor 400 is a much better choice than the Galaxy A56 in the areas that actually matter.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: Cool Smartphone

The Honor 400 is a great option for a modern AI-enabled phone that will serve the vast majority of mobile phone users well. It has plenty of power for navigating the UI and playing all but the most demanding of games. It has a very capable camera system supported by a wide array of AI goodies, thanks to the close ties that Honor is making with Google. As to where it sits in the smartphone environment as a whole, I would put this up against the likes of the Pixel 9 and the Samsung A56 devices. If you don’t have an enormous budget and you want a phone that ticks a lot of boxes, then go with this. If, however, you need a telephoto lens and wireless charging, then it would be worth looking at the Honor 400 Pro as it will have all the same features s the Honor 400 apart from the Telephoto or Wireless charging.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/22/2025
Foreign Reviews
Source: PC Welt

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/04/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: HDblog.it

Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 79% price: 32% features: 81%
Source: Les Numeriques

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/24/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 100% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 80%
Source: Clubic

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 05/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 90% workmanship: 90%
Source: Journal du Geek

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Unite4buy

Positive: Beautiful design; beautiful AMOLED 120Hz display; powerful hardware; high performance; very long battery life; quick 80W charging; excellent main camera; stereo speakers. Negative: Poor secondary camera; without microSD card slot; plastic case; waterproof IP65 only.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/20/2025
Source: The Gioididong

Positive: Beautiful AMOLED display; powerful processor; high performance; excellent cameras; premium design; quick 80W charging.
Hands-On, online available, Long, Date: 06/15/2025
Source: Nghenhin Vietnam

Positive: Beautiful design; great display; decent performance; nice cameras; long battery lfie; quick charging. Negative: No charger included.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/31/2025
Source: Nghenhin Vietnam

Positive: Premium design; bright display; good processor; impressive cameras; long battery life; quick 66W charging. Negative: Without charger included; no telephoto lens; lack of memory card slot; average gaming performance.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 05/31/2025
Source: XT Mobile

Positive: Affordable price; elegant design; smart AI Features; sharp AMOLED display; large battery capacity; quick 66W charging; powerful processor.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/25/2025
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Qualcomm Adreno 720: Graphics chip for smartphones and tablets, integrated in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
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SD 7 Gen 3: Mid-range SoC with 8 Kryo cores (1x ARM Cortex-A715 2.63 GHz prime core, 3x ARM Cortex A715 2.4 GHz performance cluster, 4x ARM Cortex A510 with 1.8 efficiency cluster) and an X63 5G modem. The chip is manufactured using the modern 4nm process.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
6.55":
It is a small display format for smartphones. You shouldn't be severely defective in vision, and you won't see much detail on the screen and only have a small resolution available. For that, the device should be small and handy, easy to transport.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Honor:
In 2014 Huawei created the sub brand Honor and offers certain smartphone series under this name. Occasionally the products are also called Huawei Honor.
The market share of Honor products is manageable, but there are several reviews on Honor smartphones with average ratings (as of 2016).
82.46%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
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