Honor 90 5G First Impression in Hindi: ‘New beginning’ with decent looks and powerful specifications!

Honor has launched a new smartphone in India after a long gap. The company has introduced Honor 90 5G in collaboration with its Indian partner HTech. This smartphone comes in the under Rs 40,000 category. Many stalwarts have entered this segment recently, due to which the competition here is very hot. Some models of Realme, Motorola and OnePlus have taken the competition to the peak in the segment. In such a situation, to attract Indian customers, Honor has packed 90 5G with many attractive features. I have the Emerald green color variant of Honor 90 5G. This is my ‘first impression’ about this phone.

Honor 90 5G does not focus on any one specification. The company has tried to fit every specification in the device that people can notice. 6.7 inch AMOLED quad-curved floating display, premium back, 200MP main rear camera, 50MP front camera are the highlights of this smartphone.

As soon as you unbox the phone, its design catches your attention. The back of the phone is made of glass and polycarbonate frame. Honor has called this back design as dual-ring camera system design. All the rear sensors are fitted in two separate ring-like camera bumps. There is a glossy trim around the bump. The remaining part has dotted patterns that shine in the light. Because of these, the phone grips the hand and does not slip. These dotted patterns protect the phone from fingerprints to a great extent. Honor’s branding is highlighted at the bottom.

The frame of Honor 90 5G is glossy and green in color. The power button and volume rocker are on the right side of the phone. There is a SIM tray, Type-C port and single speaker grill at the bottom. One microphone port is at the top while the other is at the bottom. Honor 90 5G has a curved display. There are thin bezels all around the panel. The bottom bezels are slightly thicker than the rest. There is a notch in the top center of the display, in which the selfie camera is fitted. In this way, this phone offers premium design and look. The thickness of the phone is only 7.8mm and its weight is 183 grams. The design of Honor 90 5G attracted me. It would not be wrong to say that it can be easily recognized even in the crowd of smartphones.

Honor 90 5G has a 6.7-inch quad-curved floating display, which supports refresh rate up to 120Hz. This is an AMOLED panel, which has a great resolution of 2664×1200 pixels. The peak HDR brightness of the phone is 1600 nits. Its display is HDR 10 Plus certified and HDR certified for Netflix. Honor has said that 3840Hz PWM dimming technology has been used in its smartphone. This does not pose any risk to the eyes, meaning you can use the smartphone for a long time.

The display impressed me. It was crisp and vivid. Colours also appeared punchy. More importantly, I did not feel any eye fatigue even after using the phone for a few hours. Colours on the display looked good both indoors and outdoors. I did not have any difficulty reading content in bright sunlight.

Talking about some other technical aspects, the display of Honor 90 5G is TUV Rheinland certified. It has also received the tag of First Quality Display with DXO Gold Label.

Honor 90 5G has Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 AE processor. Select smartphones with this processor are available in the Indian market, one of which is Motorola Razr 40, which is priced around Rs 60,000. This is a processor built on 4nm process, which is considered good for gaming as well as multitasking. This processor supports 14 5G bands. I found this processor powerful after using it for a very short time. My review unit has 8GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB storage.

In this configuration, the phone handled social media browsing, content streaming and a little bit of gaming quite well. We will put this smartphone through all our tests in the coming days. To prevent the phone from getting too hot during heavy use, graphite sheet and AI based thermal management system have been used in it.

Honor 90 5G has a triple rear camera setup. The main camera is 200 megapixels. Apart from that, there is a 12 megapixel ultra wide and macro camera and a depth camera. The 200 MP main rear camera has a 1/1.4 inch sensor. It is claimed that with its help excellent HDR photos can be taken. It captures bright and detailed shots even in low light. The ultra wide camera has a field of view (FOV) of 112 degrees. The camera app has options for various modes like HDR, portrait, multi video, solo cut, close up. Videos can be recorded at 4K @30fps from the main rear camera, while videos can also be taken at 4K @30fps from the 50 megapixel front camera.

The main rear camera offers up to 10X digital zoom. The initial pictures were decent. The selfie camera seemed more impressive. We will talk about the camera performance in detail in the review.

Honor 90 5G has a 5000mAh battery. Charger was not found in the box. There was only a Type-A to Type-C cable. Honor says that the charger will be sold separately to Indian users, which will be free. In initial use, the phone’s battery lasted for about a day. However, its test is still pending. To know how well it supports heavy usage, you will have to wait for the review.

The Honor 90 5G smartphone runs on Magic OS 7.1 based on Android 13. Some preloaded apps were present in the phone, which could be uninstalled. Talking about other features, Honor 90 5G comes with RAM Turbo feature, which allows the phone’s RAM to be expanded up to 5 GB. NFC support, in-display fingerprint sensor and UFS 3.1 features are also present in this phone. The company is offering 2 years of software and 3 years of security patch updates.

We will put the Honor 90 5G smartphone through all the necessary tests of Gadgets 360 in the coming days. Stay tuned to read the full review.