Looking at the new models in 2021, Honor V40 may be the most story-breaking one. Regardless of whether you are a fan of Honor or not, everyone is actually in a consistent mood for Honor V40. They are looking forward to seeing this "first step" take, and are also curious about what else can Honor gain without Huawei's support.
Of course, the people who are watching the fun are not a big deal, but for users who really want to buy this phone, they naturally hope to have more knowledge about the product. My opinion is consistent with consumers. Whether the mobile phone is easy to use still needs real experience as a reference. Even though Honor V40 is a mobile phone with special significance, whether it can make everyone willing to pay for it is still necessary to test it out.
This time, before the release of Honor V40, I got the real machine as soon as possible. After a few days of testing, I also had a lot of different feelings. In short, if you are curious about the Honor V40, you want to know what this phone is like? What are the upgrades? What changes have been made? Is it still the glory we once knew? Next, I will give you a detailed introduction.
Appearance: A unique and recognizable appearance design
Mobile phone is a typical representative of the combination of art and technology. When a new phone is released, in addition to the need to build advanced and cutting-edge innovative technologies, the appearance will always be a highlight.
From the front, the Honor V40 still adopts the classic shape of a front-facing dual-hole camera, but the diameter of the two holes is smaller. The screen size is up to 6.72 inches, adopts a waterfall screen design, with a curvature of 80 degrees, so the screen is almost invisible on both sides, and it looks very high-end.
upper forehead and chin have been narrowed, and the screen-to-body ratio has been further improved, up to 93.24%, and the frontal view will be more immersive.
is made of metal middle frame around it, with a good texture, which is more than just a plastic border. The four corners are also rounded, with the slight curve just right, which shows that Honor is more mature in detail.
power key and volume key are all concentrated in the right border. The color and material are consistent with the border, blending well, making it more harmonious and unified, and not abrupt. There are SIM card slots, Type-C charging ports and speakers at the bottom, all available from left to right.
Let’s take a look at the control of body thickness and weight of Honor V40. The development of 5G mobile phones towards lightweight is a major trend, and the Honor V40 performs well in this regard. The thickness of the whole machine is 8.04mm and the weight is 186g. It will not disappoint everyone in terms of visual and hand feel, and it can take care of the personal experience of most users. At least in my opinion, the Honor V40 is still very comfortable in terms of grip.
Let’s take a look at the back design of Honor V40. To be honest, it can still be impressive at first glance. The Honor V40 has three colors: Fantasy Night Black, Titanium Air Silver, and Rose Gold. The one I got in my hand is the Titanium Air Silver version.
The first thing that catches your eye is the matte body, which truly interprets what is hazy beauty. It has a subtle matte texture to the touch, which looks high-end and is not easy to touch with fingerprints.
Next is the camera module, a MATRIX CAMERA camera matrix composed of three lenses, a laser focus sensor and a flash. It has a unique style and is very recognizable. On the right side of the camera module, a large area of high-gloss glass rectangular areas are also left, which contrasts sharply with the hazy glass body below, giving users a balance between feel and beauty.
In terms of appearance design, Honor V40 combines rational rectangular space and sensuous color changes, re-dividing the plane with multiple 1:3:9:27 ratio rectangles, creating a multi-dimensional recursive visual structure on the plane. For example, the camera matrix, main camera area, bright surface part, etc., will present a scattered spectrum and light path at different angles, which is very beautiful.
In order to achieve such a light and shadow effect, Honor V40 was the first to adopt a double-layer texture coating design scheme, realizing that one layer is sharp linear light and the other is blurred surface light, and assists in seamless splicing and mold transfer technology, ultimately bringing a natural and beautiful light and shadow change effect.
There is no doubt that if you only judge the victory or defeat by your appearance, the Honor V40 is definitely the best-looking model in previous V series. The bold and breaking through the conventional curiosity design itself contains unique trend charm and also demonstrates a unique and pioneering attitude with different personalities. For the appearance party, this may be a product that is easy for people to fall in love with.
screen: an exciting good screen
Unlike the previous generation LCD screen, Honor V40 chose to be equipped with an OLED screen, becoming the first model in the V series to be equipped with an OLED screen.
Here we first look at the basic situation about the Honor V40 screen:
Screen size: 6.72 inches
Screen resolution: 1236x2676
Screen refresh rate: 120Hz
Screen touch sampling rate: 300Hz
Screen color: 1 billion colors Original color display
Pixel density: 440ppi
Color gamut: DCI-P3 wide color gamut Equipped with color restoration engine
Screen brightness: Global peak brightness 800nit
Contrast: 5000000:1
Display enhancement: HDR10
From the configuration point of view, Honor V40 has invested a relatively large cost on the screen, and is equipped with FHD+ resolution standard. Compared with many 1080P mobile phones, it has more obvious advantages. After all, the resolution is higher and the picture should be more delicate.
In addition, the pixel density of Honor V40 screen is also as high as 440ppi, which is at the top position in the industry. Combined with ultra-high resolution, high brightness and high contrast, the screen clarity of Honor V40 reaches the retinal level.
, the user experience has been significantly improved, and the refresh rate is relatively high. Everyone is familiar with the role of high refresh rate. The higher the screen refresh rate means the more pictures displayed per second, which also means that the actions between each frame will look smoother and more coherent. Therefore, the 120Hz screen will show twice the amount of content per second than the 60Hz screen. When browsing news, Weibo, and friends, the smoothness of the 120Hz screen will be more intuitive.
20Hz screen and 60Hz screen to brush Weibo (the left is Honor V40)
. During the game, the advantages of 120Hz screen are also more obvious. For example, in FPS games, the instantaneous image transition is natural and faster, and there will be no frame drops, lags, etc., making it easier for players to lock in targets.
0Hz and 60Hz open mirror speed comparison (the Honor V40 on the left)
In addition to high definition and high refresh rate, Honor V40 also supports 300Hz touch sampling rate. With the built-in hardware-level super touch control engine, in chicken-eating games, it will respond faster and more accurately when following the gun and aiming. For competitive games that are always in every second, its advantages are self-evident.
It is worth noting that Honor V40 also increases the 16.7 million colors of traditional flagship screen colors to 1.07 billion colors. Each color point on the 10-bit screen can display the 10th level color depth of 2. Compared with 8bit, the former color transition will be smoother, and it is also more realistic and accurate in color restoration, which can provide extremely high picture quality performance.
At the same time, the screen of Honor V40 also supports DCI-P3 wide color gamut. DCI-P3 is a mature color standard applied to digital theaters, matching the entire color gamut in the movie as much as possible. For display devices, the larger the color space that can be displayed, the richer the color changes will be, and of course it will be better. Not only that, Honor V40 is also equipped with a color restoration engine, which can accurately convert the same color to the P3 color gamut, and the picture shown is often more realistic and delicate.
In terms of eye protection, Honor V40 is not only the first model in the industry to support TÜV Global Eye Protection Certification 2.0 in Germany, but also its excellent ambient light management capabilities have left a deep impression on me.Although most mobile phones have automatic dimming function, the brightness adjustment range of Honor V40 is larger, reaching level 4096, and it is more sensitive to external light changes. Simply put, Honor V40 can always present the brightness that is most suitable for the human eye, and the actual viewing experience will be more comfortable.
5G: The fastest 5G download speed
5G After more than a year of development, I believe that users have more or less understood it. We have done a lot of tests on the speed of mobile phones in 5G network environments before. I am still optimistic about Honor. Even though the V40 did not use Kirin chips but replaced it with Dimensity 1000+, the expectation value has not changed at all.
, on the one hand, is that Dimensity 1000+ has a very balanced comprehensive performance, supports 5G dual-stop, and supports 5G dual-carrier aggregation to double the speed under 5G, and has a wider range of 5G signal acceptance and more stable connections. On the other hand, Honor still has a deep technical foundation in 5G technology, which will become part of the advantages of Honor V40.
judging from the actual test results of the professional 5G speed test software Speedtest, it also confirms my previous views. The 5G rate of Honor V40 has a peak downlink rate of up to 930Mbps/s, and an uplink rate of uplink rate of uplink also reaches 90.5Mbps/s, exceeding most models we have tested at the same location.
so what is the performance of the real download speed? This time I downloaded the mobile game "Tianyu" through the Honor App Store. You can see that the game has 1874.9MB, nearly 2 G, it takes only 23 seconds, and the download speed is super fast. There is no doubt that such a 5G experience is still very exciting.
Game: More stable high-frame gaming experience
Dimensity 1000+ is built with advanced 7nm process, with 8 core architectures, 4 2.6GHz Cortex-A77 large cores and 4 2.0GHz Cortex-A55 small cores. In terms of GPU, Dimensity 1000Plus has a built-in 9 core Mali-G77, which is 40% higher than G67.
Through the Antutu running score test, the Honor V40 equipped with Dimensity 1000+ scored 466564 points, which is a mid-to-high level.
measures the performance of a mobile phone, and playing games is undoubtedly the most direct and intuitive way to test. Here we selected three games, " Peace Elite ", "Honor of Kings" and "Cross Fire" for testing, and all of them turned on the maximum frame rate mode. The test results are as follows:
"Peace Elite" has a stable run of 90 frames
html l3 "Cross Fire" has a stable run of 120 frames
"Honor of Kings" has a stable run of 60 frames
From the actual results, "Peace Elite" has a higher configuration requirements, but Honor V40 can still run up to 90 frames. In some intense scenes, or when loading a large number of maps, there is no frame drop. "Honor of Kings" can also be stable at around 60 frames. From jungler to laning, to fierce team battles, there are no frame drops or lags throughout the whole process, which is very outstanding. In "Cross Fire", the maximum 120Hz mode is also supported. The Honor V40 can maintain 120 frames stably for most of the time. The extremely small frame rate fluctuations still occur at the moment when the character dies, but it has nothing to do with the mobile phone, and is more of a problem with the game mechanism.
Here we had a sudden idea and compared the frame rate of Honor V40 with the model equipped with Snapdragon 865 to observe the gap between the two in the game test. Judging from the comparison results, both of them can run the full game with full frame values in "Peace Elite".
has such performance, on the one hand, thanks to the adjustment of the Dimensity 1000+ by Honor V40, which fully utilizes the performance of this chip and can also bring a good experience in actual games. On the other hand, Honor V40 has greatly improved the software and hardware collaboration capabilities through the GPU Turbo X graphics acceleration engine. With this function, the mobile phone CPU and GPU can give priority to the supply of system resources, thus breaking through the hardware shackles and providing a stable and extreme smooth experience for some games that support high frame rate mode.
In addition to a stable performance experience, for players, mobile phone vibration feedback is also one of the important functions that cannot be ignored. Especially during the game, when the fingertips touch the screen and cause delicate vibrations, it will often be more immersive.
mobile phone motor types are not unique, but Honor V40 is relatively special, with a built-in Z-axis + X-axis dual linear motor. In a word, it means that "buzzing" and "dadadada" are more intense. When playing horizontal screen games, the vibration feedback is crisp and neat, without dragging on the mud, and the impact feeling is more real. Of course, the biggest advantage is that in the game, the 4D three-dimensional vibration experience makes the player's game process more immersive. A more regrettable thing is that the Honor V40 supports 4D shock games. Currently, there are only a few games such as Happy Void, New Gods and Demons, Honor of Kings, and New Smiling Proud Wanderer, and more games are still being adapted. In addition to giving game bonuses in software and hardware, the Honor V40 also pays great attention to detailed experience. For example, during the entire game process, there is no accidental touch of the curved screen. This is because the Honor V40 has specially made anti-touch upgrades, supports locking the full-screen gesture and status bar, and the curved screen game experience has been qualitatively improved. Secondly, after entering the game space, players can also enable functions such as message-free interruption, so that we can focus more on the game itself and enjoy private time.
image: big bottom sensor + RYYB, photography is worth looking forward to
image system, Honor V40 rear 50-megapixel ultra-photosensitive camera + 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera + 2-megapixel macro camera triple camera module, the photography performance is still good, here we will speak with the sample:
main camera sample
main camera sample
main camera sample
This is a set of outdoor daytime main camera samples. It can be seen that with the support of 50 million pixels, the main camera resolution is quite powerful, and the details of the sample are also very clear. The details of the building, the outline of the branches, and the texture of the floor bricks and stones are all accurately recorded. In addition, the main photo also restores the color very well, with clear colors and good overall performance.
It is worth noting that when shooting some scenes with a large dynamic range, turning on the HDR function can better show the light and dark details, making the sample more textured.
can be seen that the gap before and after turning on the HDR function is still very obvious. After turning off the HDR, the overall brightness will drop a lot, and the shadows of the building are also a bit too dark. If you don’t look carefully, it will be difficult to see the specific details clearly. After turning on HDR, the picture becomes brighter, and the patterns, colors and tones of the picture in the shadows all tend to have a change in high saturation and high contrast, and the sample looks more flavorful.
Honor V40 is equipped with an ultra-wide-angle lens, so that when facing some tall and vast scenes, you can also store all the viewed scenes into your lens without taking a step back.
ultra-wide-angle sample
ultra-wide-angle sample
In terms of telephoto, Honor V40 supports maximum 10 times digital zoom, which can help us shoot some far-reaching scenes~
For night scenes, Honor V40's advantages in the main camera have also been significantly exerted. This time, the Honor V40 is equipped with a 1/1.56-inch flagship super-large sensor, an increase of 25% compared to the 1/1.7-inch area of the Honor V30 Pro. In addition, the RYYB ultrasensor light sensor can also increase the light inflow by 40% compared to ordinary sensors, further improving the imaging effect of Honor V40 in night or dark light environments.
night scene sample
Thanks to the powerful light input brought by the RYYB ultra-photosensitive color arrangement method and the super-photosensitive large bottom sensor, Honor V40 can still take real night scene samples under dark indoor conditions, and the samples are very pure and there is no noise.
night scene sample
night scene sample
night scene sample
night scene sample
night scene sample
night scene sample
Let’s look at a set of outdoor night scene samples.When the surrounding light is too sufficient, this still faithfully restores the real picture that the human eye can see. Through the optimization of the night view mode, the screen noise is handled very well. There is almost no noise in the sky and the shadow areas of the building. The picture is very clean, and the color details are retained to the greatest extent, and there is no color offset.
Battery life & Charging: The overall performance is satisfactory
Honor V40 has a 120Hz high refresh screen and supports 5G. So what will its battery life be? In this regard, we also conducted a 5-hour battery life test to simulate the use of severe mobile phone users within 5 hours. Before the test starts, we turned on the 5G network and Wi-Fi switch throughout, turned off Bluetooth, NFC and positioning, set the screen resolution and refresh rate to intelligent switching, the screen brightness and volume are 50%, and clear the background of the phone.
5-hour battery life test content is as follows:
In the default camera state, video recording is turned on, and the test time is 30 minutes; watching B station 1080P movies, the test time is 90 minutes; playing "Peace Elite", the maximum frame rate is turned on, and the test time is 90 minutes; browsing Weibo information flow, the test time is 30 minutes; browsing Taobao information flow for mobile phones for 30 minutes, the test results are as follows:
Overall, under the premise of a built-in 4000mAh battery, Honor V40 can still maintain more than 30% of the battery after 5 hours of continuous tossing. Its battery life is not very powerful, but it is relatively balanced and can meet the daily usage needs of normal users, which is quite satisfactory.
Of course, the existence of fast charging can also provide power support for continuous battery life to a certain extent. Compared with the previous generation, this time, Honor V40 has made greater progress in fast charging and adopts a 66W wired fast charging solution. This solution not only has the first-class charging speed, but also uses battery cell shunt technology, which can reduce the heating of the battery cell, and avoid battery capacity splitting losses and extend battery life.
0-minute charging test
Here, the Honor V40 was also tested for 30 minutes. From the actual test, the charging speed of 66W is indeed very considerable. It charges to 46% in 15 minutes, nearly half of the battery; in 30 minutes, it charges to 89%, and the charging speed is still at the level of the first echelon. It is usually used to get blood for the mobile phone, and the effect is still very obvious.
In addition, Honor V40 also supports 50W wireless fast charging, which is faster than many wired fast charging. The addition of this dual fast charging combination solution has added another layer of guarantee for extending the battery life of the mobile phone.
Finally, there is something to say:
Objectively speaking, Honor V40 is still very good in terms of texture and experience, especially in terms of appearance design, screen quality, image functions and fast charging. We can see that Honor V40 uses very strong materials and hides amazing bursting power. From my personal perspective, Honor V40 is another product that changes ubiquitously. Compared with the previous V series, the V40 uses the OLED screen , supports faster fast charging, and has a dual linear motor... These changes are also the side that Honor actively conveys after experiencing self-breakthrough.
Of course, we still need to have the minimum understanding of Honor V40. Perhaps it is due to the special role of "connecting the past and opening up the future", which has not become a model that completely abandons the past, but it has not been self-satisfied, but has brought some new changes, which will also become the key factor that determines its position in the hearts of users.
In short, Honor V40 retains the shadow of the past, and also has a surprising new side. If you are a true Honor fan and loyal to your feelings, Honor V40 can still satisfy you; but if you yearn to see the difference between Honor, then Honor V40 will not disappoint you either.
