Honor X7a smartphone review – Flexible cameras in a low-priced cell phone

With the Helio G37 Honor has opted for a very weak SoC, even for this price range. Thus, the review sample only achieves 1/5 of the points in the benchmarks that the similarly priced Samsung Galaxy A14 5G with MediaTek Dimensity 700 achieves. In everyday use, you have to live with stutters and waiting times from time to time, for example when changing settings or opening apps.

In terms of storage, the Honor X7a is well equipped, but also slow since the phone only has eMMC flash. It only achieves about 1/3 of the transfer rates of UFS flash. On the Internet, too, you sometimes have to wait quite a long time until pages are loaded and photos appear.

Despite the comparatively low performance, the system heats up to 44.3 °C (~112 °F). That is clearly noticeable, but not yet critical, especially since the room temperature was a bit higher. However, this does not reduce the performance any further, as the stress test shows us: Even after numerous runs of a benchmark, the frame rates are constant. Unfortunately, the Honor X7a could not use 3DMark Wild Life, so we used the GFXBench T-Rex for the stress tests.

The mono speaker of the Honor phone is located at the bottom edge and does a poor job: Songs sound quite dull, even at maximum volume and at high frequencies there is usually only a little mush of sound. Audio devices connected via 3.5 mm jack or Bluetooth sound better.

The battery is ample with 5,330 mAh and manages a good runtime of 16:54 hours in our WLAN test. This should allow the user to work for two days without having to recharge the phone. If it is necessary, it can be recharged in less than 2 hours even when the phone is empty thanks to the 22.5-watt charger included.