Honor Announces UK Availability for the Honor 90

Honor has recently announced that the Honor 90 5G is now available for buyers in the UK. Honor’s recent midrangers have made a good impression so far, and it looks like the Honor 90 is set to continue that trend thanks to a nice set of features.

Design and Cameras

Upon handling the device, you’re immediately greeted by a large 6.7-inch AMOLED display with a 2664×1200 pixel resolution, with a maximum brightness of 1600 nits. It is a curved display, a design which will be very subjective among different users. The screen also houses the 50MP front-facing camera, an in-display fingerprint sensor, and comes with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz. Honor adds that the screen uses strengthened glass to add a bit of protection.

The rear panel houses the camera module, which arguably contains one of the biggest highlights of the device. The Honor 90 uses a large 200MP Main Camera with a 1/1.4-inch sensor, a 12 MP ultra-wide and macro camera with a 112° field of view, and a 2MP Depth Camera. Honor says that it has equipped the cameras with multi-frame fusion, a noise reduction algorithm and pixel binning to improve light capture in images.

Honor adds that the phone’s video capabilities have been fine-tuned for content creation, and features artificial intelligence (AI) for video denoising and video mode recommendations, and an AI “Vlog Assistant” that enables users to generate 15-second videos for use in social media. There’s also “omnidirectional noise reduction” onboard, with a signal-to-noise ratio of 20dB for audio recording.

Internals and Software

The phone comes with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset, and up to 512GB of internal storage and 12GB RAM for the super maxed-out version. For software, the phone ships with Android 13 onboard, although this is layered with Honor’s MagicOS 7.1, its proprietary Android skin. This does mean that the phone will come with a slew of preinstalled Honor-exclusive apps – including some third-party apps – although you can uninstall some of them.

For power, the Honor 90 runs on a fairly large 5000 mAh battery, which supports 66W fast-charging speeds – Honor says that a 15-minute top-up on a compatible fast-charger can replenish up to 45% of your battery, which is pretty useful especially if you’re in a pinch. There’s also a cooling system by way of a vapor chamber, that’s responsible for heat dissipation inside the phone.

Pricing and Availability

The Honor 90 will be available in three different colour variants including Midnight Black, Emerald Green and an exclusive Diamond Silver which can be purchased online via HiHonor. For buyers in the UK, the HONOR 90 will be available in the UK starting £449.99 for 8GB+256GB and £499.99 for 12GB+512GB, respectively.

Honor is also running a special promo for the 6^th to 18^th of July – buyers who use the code “AUKH905” while grabbing the Honor 90 via HiHonor before the end of July will also be able to purchase an Honor Pad X8 for just £9.99.

The HONOR 90 will be available to pre-order Amazon, Very and Currys on July 7. Customers who pre-order via these retailers between the 7^th-18^th July will receive an honor Pad X8 free of charge. With Argos, the Honor 90 will also be available starting on the 19th of July, and customers will receive a free Pad X8 until 2^nd August 2023. For Three customers, the HONOR 90 and HONOR 90 Lite will be available from the 26^th July, and customers will be able to trade-in their old smartphone and receive £250 off, plus a free Honor Pad X8.