Honor Play review: Perfect blend of style and substance in midrange segment

From price to specifications, the Honor Play ticks all the right boxes; it may not be the best-looking smartphone because of its metallic build, but it has everything else that a flagship device does

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s sub-brand Honor recently launched the Honor Play, with top innards, premium metallic design, dual rear cameras with artificial intelligence for automatic scene selection and notch-based screen.

The Honor Play is an interesting component of the brand’s midrange offerings for two reasons. First, priced at Rs 19,999 for the base model with 4GB RAM, the phone is the cheapest Huawei and Honor-branded device with the company’s flagship Kirin 970 system-on-chip (SoC), similar to processor that powers the Rs 60,000 Huawei P20 Pro. Second, it is a smartphone with which Huawei has debuted GPU Turbo technology to