Huawei y7 prime 2018 review in Spanish (full analysis)

The Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 is one of those smartphone models that is updated from time to time to be in accordance with the current specifications that the market demands. This time we talk about a terminal rather low-end but that performs quite well for those looking for a cheap smartphone for day to day. Among the main features is a renewed version of Android, the inclusion of the dual camera, higher performance and even a larger screen extension, which now adapts to the 18: 9 format. In contrast, a few milliamps are lost along the way.

We thank Huawei for the loan of the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 for its analysis:

Technical characteristics

Unboxing

The Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 comes in a box with a minimalist design as usual. Premium white color and the front shows only the company logo at the top and the colorful and large model number in the central area. The central part is limited to showing some of the available features. The interior of the box maintains the white color in the different inserts that protect the different components that are included:

• Huawei Y7 Prime 2018. Type B microUSB charging cable. Power adapter. SIM tray extractor. Warranty card.

Design

With the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 a design has been achieved, which although it does not provide any novelty, ends up being beautiful and offers a well-resolved ergonomics. The design has among its main factors with rounded lines both in edges and in corners along with a finish that seems premium but is not. The back, for example, despite the excellent metallic finish it provides, is made of plastic.

This takes away some quality from the final product, which is not intended since we are talking about a fairly low price range, but in return you gain a good grip on the hand, a characteristic that metal or glass sometimes lacks..

Continuing with comfort, we are talking about a terminal that has only 155 grams of weight, it is not one of the minors but it does not feel heavy at any time. The fact of having a screen of almost 6 inches and 76% of useful surface does not greatly affect the final size of the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 as it has quite minimized edges. The final measurements remain at 76.7 x 158.3 x 7.8 mm.

The front, as mentioned above, in addition to having a curved 2.5D glass, has tiny edges on the sides although somewhat wider at the top and bottom. At the bottom edge, there are no physical buttons, just the Huawei logo. In the upper area are the front camera for selfies, the LED flash, the proximity sensor, the speaker for calls and the notification LED.

The back of the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018, in addition to coming in a nice metallic electric blue color, has in the upper left corner the double camera arranged horizontally and next to them the LED flash. Also next to this flash is surprisingly the noise canceling microphone, which is normally located on the upper side edge. In the upper central area, we find the fingerprint sensor.

As far as the side edges are concerned, the top edge is clean of any components. The left edge differs from the upper one by including the slot for the microSIM tray. Two microSIM and a microSD card can be placed in it.

The right side edge is not far from other models and includes the volume button at the top and immediately below the on / off button. Finally, the bottom edge houses the 3.5mm audio jack connector, the microUSB type B connector, the microphone for calls and the speaker for multimedia content.

The Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 can be found in blue, black and gold.

screen

For this model, Huawei decided to mount a IPS LCD screen with a good 5.99 inches with HD + resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels, which offers an 18: 9 format and a density of 269 pixels per inch, a somewhat low density even for such a terminal. Obviously this fact is given by the need for both cost savings and battery. This resolution will be noticed and taken into account by those who are more foodies, but it will be useful for those who are less demanding.

Regarding the quality of the screen, the colors shown, without being oversaturated, are displayed quite correctly. The depth of the black color, as is common in this type of IPS screens, does not reach the purity of other types of technologies. On the other hand , the contrast of 1000: 1 without being one of the best, behaves.

The viewing angles are not bad at all, but like the other features, they lack to be good.

The brightness of 450 nits indoors is more than enough but outdoors with the sun shining fully on the screen, visibility is complicated. It is a useful shine for shadier areas.

From the screen settings we can modify the color mode if we wish, being able to choose between the default, warm, cold or custom.

Sound

The sound on the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 sounds quite powerful from the multimedia speaker. The sound quality even at high volume is not bad and it sounds clear. However, it lacks a little more packaging to the set, and they offer a greater range in the mid frequencies.

As for use with headphones, things get a little better when it comes to the default EQ. Also at this point we have at our disposal some extra settings included by Huawei to configure and improve the sound.

OS

At this point it is not surprising that the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 arrives with Android 8.0 Oreo as standard, but it is appreciated that it is not left behind. This version of Android is complemented by the EMUI 8.0 customization layer. This layer despite slightly varying the stock design, maintains robust use and no appreciable bugs. Most of the changes are cosmetic like icon design and using folders on the home screen instead of the app drawer. One of the features that most attract us the attention of EMUI is the large number of pre-installed applications that it brings. Not only Huawei's own tools and software but third-party apps such as Booking, Ebay, Instagram, etc. and various games. Too much bloatware together. With things like these, it's normal for people to prefer Pure Android.

We can find some specific options in settings such as the smart screen resolution to save battery, which does not have much effect; the ability to remove digital buttons and move around the system with finger gestures; a system in giant, simple and minimalist mode for the elderly; and we will even have the option of having a "safe" to save our most sensitive data using a password.

In general, although moving through the system is not as fast as other high-end models, it can be said that the system responds correctly and efficiently while not requiring too much work. On these occasions, there may be some slowdown.

performance

Huawei assembles the 2015 processor: eight-core Snapdragon 430, four of them at 1.4GHz and the other four at 1.1 GHz. This is accompanied by the Adrenos 505 GPU and 3GB of LPDDR3 RAM.

The performance offered by this set is relatively solvent with the usual day-to-day apps such as social networks, navigation and playback of videos or not very demanding multimedia content. If we want to give it more cane and use it for games that ask for a high graphic quality, the SoC suffers and gives a rather mediocre performance. Another problem that occurs on these occasions is the slight overheating that the rear end suffers, which although it is not alarming, does not please either.

The score given by AnTuTu is 58, 990. Being slightly surpassed by terminals such as the Xiaomi Redmi S2 or Xiaomi Redmi 5.

Regarding internal memory, we will only have a 32 GB model. Without becoming scarce, his would have been to have 64 GB but luckily we can make use of a microSD card.

The fingerprint sensor, once configured, works quite well. It does not offer a super fast unlock speed, but it is what is expected of it.

A surprise was knowing that the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 had unlocking through facial recognition, and the truth is that for a low-end terminal, I was surprised by the results offered. In well-lit environments the unlocking is precise in most cases and the unlocking is carried out in a few milliseconds without becoming instantaneous as in high-end models. Of course, at night or in poorly lit surroundings, the recognition quality suffers and works much more erratically.

Camera

One of the new additions to this revision of the previous model is the double rear camera. It is composed of a 13-megapixel CMOS-type main camera with 2.2 focal aperture, autofocus, digital zoom, burst shooting, HDR, and white adjustment. The secondary camera by contrast, has only 2 megapixels and is focused on supporting the main camera in the realization of the fashionable Bokeh or Blur Effect.

Photographs taken in good light have a really good amount of detail and sharpness compared to what I expected. However, the focus is sometimes somewhat slow and this causes many snapshots to be somewhat out of focus and have to be repeated. On the other hand, the colors captured by the camera are fairly accurately represented. Occasionally, it is true that they are somewhat washed out and lack some saturation, and that performance can also be translated into the representation of the contrast. When making some captures, we can see how the contrast is shown more or less correctly but in many of them, it will be necessary to use HDR, on whether you want to correctly portray the sky.

In places with artificial light, the quality of both the details, the focus and the colors drastically decreases, making it really more difficult to get really good images since the grain and blur are the predominant trend.

In night scenes, the comments in the upper paragraph are further accentuated but with the added disadvantage of the lack of light in the photographs, probably as a result of the lack of a greater focal aperture.

For a terminal that shoots for the low range, what has been achieved with photos in good light conditions is a great step, but you cannot stretch that gum much more and it is in the absence of light that the sensor defects are revealed.

The Bokeh Effect made by Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 is decent. At first glance it seems to be done well but in some photos the effect applied on the border between the focused object and the background is not well achieved.

The camera interface is simple, too simple. The bad thing about it is that it leaves you a lot of the modes and options in another secondary tab, with the consequent waste of time in terms of searching for what you want and returning to the main interface.

Video recording allows a maximum resolution of 1080p at 30 fps. The recording is a little erratic, sometimes the image is out of focus by itself and tends to be somewhat blurred.

The front camera for selfies has 8 megapixels and has similar defects to the rear. There are times when capturing good images and others where blur, grain and contrast will spoil the image. It is therefore convenient to fine tune the shot when we see on the screen what may be the best possible shot.

Battery

Including 3000 mAh would seem like a wise decision for a terminal like this, however, after testing the terminal for a couple of weeks, we have been able to conclude that autonomy falls short. With daily use of social networks, web browsing and video playback, we have managed to reach the end of the day with little battery power or with a very low level and achieving 5 hours of screen. After use, a couple of hours after waking up in the morning, the battery level was already at 85%.

The 4000 mAh included in the previous model would have come that not even painted, even at the cost of gaining a few more grams of weight.

This time we do not have a fast charge to charge the terminal. This implies that charging half the battery takes us around 1 hour, while we will need 2 and a half hours for a full charge. A somewhat disappointing time if we are used to the increasingly fast loads that most models present.

Connectivity

Among the connectivity options we find some that are kept in an obvious way and some absences like the NFC, which is so good to pay. Among the available technologies include: Bluetooth 4.2 LE, Wi-Fi 802.11b / g / n, A-GPS, GPS, GLONASS, LTE and FM radio.

Final words of the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018

We come to the end of the analysis and we see many points against the Huawei Y7 Prime 2018, honestly it is not something that surprises and it is that, obviously we are not talking about a mid-range terminal, much less a high-end, we are talking about a terminal of low-end designed by one of the greats of the moment when it comes to smartphones. This helps in some aspects such as the operating system, which is robust and in the successful design.

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In many other sections, savings in production costs are noted as a premium over higher quality, but the company knows, like buyers, that this is not a terminal for those who seek quality before everyone or for those who control phones, this Huawei Y7 Prime 2018 is for those who want something cheap and settle for or need little. But, although it can be enjoyed with an HD + screen and with a useful performance for the day to day, the low battery life can be a bad thing that throws back many people. They should put the batteries with it in any range.

In conclusion, we have a low-cost terminal that performs well for use in everyday applications, that feels good in the hand and takes correct photos in good light but with limited autonomy. Its sale is exclusive to Amazon at a price of € 199.

ADVANTAGE	DISADVANTAGES
+ Photographs with good light good.	- Difficult sometimes that the photos turn out well. With less light, they come out very uneven.
+ Good design.	- Fair performance.
+ Good price.	- Occasionally overheats.
+ Optimized operating system.	- Low autonomy.
+ Correct face unlock for a low range.	- Low screen resolution.

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