Honor 200 Pro review

Display

The Honor 200 Pro features a 6.78-inch OLED display with 1,224 x 2,700 px resolution (437ppi), 120Hz refresh rate, 10-bit color depth and HDR10 support. It has a pill-shaped cutout and curved tempered glass on top of the panel.

The screen also supports up to adaptive 3840Hz PWM Dimming and up to 4,000 nits peak brightness.

We have completed our display test, of course, and the brightness measurements are slightly lower than we expected them to be. The maximum manual brightness was alright at 614 nits, but the maximum automatic one was 1,110 nits. All flagships and many midrangers even can go higher than that. We can confirm that it can be much brighter, north of 2,000 nits, in smaller white patches (think HDR video).

The minimum brightness at point white was 2nits, in line with what most phones can do these days.

Refresh rate

The Honor 200 Pro supports 120Hz refresh rate - that much is clear but there is no public info on its variability. This means the OLED panel is most probably not an LTPO one.

There are three refresh rate modes - Dynamic, High and Standard. The Dynamic option uses 60Hz in many apps like Play Store, Netflix, YouTube, office apps, some browsers, while High forces 120Hz where possible. We did not see the refresh rate go down to 60Hz for static images, but we know from experience that the Android refresh rate indicator might not work reliably on Honor phones.

The Standard mode always uses 60Hz.

HDR and streaming

The phone supports HDR10 and Widevine L1 DMR. Its hardware is successfully recognized as supported among popular apps like Netflix, Prime, YouTube and they offer at least 1080p HDR10 streaming.

You also get Ultra HDR functionality for displaying extra bright highlights in your photos in the Gallery. However, only the main cam can capture Ultra HDR jpegs.

Battery life

The Honor 200 Pro is powered by a large 5,200mAh battery, which should be enough to get you through a whole day of heavy usage. The battery is using the first-gen Silicon-Carbon, pioneered by Honor.

The phone scored an Active Use Score of 11:08h on our battery life test, which is an average rating. It did well on the call test; it can stream video for about 13 hours, but its web browsing and gaming scores are a bit below the average.

Charging speed

The Honor 200 Pro supports 100W fast wired and 66W fast wireless charging. Both reverse wired and wireless charging options are also available.

The retail box contains both the 100W power adapter and the 6A-rated USB cable, so you don't need to shop for a compatible charger unless you are hellbent on charging it wirelessly as fast as possible.

The bundled charger refilled 42% of the Honor 200 Pro's dead battery in 15 mins, 75% in 30 mins and 100% in 45 mins.

There are various battery charging optimizations such as a charge limit to 80% and a smart option that is useful for overnight charging.

Speakers

The Honor 200 Pro boasts a stereo speaker setup with one full-blown speakers at the bottom of the phone and the earpiece acting as a second one. The latter has two outlets - one front-facing and another top-facing.

The speakers are balanced well, and the sound appears to be nicely loud.

The Honor 200 Pro scored a Very Good mark on our loudness test. The last volume step is shown as 200% instead of 100% and it offers a boost in the high-frequency range, distortion-free, so you can hear louder. Without the said boost, the loudness is just Good.

The audio quality is okay, but nothing impressive. There is some bass, well-presented high range, but the vocals and the mid-tones are average.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.