Honor Play review: GPU Turbo gaming phone with flagship Kirin 970.
Flagship chip, gamer price.
Honor Play packed the flagship Kirin 970 and Huawei's new GPU Turbo gaming optimisation into a $290 phone aimed at mobile gamers — flagship-class frame rates and 4D haptic feedback without the flagship price.
01Display
74/10074/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2018.
02Camera
64/10064/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2018.
03Performance
80/100At 80/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among mid-range phones of 2018 — 13 points above the cohort average.
04Battery
74/10074/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2018.
05Build
70/10070/100 puts it above the 67-point average for mid-range phones of 2018.
- Flagship Kirin 970 at a mid-range price
- GPU Turbo + 4D gaming haptics
- Good battery and value
- IPS not OLED
- Average camera
- EMUI 8.2 dated
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 3-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .