Huawei Honor Play 3 Price, Features and Full Specs

Yesterday, the Huawei subsidiary introduced two new smartphones, one of them being Honor Play 3. During the last few days, there has been a lot of information circulating about this smartphone, leaving many fans extremely excited about its arrival.

However, Honor Play 3 has fallen far short of expectations and is far from qualifying as a 'budget' gaming smartphone.

What we can expect from Honor Play 3

For some time it was believed that it could come equipped with a high-end processor, but it did not happen. Honor Play 3 comes with the Kirin 710F controlling operations that, while quite competent, don't come close to the high performance of the Kirin 900.

For your memories, you will have a choice between 4GB / 6GB RAM and 64GB / 128GB internal memory. Not being the most impressive smartphone, it will surely be able to meet the needs of the vast majority of users.

Unfortunately, its 6.39 "inch LCD screen is unimpressive either, offering only HD + resolution. However, it comes with a punch hole in the upper left corner, which allows you to offer a higher body/screen ratio.

In the photographic segment, you will have a triple rear camera available. This camera consists of a 48MP main sensor, 8MP secondary sensor (ultra wide-angle) and a 2MP third sensor (depth). Dedicated to selfies is an 8-megapixel front camera.

Powered by a 4,000mAh battery with 10W fast charging support, the Huawei Honor Play 3 comes standard with Android Pie. However, contrary to rumors, you will have EMUI 9.1 and not MagicUI. Also, the presence of Turbo GPU technology has been confirmed.

Pricing and Availability

Unfortunately, only specific information from the Chinese market has been revealed, and price inflation is expected when it expands to other markets.

Still, its price in China will be quite interesting:

• 4GB RAM + 64GB = 138 $
• 6GB RAM + 128GB = 182 $

Full Specifications

Brand and Model

Brand

Huawei

Model

Honor Play 3

Model Alias

Honor Play3

Honor Play 3 Operating System (OS)

Android 9.0 Pie

EMUI 9.1

Honor Play 3 System on  Chip (SOC)

SOC

Huawei HiSilicon KIRIN 710

Process Technology

12 nm

CPU

4x 2.22 GHz ARM Cortex-A73

4x 1.7 GHz ARM Cortex-A53

CPU Bits

64 bits

Instruction Set

ARMv8-A

CPU Frequency

2200 MHz

CPU Cores

8

GPU

ARM Mali-G51 MP4

GPU Cores

4

GPU Frequency

1000 MHz

Honor Play 3 RAM Capacity

4 GB

6 GB

Other Features

GPU Turbo 2.0

i7 coprocessor

Ark compiler

EROFS super file system

Link Turbo

Honor Play 3 Storage

64 GB

128 GB

Honor Play 3 Memory Cards

microSD

microSDHC

microSDXC

Honor Play 3 Display

Type / Technology

IPS

Diagonal Size

6.39 in

162.31 mm

16.23 cm

Width

2.74 in

69.48 mm

6.95 cm

Height

5.77 in

146.68 mm

14.67 cm

Aspect Ratio

2.111:1

Resolution

720 x 1520 pixels

Pixel Density

263 ppi

103 ppcm

Color Depth

24 bits

16777216 colors

Other Features

Capacitive

Multi-touch

2.5 D curved glass screen

Honor Play 3 Sensors

Proximity

Light

Accelerometer

Compass

Fingerprint

Hall

Honor Play 3 Primary Camera

Aperture

f/1.8

Flash Type

LED

Image Resolution

8000 x 6000  pixels

48 MP

Video resolution

1920 x 1080 pixels

2.07 MP

Video FPS

60 fps

Features

Autofocus

Continuous shooting

Digital zoom

Digital image stabilization

Geotagging

Panorama

HDR

Touch focus

Face detection

White balance setting

ISO setting

Exposure compensation

Self-timer

Scene mode

Sensor size- 1/2"

Pixel size- 1.6 um (4-in-1 pixel binning)

Phase detection

Secondary rear camera- 8 MP (ultra-wide)

Aperture size- f/2.4 (#2)

Angle od view- 120 degree (#2)

Third rear camera- 2 MP (depth-sensing)

Aperture size- f/2.4 (#3)

Honor Play 3 Front Camera

Aperture

f/2

Image Resolution

3264 x 2448  pixels

7.99 MP

Video Resolution

1920 x 1080 pixels

2.07 MP

Video FPS

30 fps

Honor Play 3 Audio

Loudspeaker

Earpiece

Honor Play 3 Radio

Yes

Honor Play 3 Tracking /  Positioning

GPS

A-GPS

GLONASS

BeiDou

Honor Play 3 Wi-Fi

802.11b (IEEE 802.11b-1999)

802.11g (IEEE 802.11g-2003)

802.11n (IEEE 802.11n-2009)

Wi-Fi Hotspot

Wi-Fi-Direct

Honor Play 3 Bluetooth

Version

4.2

Features

A2DP

EDR

LE

Honor Play 3 USB

Connector Type

Micro USB

Version

2

Features

Charging

Mass Storage

On-The-Go

Honor Play 3 Headphone Jack

Yes

Honor Play 3 Connectivity

Computer sync

OTA sync

Tethering

VoLTE

Honor Play 3 Browser

HTML

HTML5

CSS 3

Honor Play 3 Audio File Formats /  Codecs

AAC

AAC+ / aacPlus / HE-AAC v1

AMR / AMR-NB / GSM-AMR

AMR-WB

eAAC+ / aacPlus v2 / HE-AAC v2

FLAC

MIDI

MP3

OGG

WMA

WAV

Honor Play 3 Video File Formats /  Codecs

3GPP

AVI

DivX

H.263

H.264 / MPEG-4 Part 10 / AVC video

H.265 / MPEG-H Part 2 / HEVC

MP4

VP8

VP9

WebM

WMV

Xvid

Honor Play 3 Battery

Capacity

4000 mAh

Type

Li-Polymer

Features

Non-removable

Charger Output Power

5 V / 2 A

Honor Play 3 Launch Date

Announced

2019, Sept.

Status

Release Sept. 2019

Honor Play 3 Price

4 GB + 64 GB = 138 $

6 GB + 128 GB = 182 $

Honor Play 3 Design

Colors

Night Black

Aurora Blue

Flame Red

Body Materials

Plastic

SIM Card

SIM Card Type

Nano-SIM (4FF-fourth form factor, since 2012, 12.30 x 8.80 x 0.67 mm)

Nano-SIM / microSD

Number of SIM Cards

2

Networks

GSM / LTE / UMTS

Mobile Network Technology and Bandwidth

UMTS (384 kbit/s)

EDGE

GPRS

HSPA

LTE Cat 12 (102.0 Mbit/s, 603.0 Mbit/s

Networks

GSM

GSM 850 MHz (B5)

GSM 900 MHz (B8)

GSM 1800 MHz (B3)

GSM 1900 MHz (B2)

UMTS

UMTS 850 MHz (B5)

UMTS 900 MHz (B8)

UMTS 2100 MHz (B1)

LTE

LTE 800 MHz

LTE 850 MHz

LTE 900 MHz

LTE 1800 MHz

LTE 2100 MHz

LTE 2600 MHz