Honor 600 vs. 600 Professional

The age-old query – the Professional or the non-Professional? This time it is both the Honor 600 or the Honor 600 Professional. The latter brings a handful of helpful options and {hardware} upgrades over the common Honor 600, but additionally provides one other €300 to the invoice.

Certain, you get a extra {powerful} chipset and a telephoto digicam, however the vanilla 600 will get you a great distance at a a lot decrease price. It has the identical flagship-grade show, identical battery capability, identical fundamental digicam and helps 80W quick wired charging just like the Honor 600 Professional.

Nonetheless, a complete comparability requires a deeper dive, so let’s go take a look at the information and see which one is a greater match for you.

Desk of Contents:

For starters, you possibly can examine the whole specs sheets or straight proceed with our editor’s evaluation within the following textual content.

Measurement comparability

The 2 handsets share similar designs and construct. Each have customary glass entrance panels, plastic backs and aluminum frames. The ingress safety is IP68/IP69K and even the accessible coloration choices do not differ.

Nevertheless, the usual Honor 600 has a slight edge over the Professional because it weighs about 10 grams much less. However let’s be sincere right here, we’re splitting hairs.

Show comparability

There’s not a lot to touch upon in relation to shows. The 2 Honors share the identical show panels, measurement and feature-wise. It actually would not matter which one you’d choose in relation to image high quality.

Battery life

How about battery life? To our shock, the Honor 600 Professional beat the Honor 600, regardless of its extra power-hungry chipset. At the least should you examine the Lively Use Scores.

Nevertheless, there is a bit extra nuance within the battery outcomes. In case you are primarily net shopping and streaming movies, the Honor 600 could be a greater choose for you. The Honor 600 Professional is just higher for longer gaming classes, which is a bit unusual contemplating that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset is significantly extra {powerful}, and one would anticipate larger energy consumption. However that is one other subject.

Backside line is, take the Professional should you intend to sport, in any other case the Honor 600 will do you higher in case your display time is primarily net shopping or video streaming.

Notice that we have examined the European Honor 600 and 600 Professional variations, which include 6,400 mAh batteries, not 7,000 mAh just like the worldwide and Chinese language iterations.

Charging pace

For the reason that two Honors share the identical 7,000 mAh battery and charging tech, 80W over a cable utilizing an Honor SuperCharger, it is no shock that we acquired comparable leads to our charging assessments. There is not any sensible distinction between the 2 units on this regard – they cost equally quick.

However, the Honor 600 Professional helps 50W wi-fi charging, which can be fairly snappy. So should you prefer to maintain your cellphone on a wi-fi charging stand or have already got wi-fi charging equipment to your automotive, the Professional is the precise selection.

Speaker take a look at

The 2 speaker units exhibit roughly the identical loudness and tuning. They don’t seem to be one of the best of their respective courses, however you do not actually stand to achieve or lose something should you go for the cheaper Honor.

Efficiency

Efficiency is the largest hole between the Honor 600 and 600 Professional and doubtless the principle motive why you’d wish to spend just a little further for the Professional. It has final 12 months’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, whereas the Honor 600 settles for a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 silicon. The Elite is clearly much more {powerful}, however we’ll let the figures converse for themselves.

However earlier than we get to the benchmark outcomes, word the reminiscence configuration variations. The Honor 600 begins from 8GB/128GB, whereas the Professional’s entry reminiscence possibility is 12GB/256GB. Notably, the vanilla Honor 600’s base variant is virtually the 8GB/256GB model, which is less complicated to seek out for some motive. Nevertheless, it caps at 12GB/512GB, whereas the Professional can be bought in 16GB/1TB taste.

Benchmark efficiency

Unsurprisingly, the Honor 600 Professional’s Snapdragon 8 Elite beats the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 by a landslide. It earns greater than twice as many factors in key benchmarks, making it a a lot simpler choose for players.

Then once more, going for the extra {powerful} chipset can even offer you peace of thoughts in the long term. Extra {powerful} chipsets are likely to age higher, so in a approach, the Professional may be thought of as a extra future-proof answer.

Each handsets are entitled to six main OS upgrades.

Digital camera comparability

Neither mannequin adjustments a lot within the digicam {hardware} in comparison with the earlier mannequin, and the differentiator between Professional and non-Professional stays the higher-tier mannequin’s telephoto digicam – the Honor 600 would not have one. The three.5x zoom module on the 600 Professional is the principle motive to spend the additional money, and if you end up zooming in so much, that might be the clever factor to do.

The principle cameras on the again function 200MP sensors and 24mm equal stabilized lenses, although the vanilla mannequin outputs its default information at 27mm, whereas the Professional makes use of its native area of view.

The ultrawide cameras are based mostly on standard RGB sensors (versus a Quad Bayer sort one) with a 12MP decision, paired with 16mm lenses that function autofocus.

The selfie cameras lack autofocus, however the mixture of a 50MP sensor with a 21mm equal lens is straightforward to love – on each telephones.

The 600 and the 600 Professional each have the Honor AI button that may be assigned to launch the digicam app and act as a shutter launch button.

Picture high quality

Daylight

Whereas the 2 telephones might have similar fundamental cameras, the vanilla 600 takes barely completely different photos at 1x, beginning with the already talked about 27mm equal focal size on the 600 vs. the 24mm on the Professional – it is a small distinction, however it’s not unnoticeable.

One other subtlety is within the larger saturation, most seen in greenery, that the vanilla 600 tends to provide – each approaches ship pleasing colours, and white steadiness is reliable on each telephones, it is simply that the 600’s pictures might need just a little further pop. Dynamic vary is large on each, distinction is nice. Element is great too, with a little bit of a bonus for the Professional in dimmer indoor circumstances.

Daylight, fundamental digicam (1x): Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

Equally, the Professional will get you a minor benefit in sharpness at 2x zoom, however the non-Professional is excellent itself.

Daylight, fundamental digicam (2x): Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

The place the Honor 600 trails its extra esteemed Professional stablemate to a big diploma is zoom in energy past 2x. The Honor 600’s fundamental digicam does handle to place out good outcomes at 4x in outside scenes – not pin-sharp, however nonetheless fairly good – however sharpness does drop indoors. The Professional’s devoted 3.5x zoom digicam is clearly a serious benefit in relation to attain.

Daylight, telephoto: Honor 600 (fundamental digicam, 4x) • Honor 600 Professional (telephoto digicam, 3.5x)

Each ultrawides seize strong outside photographs and preserve good high quality indoors as nicely. The Professional might have a miniscule benefit in sharpness outdoor, however that fades indoors the place the shadow softening is about the identical on each. The vanilla mannequin nonetheless has a bit extra punch in its colours, however hues are trying nice general. Distinction is usually a contact larger than we would like on each telephones.

Daylight, ultrawide digicam (0.6x): Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

Low gentle

At evening, you possibly can anticipate excellent outcomes from each fundamental cameras. Photos have correct white steadiness and nice colours. Admittedly, exposures do are usually just a little darker than we would like, however that is apparently Honor’s approach, and even so, there’s nonetheless good shadow element, and highlights are nicely preserved. The 600 Professional has a minor benefit within the darkest of scenes, we’ll give it that.

Low-light, fundamental digicam (1x): Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

High quality does drop at 2x, however we would nonetheless contemplate the Honor 600’s outcomes good – in absolute phrases, however much more so for its class. If you need barely higher photographs at 50-ish millimeter focal size, the Professional gives you these, however it would not be a large distinction.

Low-light, fundamental digicam (2x): Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

Zooming in to 4x is not actually advisable on the Honor 600 at nighttime, except you will solely be viewing the photographs on the cellphone itself, otherwise you’ll be sharing them closely compressed anyway. That stated, even at fit-to-screen magnification on a pc, you will in all probability have the ability to spot the blotchiness. That is the place the premium for 600 Professional will justify itself – should you plan to be capturing past 2x, significantly in low-light settings.

Low-light, telephoto: Honor 600 (fundamental digicam, 4x) • Honor 600 Professional (telephoto digicam, 3.5x)

After darkish, there is a little bit of noticeable distinction between the 2 fashions’ ultrawides – the Professional tends to be just a little cleaner, whereas the vanilla cellphone leans in the direction of much less noise discount. Both approach, you would be getting nice dynamic vary and good coloration rendition.

Low-light, ultrawide digicam (0.6x): Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

Selfies

Selfies in good gentle are very comparable from the 2 telephones, and they’re certainly wonderful. As gentle ranges drop, the 600 will present a extra noticeable drop in high quality, and at evening pictures will probably be softer nonetheless – the Professional is meaningfully higher at dealing with lower than preferrred gentle.

Selfies comparability: Honor 600 • Honor 600 Professional

Video high quality

The Honor 600 can report video at as much as 4K30 with its fundamental digicam and you need to change to 1080p if you would like 60fps seize – the 600 Professional would fortunately do 4K60 as nicely, which is the place its telephoto maxes out too. Each ultrawides are capped at 4K30, with no 60fps modes even at a decrease decision and the selfie cameras can do 4K30 or 1080p60.

The vanilla 600 would not help HDR video recording – the Professional presents HDR Vivid for all high quality modes, and this simply could be a differentiator.

Daylight movies from the principle cameras are excellent on each telephones, with the vanilla 600 presumably being barely sharper than the Professional. Each have correct exposures, excellent dynamic vary, and great-looking colours. The plain 600 does pretty good high quality 2x clips, however if you need zoom energy, you would be higher off with the Professional’s 3.5x telephoto, naturally.

The ultrawides are about on par, with the 600’s footage being just a little further contrasty on high of the Professional’s already fairly expressive look.

Daylight video screengrabs, Honor 600: 0.7x • 1x • 2x

Daylight video screengrabs, Honor 600 Professional: 0.7x • 1x • 3.5x

At evening, the 600’s fundamental digicam is on the noisy aspect of common, however there’s additionally loads of element to go along with the grain. As compared, the Professional does handle to extract a bit extra from the shadows at 1x, and it is cleaner too.

You simply would possibly have the ability to get away with 2x zoom on the 600, with out profitable any sharpness contests. The telephoto on the 600 Professional is once more onerous to rival on this bout, even when it isn’t completely nice in isolation –  it strikes a very good steadiness between noise and element, struggling just a little with dynamic vary.

Neither ultrawide is usable for video at nighttime, so not so much to decide on there.

Low-light video screengrabs, Honor 600: 0.7x • 1x • 2x

Low-light video screengrabs, Honor 600 Professional: 0.7x • 1x • 3.5x

Verdict

On the time of writing, the value hole between the Honor 600 and 600 Professional with 256GB storage is about €300. The Professional prices practically twice as a lot because the vanilla mannequin. So anybody on a price range will seemingly choose the usual Honor 600.

In truth, the common 600 makes a very good case for itself by providing the identical show and fundamental cameras, higher net shopping and video streaming runtimes and the identical software program help.

However, the Honor 600 Professional is a correct almost-flagship cellphone with rather more {powerful} {hardware}. The telephoto digicam is a large benefit, and so is the twice-as-powerful chipset, which may be thought of a future-proof funding. The added quick wi-fi charging is a pleasant bonus, too.

It is onerous to offer you a definitive reply, as a result of the value distinction is sort of huge and so is the function disparity. It is determined by how a lot you propose on utilizing a telephoto digicam and whether or not a strong SoC just like the Snapdragon 8 Elite will probably be put to good use. If the reply to each is sure, then you definitely might need to interrupt the financial institution and get the Professional. In any other case, the vanilla is completely fantastic, too.