Honor 50
Honor is finally back; not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a ‘meh’ - the Honor 50 is the brand’s first globally-released smartphone in two years, but it’s not exactly an eye-catching new launch that could turn heads. In mid-2019, Honor was wrapped up in the Huawei ban shenanigans, which meant the brand’s phones couldn’t get Google apps - until January 2021, when Huawei sold its sub-brand to a conglomerate of Chinese companies. Honor unveiled the Honor 50 in July and the Honor Magic 3 in August, but neither was available to buy until now, with this re-launch of the mid-range device. This isn’t exactly an explosive re-launch either, and not just because we already knew everything about the phone. The Honor 50 is decidedly fine , and we didn’t have any huge issues with it, but there’s nothing it does particularly impressively in order to get ahead in the competitive mid-range market. Well, we presume mid-range based on the specs - we used a test unit for a week to write t...