The trend has gone from people buying smartphones for its camera to buying the best smartphones for playing PUBG!
The new Honor Play is business as usual for Huawei’s under-brand. A marriage of surprisingly good specs, premium-esque design and a mid-range price tag is Honor’s modus operandi, but the Play was created with a specific demographic in mind: The avid mobile gamer. While most phones are more than capable of running games, the Play has a couple of special features that are supposed to give you, the player, an advantage over the competition.
The first of these is called GPU Turbo, but you won’t find this mentioned in any settings menu or performance-tweaking app. It’s something that runs behind the scenes, but it isn’t unique to the Play. The Honor 10 also has GPU Turbo built in, and a software update is going to add this hidden feature to some of the brand’s other devices in the very near future. It’s said to improve performance of the Honor Play’s Kirin 970 processor by up to 60 percent and reduce power consumption by up to 30 percent. But Honor’s arrived at these figures by comparing performance against the previous-gen Kirin 960, not the same Kirin 970 before the update, so they are pretty confusing statistics. What it’s supposed to do for resource-intensive games, though, is to improve frame rate and keep it consistent.
There are a couple of more general points about the phone that make it at least slightly better suited to games than other devices. The octa-core Kirin 970 chip was the best chip Huawei had to offer until all of five minutes ago. That said, it powers flagship phones like the P20 Pro, and there are no bottlenecks elsewhere with 4GB of RAM and 64 gigs of expandable storage to tap.
You also get a big 6.3-inch, full HD+ screen (2,340 x 1,080) to stare at, and the bigger the screen, the bigger the target. My first impression was this might be a double-edged sword — the size and 176g weight (around 6.2 ounces) being a bit too unwieldy for serious play sessions — but I quickly became comfortable with the dimension. A 3,750mAh battery means you don’t need to worry about running out of juice too quickly, though the game you’re playing, screen brightness, data requirements and the rest will of course affect rundown rates.
The full article/review at Engadget
