
Most of this can be turned off, but the camera still seems to smooth skin out and add a glow that’s faintly unnatural. The selfie camera has many megapixels, an aggressive beauty mode, and artificial intelligence-driven enhancements. There’s also a portrait and aperture mode for bokeh shots. While noise is evident when you look closely, it’s not terrible, and the brightness and contrast levels will impress casual admirers when shared online. It’s low-light ability comes from the addition of Huawei’s Night Mode, which debuted on the P20 Pro, which holds the shutter open for longer than usual and employs artificial intelligence to sharpen the final photo. In fact, the Honor 10 Lite held its own against the phones in this camera test - most of which cost a lot more - in night time photos. The f/1.8 aperture even means low-light performance is decent too. This is fairly standard across many mid-range phones today, and there’s a good reason for this - the pictures it takes are solid, and easily good enough for social networking purposes. The Honor 10 Lite has a dual-lens camera on the back, made up of a 13-megapixel, f/1.8 aperture main sensor and a secondary 2-megapixel sensor. You’re really only compromising on materials, and even then, the plastic looks and feels very much like glass until examined very closely. This makes it instantly usable, as well as incredibly satisfying to own.

What makes us like the Honor 10 Lite is that it incorporates many of the best design elements from older phones - rear fingerprint sensors, great color schemes, and large screens - along with a modern style, without having too much experimental tech, such as in-display fingerprint sensors or pop-up cameras. Yes the chin bezel is quite large, but there is a 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom of the phone, so it can be forgiven. The fingerprint sensor is perfectly placed top-center on the rear, and very fast. The 8mm thick chassis is masked effectively with curved sides, and a “floating” screen above the body itself. The Honor 10 Lite incorporates many of the best design elements from older phones along with a modern style.
