Honor 400 Lite: Price, Specs, Features & First Look

I bought the Honor 400 Lite with my own cash, stuck my SIM in it, and used it like any normal person—no PR samples, no fancy studio shots. Below is the stuff I wish someone had told me before I hit “checkout.” If you want specs, scroll to the blue table; if you want the “will it break on day three?” answer, stick around for two minutes.

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What you actually pay

Official Honor store (Germany, France, Italy):
8 GB + 256 GB = €269 pre-order, €299 once the early-bird stock is gone.
Hack: open the Honor Student Program page – any .edu or even a local library-card number is accepted – and the cart drops to €239.
UK readers: Amazon UK has a voucher that clips to £229; the grey import guys on eBay are already at £219 but you lose the 2-year EU warranty.
USA: no LTE band 71, so T-Mobile rural folk should skip. Everyone else can grab the global version on Amazon US for $329 shipped; it arrives DHL in 4 days, no customs in sight (at least for now).

Simple Features In Honor 400 Lite

Feature	Honor 400 Lite
Screen	6.7″ flat AMOLED, 120 Hz, 3 500 nits peak
Chip	MediaTek Dimensity 7025 Ultra (6 nm)
RAM + Storage	8 GB + 256 GB (also 12 GB version) microSD slot
Main Camera	108 MP Samsung HM6, f/1.75, no OIS
Ultra-Wide	5 MP, fixed focus
Selfie	16 MP, punch-hole
Battery	5 230 mAh, 35 W wired (0-100 % in 92 min)
Software	Android 15 + MagicOS 9, 6 years security updates
Extras	IP65, SGS 5-star drop grade, AI shutter button
Price (street)	€239 student deal / £229 UK voucher / \$329 import
What’s missing	3.5 mm jack, wireless charging, eSIM, US band 71

Size & feel

161 mm tall, 74.5 mm wide, 7.3 mm thick, 171 g.
The back is matte plastic, so it stays grippy even when your palms sweat on the subway. The flat aluminium sides are not the cold-roll Apple uses; they’re softer, almost like the old iPhone 5C.
No case in the box; spend the €9 for Honor’s clear bumper – it keeps the 7.3 mm thickness and stops the camera island from wobbling on the desk.

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Screen In Honor 400 Lite

6.7″ AMOLED, 120 Hz, 1080 × 2412.
Auto-brightness maxes at 1 200 nits in sunlight, but there’s an extra “Sunshine mode” toggle that kicks it to 3 500 nits for 5 minutes – long enough to read a boarding gate in high summer.
Colour settings: “Vivid” is Samsung-level saturated, “Natural” is close to sRGB. I left it on Natural; whites don’t shift pink like the Poco X7

Performance For Honor 400 Lite

Call of Duty Mobile: “High” graphics + “High” frame rate (60 fps) runs flat; “Very High” (90 fps) is greyed out – that’s the Dimensity 7025 Ultra ceiling.
Everyday stuff: 42 tabs in Chrome, WhatsApp, Spotify, Maps – no reloads.
Antutu v10: 473 k, sits between Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 and 778G.
Genshin Impact: 55 fps average at Medium, 37 fps at High, phone peaks at 42 °C – warm but not “oh-no-I-need-oven-mitts”

Camera In Honor 400 Lite

108 MP Samsung HM6 main, f/1.75, no OIS.
5 MP ultra-wide, fixed focus.
16 MP selfie, f/2.45.

Daylight: colours are a touch warmer than real life; dynamic range beats the Redmi Note 13 Pro but loses to Pixel 7a.
Night: shutter is 1/14 s handheld; keep your hands still and you’ll get usable shots. Night mode needs 2 s, don’t use it on moving taxis.
Ultra-wide: 5 MP is soft; use it only for Instagram stories where nobody zooms in.
Selfie: skin-tone algorithm is less “K-beauty” than Samsung, guys with beards won’t look plastic.
AI Erase: one-tap removes tourists; works 8/10 times, fails on striped backgrounds.
Video: 4K 30 fps only on the main lens; stabilisation is electronic, not optical – walking footage is smooth, running footage is jelly.

Battery In Honor 400 Lite

5 230 mAh, 35 W brick in the box.
My day: 2 h Spotify Bluetooth, 1 h YouTube, 45 min camera, 3 h WhatsApp/Telegram, 1 h Maps navigation, always-on display.
Screen-on time: 9 h 15 min, left house 7 am, hit 15 % at 11 pm.
Charge: 0-50 % in 29 min, 0-100 % in 1 h 32 min. No wireless, no reverse.

Software In Honor 400 Lite

Android 15, MagicOS 9.
Six years of security patches promised (yes, up to 2031).
Pre-installed junk: 12 apps (Booking, WPS, LinkedIn, etc.).
Uninstall routine: Settings > Apps > Show system > disable “com.hihonor.dreamservice” and “com.hihonor.android.hwouc” if you don’t want random game ads in the folder.
After purge: 18 GB used out of 256 GB, 4.1 GB RAM free on the 8 GB model.

What I miss

No 3.5 mm jack (USB-C dongle works, but I lost two already).
Single speaker, bottom-firing; it’s loud but tinny at 100 %.
Notification LED is gone; always-on display is the only blink.
No eSIM – physical SIM only, second slot is microSD or SIM, not both.

Who should not buy it

T-Mobile US rural riders (missing band 71).
Wireless-charging addicts.
People who need 3× optical zoom – digital 3× is okay, not great.
Power users who insist on custom ROMs; bootloader is locked in most regions.

“It’s the first €250 phone that doesn’t make me wish I’d saved for a flagship.”

If that sounds like faint praise, it isn’t – I’ve been doing this since the Galaxy S3 days. The Honor 400 Lite is the new default answer when someone asks “What Android should I get if I hate spending money?”