Daily Star’s ultimate phone battle as Oppo Reno Pro 5G takes on the Honor 400 Pro

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Star’s own ‘I will take all the phones you can give me and test them for as long as possible’ expert Adam Cailler put the Oppo Reno Pro 5G and Honor 400 Pro through their paces

The smartphone market is arguably more congested than ever before. In a world filled with Samsungs, iPhones and Google devices, it can be hard for other makes to stand out.

However, the Daily Star has been given the chance to try two phones from underdog brands Oppo and Honor – and we put them to the test in the ultimate phone battle.

We’ve spent time with the Oppo Reno 13 Pro 5G and the Honor 400 Pro phones, both of which have features you won’t find anywhere else. So with both phones being priced around the £649.99 to £699.99 mark, how to they compare?

Let’s look at the specs first:

Honor 400 Pro

• Dimensions: 160.8mm x 76.1mm x 8.1mm
• Weight: 205g
• Display: 6.7-inch 1.5K (2800 x 1280) up to 120Hz AMOLED
• Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
• RAM: 12GB
• Storage: 512GB
• OS: Android 15 with MagicOS 9.0
• Primary camera: 200MP (f/1.9)
• Ultra-wide camera: 12MP (f/2.2)
• Telephoto camera: 50MP with 3x zoom (f/2.4)
• Front camera: 16MP
• Battery: 5,300mAh
• Charging: 100W wired, 50W wireless
• Colours: Lunar Grey, Midnight Black

Oppo Reno 13 Pro 5G

• Dimensions: 162.8 x 76.6 x 7.6mm
• Weight: 195g
• Screen: 6.83-inch FHD (1272 x 2800) 120Hz AMOLED
• Chipset: Mediatek Dimensity 8350
• RAM: 12GB
• Storage: 512GB
• OS: Android 15, ColorOS 15
• Primary camera: 50MP, f/1.8
• Ultra-wide camera: 8MP f/2.2 116-degree
• Telephoto camera: 50MP, f/2.8 3.5x optical
• Front camera: 50MP, f/2.0
• Audio: Stereo speakers
• Battery: 5,800mAh
• Charging: 80W wired, 50W wireless
• Colours: Black, lilac

Both phones compare pretty similarly when it comes to spec – bar battery size – so to save you from me going over every single detail, I’ll stick to the stand out bits of each phone.

Overall thoughts:

H onor 400 Pro: The look and feel of this phone is stunning. It’s smooth, sleek, has a great-looking camera section and the screen is sharp. While the cameras are very similar, where this one stands out is the AI features – specifically the AI Image to Video mode.

I had so much fun playing around with this, turning photos into short videos. It may sound like a simple feature, but nobody else has it and it really makes this phone stand out from the rest.

To be able to take your special memories and turn then into something more is something a lot of people could really value. And before anyone says “it’s just a gimmick,” I promise you it isn’t.

It’s surprisingly smooth, works well, and you’ll have hours of fun with it.

The other stand out of this phone is the Magic OS 9.0 software. I am very much a vanilla Android lover, but Magic’s extra touches actually improve it rather than making you annoyed about it, while also retaining somewhat of a unique Honor brand feel about it.

I’m giving this phone a 4.8/5 – it’s almost perfect, but could do with a bigger battery.

Oppo Reno Pro 5G: I struggled with this one, but not for the reason you might expect. This is a great phone, and provides some great features – but when you compare it to the Honor phone which is £50 cheaper, I can’t see why you would want to spend nearly £700 on it.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great phone with a great look, and fits well with previous Oppo phones – and its sister OnePlus brand – but you could put a Samsung logo on it or a Google logo on it and you wouldn’t know much difference.

It fails to stand out in a price-range full of devices looking to stand out – but it does win points for a great camera and great look, and a bigger battery than most at that price range.

There’s nothing overall wrong with it . . . it just doesn’t stand out.

4/5

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