Just as last year was coming to an end, Honor suddenly launched a gaming phone, the Honor Win, with some very eye-grabbing hardware: a built-in fan to keep the silicon cool and a 10,000 mAh battery.
This is more than twice the battery capacity of the iPhone 17 Pro Max, and perhaps most impressively, the Honor Win isn’t noticeably thicker or heavier than the iPhone. In fact, going by the spec sheets, the Honor Win is actually 0.5mm thinner and 3 grams lighter, though to my hands, this difference was not perceivable, as the two phones felt almost identical in dimensions and shape.
Honor was able to cram such a larger battery in the frame due to the company’s pioneering silicon-carbon battery technology, which allows for more juice to be put in a denser battery body.
The Honor Win’s 6.9-inch OLED display also has a refresh rate up to 185Hz, and though the list of games supporting 185 frame rate is small, I did manage to test them and they did indeed run at 185fps (frames-per-second) smoothly without hiccups.
The Honor Win running a game at 185fps.
Ben Sin
The built-in fan is cleverly hidden in the camera module, appearing like a part of the camera lens, and keeps the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 running cool. Though I have to be honest, you have to be really pushing the phone, playing a graphically intensive game continuously for over 15 minutes to really notice any difference. What I’m trying to say is the fan is useful only if you’re a heavy gamer. I’m a casual gamer and I almost never needed it.
But the extra battery is very useful even if you’re not a gamer, because it can essentially power the phone for two full days with normal usage. So even if you are not a gamer, the Honor Win, which retails in China for about equivalent of $500, is an excellent option for those who want tremendous battery endurance and a beautiful screen.