The Honor 10 Lite, the latest budget smartphone from the Huawei sub-brand, makes a bad first impression. It's plagued by spam notifications, tied down with aggressive battery management settings, and puts its face recognition software front and center despite that feature clearly not being ready for...

Minimal notch; Big colorful screen; That headphone jack

Shoddy Bluetooth performance; Aggressive battery-saving options; Micro USB

Honor continues to succeed in making the best cheap phones in the business. The Honor 10 Lite is a steal at £200. Here our full review

The cemented itself as one of the best phones around the £400 price bracket, now the Honor 10 Lite is here to take ever that made its namesake so appealing and distil it down into a device that costs half as much.

Attractive design for the price; Decent battery life; Included case; Feature rich

Heavy skinned software missing key features; Poor gaming performance (pre-GPU Turbo 2.0 update; Prone to fingerprints; Plastic build

It might not have the same silky stock Android-feel of the Motorola Moto G6 nor the same camera performance or include a more modern USB-C port, but the Honor 10 Lite is great in other areas.

Impressive performance; Stunning design; Fast rear-mounted fingerprint sensor

Opts for microUSB over USB-C; Doesn't match the Moto G6's camera performance; Design attracts fingerprints

So the HONOR 10 Lite was announced yesterday (8 January 2019), the smartphone does not have a specific launching date yet but just so you know for today (9 January 2019) at 10AM later - the 3GB + 32GB model will have a special sale for RM699 (RRP is RM749) at hihonor.com.my and Lazada Malaysia .

When it comes to something you'll use every day like a phone, cheap and cheerful will only get you so far. The Honor 10 Lite looks the part and can take a decent enough snap for the price, but eventually its quirks will turn into irks. Performance is mediocre, the plastic build is a reminder of how much you paid for it every time you slip it out of your pocket, and the software just won't leave you alone. Backwards steps like microUSB charging are disappointing in 2019, too. When the Moto G6 Plus costs only £10 more, the Honor 10 Lite is a tough sell. A neat-looking notch and skinny screen bezels just aren't worth the software headaches that come with it.

Styling looks the part; Skinny screen bezels and subtle notch; Affordable price;

App and game performance not up to snuff; Software too intrusive; Plastic build feels cheap;

Honor made quite a splash when it returned to the Philippines last April 2018, offering quite a number of competitive offerings including the Honor 9 Lite. The phone proved to be a solid device to build momentum for their comeback in the Philippines, sporting mid-range features for not much money.

Styling looks the part; Skinny screen bezels and subtle notch; Affordable price;

App and game performance not up to snuff; Software too intrusive; Plastic build feels cheap;

The Honor 10 Lite is the latest in a recent wave of mid-range smartphones that look like flagships, following the Nokia 7.1 , Motorola One and Honor's own Honor 8X .

Striking design at a great price; Runs Android 9; Ample storage

Micro USB port feels dated; Camera images overly processed; Mono speaker

With 2019 underway, the bridge between flagship smartphones and more affordable options are expected to narrow down significantly. This year, we will see what were once considered as flagship features will now suit everyone's pockets and give you value for money features that were inadmissible in...