Huawei Y7a Review - Android

A couple of days ago, Huawei released one of its most affordable mid-range smartphone, the Y7a. Many people were impressed with its specs considering...

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A couple of days ago, Huawei released one of its most affordable mid-range smartphone, the Y7a. Many people were impressed with its specs considering that it comes with such a budget-friendly price tag. Apart from what we’ve already discussed in our hands-on, let’s find out what else the Y7a has to offer.

Design and Construction

Undoubtedly, the Y7a is one of the prettiest and attractive smartphones we’ve seen. It comes in this subtle pink gradient with its faint pink tinge in the middle. No wonder this colorway is called Blush Gold. It does look like blush. However, it’s prone to fingerprint smudges and scratches due to its glossy coat, so users might have to slap on a jelly case to remedy that.

The body is made up of plastic, but it feels premium and solid. We love its slim profile, and holding it feels comfortable. It also comes with quite a heft at 206g.

Checking out its rear, we get the vertically-stacked 48MP AI quad-camera setup, along with the Huawei branding.

Upfront, we see a rather large dot notch in the middle of the screen that houses the front camera and the call speaker and sensors on top of it.

We have the volume keys and the power/lock button acting as the fingerprint sensor on the right side. The buttons feel sturdy and have a tactile feel to it.

We have a triple card slot that can accommodate a dual nano-SIM and a dedicated microSD card slot on the left side.

Then up top, we get a noise-canceling microphone.

Down below, there’s the USB Type-C port, the primary microphone, the 3.5mm audio port, and the single speaker grille.

Display and Multimedia

For display, the Y7a sports a 6.67-inch Full HD+ IPS display with a resolution of 2400 x 1080. As far as quality goes, it’s great. The colors are vibrant and punchy. It’s got a widescreen real estate, so users will definitely enjoy watching content on this device. There’s an option to hide the notch, just in case, it bothers you.

Users can also tweak the settings by adjusting the screen’s color mode and temperature to their liking and changing the screen’s resolution to either High (2400 x 1080) or Low (1600 x 720) to consume less battery. However, in our case, we mostly just used the Smart Resolution as it adapts when it will automatically lower the resolution when it has to.

As for audio quality, it’s actually not that bad. It’s loud and clear, though there’s a noticeable distortion when the volume is set at max. But other than that, it’s enough for casual listening. Users may use the earphones that come with the box for a better listening experience.

Camera

The Y7a gets a quad-rear setup consisting of a 48MP main, an 8MP 120-degrees ultra-wide, a 2MP depth, and 2MP macro sensors. It also comes with a 6x zoom. Meanwhile, for selfies, it comes with a single 8MP front camera.

It also comes with a bunch of camera features, including Aperture (bokeh), Night, Portrait, Pro, Slow-mo, Panorama, Light Painting, and High-Resolution, to name a few. We tried its AI Lens feature, which is similar to Google Lens, and it wasn’t the quickest. The instant translation isn’t instantaneous, to say the least, and the calorie counter doesn’t sometimes recognize food and is seldom inaccurate. But the good news, though, is the rest of the AI features work fast.

Now for image quality, they’re good. It comes with the right amount of sharpness, though color reproduction seems a bit saturated, even with AI turned off. Basically, what the AI does is boost the image’s saturation, and at times, there’s not much difference with it turned off or on, so we prefer just having it turned off most of the time. The ultra-wide lens also does a pretty decent job, and we appreciate that it doesn’t produce much distortion. The 6x zoom isn’t too terrible either.