Honor 600 review

Flagship-grade 6.57-inch OLED display

The Honor 600 features the same display as the Honor 600 Pro. That's a 6.57-inch OLED panel with 1264 x 2728px resolution and 120Hz refresh rate. It's not too big, but it ain't small either - pretty good for anyone looking for a manageable middle ground.

Additionally, the phone supports high-frequency 3840Hz PWM for users with sensitive eyes. And while the specs sheet mentions only HDR Vivid as the only supported HDR video standard, the phone plays nicely with Netflix and YouTube, so you can expect standard HDR Video compatibility across the board.

Honor is particularly proud of two things here - brightness and bezels. The latter measures at around 0.98mm, giving the phone a premium and modern look. As for brightness, it's marketed to be up to 8,000 nits.

Honor 600

In the standard manual mode, we got more than 800 nits on a 75% white patch, while in auto mode, with the Sunlight mode enabled, the screen maxed out at more than 1,700 nits. This is ideal even for use on a bright sunny day.

When measuring on a much smaller 10% white patch, the screen pushed went above 6,700 nits, which is quite impressive, and it's enough to ensure an exceptional HDR experience.

Refresh rate

Since the display uses a standard LTPS OLED panel, it doesn't support granular refresh rate control, so it can only switch between 60, 90 and 120Hz modes. The Dynamic mode switches between those modes automatically, meaning it will dial down to 60Hz when the screen is idle and boost to 120Hz in most cases.

However, many third-party apps were capped at 90Hz, including Chrome. Forcing the High refresh rate mode boosts that to 120Hz.

Battery life

The Honor 600 relies on a fairly big 6,400 mAh battery and features a mid-size 6.57-inch OLED panel, while the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 does the number crunching. We tested the battery life on the European unit, but users outside the EU are likely to get the 7,000 mAh version, so expect around 10% longer battery life.

In any case, even with a smaller battery, this version of the Honor 600 earned a respectable 16:58h Active Use Score. That's better than most competitors, but a tad lower than the Honor 600 Pro, for example. The OnePlus 15R is the only one that stands out in this comparison, with considerably longer battery life than the Honor 600.

Charging speed

The Honor 600 supports up to 80W fast charging over a cable, as long as the phone is paired with a compatible Honor SuperCharge charger. The USB-C to USB-C cable is supplied in the box, but you will need to buy the charger separately if you reside in the EU.

In our tests, the Honor 600 performed well. It charges pretty fast, going from 1 to 100% in about 47 minutes, which is a tad faster than most, but marginally so. The Xiaomi 15T and last year's Honor 400 Pro are the only ones that significantly outperform the Honor 600.

The handset also supports relatively fast reverse wired charging at 27W. Honor says it's compatible with iPhones, which probably means you can fast charge an iPhone using the Honor 600, but we haven't measured the charging power in this scenario.

When it comes to battery protection, the Honor 600 provides a handful of features. You can set a charging limit at 90%, 80% or even 70%. There is also a toggle called Smart battery capacity, which promises to stop charging before the battery is actually full to its top capacity. It's not clear just how far off, though, and the phone still shows 100% charged in the process. Finally, there's a Smart charging toggle that charges the phone to 80% and then keeps it there overnight before finishing the top-up just in time for you to start using your phone.

Speakers

The Honor 600 offers a standard hybrid stereo speaker setup. The top speaker acts as both an earpiece and a loudspeaker, while the bottom is the main, full-fledged loudspeaker. Naturally, the bottom one is a tad louder with more pronounced bass.

Honor has implemented a volume boost feature that bumps up the loudness by 200%, if the loudness slider is to be trusted. The volume boost sits one step above the 100% level on the volume slider.

However, the phone scored lower with the volume boost, which we believe is a software bug that will likely be fixed. The highest loudness score we got, which was without the volume boost, is -25.1 LUFS. That earned the phone a "Very Good" score.

In any case, we published the music tracks without the loudness boost as sound quality tends to be better without it. Still, we aren't exactly impressed with the tuning. Music tracks sound relatively flat, with suppressed vocals and barely noticeable bass. The Samsung Galaxy S25 FE and the OnePlus 15R both produce warmer and fuller sound, for example.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.