The HONOR 400 is one of the the hottest midrange phone for the month of June, as HONOR made a few improvements to it while making it more affordable than its predecessors. Another challenger it faces at its price point is the CAMON 40 Premier, which is the top end variant of TECNO’s CAMON 40 line. Both midrange phones are feature-packed–so how do they stack up against one another? Let’s check out in this comparo:

Design

Both phones have a boxy look with flat frame sides and flat displays. Both phones have a plastic frame, with the CAMON 40 Premier offering a higher IP rating at IP68/69 as compared to the HONOR 400’s IP65/66 rating. The CAMON 40 Premier has a huge camera module and a two-tone design, while the HONOR 400 keeps it minimalist with a small camera module and a relatively clean back panel.

Both phones don’t have a MicroSD card slot and headphone jack, but the HONOR 400 adds support for eSIM. Both phones do have stereo speakers, and the audio quality is roughly the same.

Display

While both phones feature AMOLED displays, they come with a different set of features. The CAMON 40 Premier uses a bigger panel with 144hz refresh rate, and uses an LTPO panel for finer refresh rate adjustment. The HONOR 400, on the other hand, has a more compact display with a high peak brightness of 5000nits and higher PWM dimming at 3840hz.

Both phones use a flat display that support 1 billion colors, and in our experience both deliver a flagship-like display experience.

Cameras

One of the biggest advantages of the CAMON 40 Premier is its cameras, where you have four 50-megapixel sensors that include one for the 3x periscope shooter–a camera that’s notably absent on the HONOR 400. The HONOR 400 may only have a 12-megapixel ultrawide with autofocus, but it makes good use of its 200-megapixel main camera with digital zoom to give you optical-like image quality at 2x and 4x thanks to AI tricks and post-processing.

While both phones can shoot 4K video across all of its cameras, the CAMON 40 Premier can shoot at up to 60FPS.

Internals

On paper, the CAMON 40 Premier is superior over the HONOR 400 with its Dimensity 8350 processor that’s paired with 12GB LPDDR5X RAM and 256GB UFS 4.0 storage. The HONOR 400 is still capable with its Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor, and offers more storage at 512GB, though it uses UFS 3.1. The CAMON 40 Premier will give you better peak performance, but the HONOR 400 is no slouch, as the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 is a reliable performer.

Battery

The HONOR 400 has a big advantage when it comes to this department: despite being smaller, thinner, and lighter than the CAMON 40 Premier, the HONOR 400 manages to pack a 6000mAh silicon-carbon battery inside, making it have significantly better endurance overall.

Aside from battery capacity, the HONOR 400 has faster charging speeds at 80w. The CAMON 40 Premier, on the other hand, trails behind nicely with its support for 70w charging.

Software

While both phones come with Android 15 out of the box, the HONOR 400 has a significantly longer software update commitment at 6 years, which is one of the best for a midrange phone. The CAMON 40 Premier, on the other hand, offers the usual 3 Android updates we expect on a phone in 2025.

When it comes to software features, the HONOR 400 has more refined AI features over the CAMON 40 Premier.

Price

The CAMON 40 Premier is priced at Php 21,999, while the HONOR 400 is priced at Php 22,999. While the CAMON 40 Premier appears to be better on paper with its hardware, the HONOR 400 leverages its advantage on software, specifically its refined set of AI features and a long update commitment.