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Honor 80 SE

Honor 80 SE
R6,000
SKU: 3428
Brand: Honor
Category: Mobiles
Available
  • CPU: Octa-core (2x2.4 GHz Cortex-A78 & 6x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55)
  • RAM: 8GB/12GB
  • Storage: 128GB/256GB
  • Display: OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz
  • Camera: 64MP
  • OS: Android 12, MagicOS 7

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

6
  • Display 6 / 10
  • Camera 6 / 10
  • Performance 6 / 10
  • Battery 6 / 10

PROS

  1. Large OLED display.
  2. Powerful Large battery.
  3. Best features under budget

CONS

  1. FM Radio was unavailable.

The HONOR 80 SE 5G has established an attractive position in the South African mid-range smartphone market, offering a more affordable entryway into the style-focused HONOR 80 family. Starting at approximately ZAR 6,000, this device stands out by delivering a premium, curved display and fast charging speeds at a price point where flat, plastic-heavy builds usually dominate.

While that ZAR 6,000 baseline serves as a highly accurate national benchmark for an upfront cash purchase, your final in-store price will naturally vary depending on localized regional store specials, the province you are purchasing from, and fluctuating retail stock levels.

Where to Buy the HONOR 80 SE in South Africa

HONOR’s established supply chain ensures the device can be tracked down across major digital commerce spaces, traditional retail storefronts, and major cellular networks.

1. Traditional Department Stores & Supermarkets

If you want to view the phone’s sleek profile in person, purchase directly at a local counter, or utilize store cards and flexible interest-free installment platforms (like PayJustNow), look to these national chains:

  • Makro & Game: Highly popular destinations for secure upfront cash purchases, electronic specials, and seasonal tech promotional weekends.

  • Foschini: Perfect if you intend to buy the phone using an integrated fashion and retail group account to comfortably spread your payments over several months.

  • Mr Price (MRP Cellular), PEP, & Ackermans: These highly accessible, nationwide neighborhood chains excel at offering affordable prepaid starter bundles and quick cash checkouts, crossing both urban hubs and smaller towns.

2. Specialized Tech Retailers & Online Marketplaces

For immediate nationwide doorstep delivery, competitive pricing comparisons, and dedicated technical setups, check out these channels first:

  • Takealot: South Africa’s premier e-commerce platform is an excellent spot to hunt for the HONOR 80 SE, where competing third-party tech sellers often run aggressive clearance discounts or targeted voucher price-cuts.

  • HiFi Corp & Hi Online: Standard stockists for HONOR’s value and mid-tier lineups, frequently hosting flexible, interest-bearing finance plans or bundling the hardware with promotional lifestyle accessories.

  • Cellucity & 4U: Specialized independent cellular outlets that excel at immediate device insurance registration, custom protection plan setups, and personalized data migration support.

3. Mobile Network Operators (Contracts & Upgrades)

If you prefer to preserve your immediate cash flow and split the price of your phone across a 24-month or 36-month timeline, network carriers heavily support this device:

  • MTN & Chatz Connect: As primary mobile network partners, they feature the HONOR 80 SE across multiple monthly subscription tiers. These contract options integrate small monthly device fees with everyday data and all-network calling minutes, making it highly affordable on a month-to-month basis.

What Makes the HONOR 80 SE a Smart Mid-Range Choice?

Rather than navigating a dry list of internal component numbers, here is a breakdown of what this smartphone actually delivers to elevate your daily mobile experience:

Premium Curved OLED Screen: Easily the most striking feature at this price point is the premium 6.67-inch curved OLED display running at a fluid 120Hz refresh rate. It brings a sleek, flagship-style visual aesthetic to a mid-range budget, delivering vibrant color contrasts and deep blacks that make streaming local content an absolute pleasure.

  • Slim, Featherlight Design: HONOR paid meticulous attention to ergonomics here, crafting a chassis that is exceptionally thin (only 7.7mm) and lightweight. It sits comfortably in the hand, making long sessions of reading or scrolling through social media effortless.

  • Blazing-Fast 66W SuperCharge: Built to minimize down-time and get you back on the move quickly, the device features ultra-fast charging capabilities. You can juice up the battery to over 50% in roughly fifteen minutes, providing heavy reliability through power updates.

  • Sharp 64MP Triple Camera Setup: The rear camera array is anchored by a high-resolution 64MP primary sensor designed to take crisp, vibrant daytime photos, clean wide-angle landscapes, and steady close-up portraits without losing color depth.

  • Smooth Everyday 5G Multi-tasking: Powered by an optimized MediaTek Dimensity processor, the device guarantees swift 5G connectivity for rapid downloads, lag-free video streaming on local networks, and highly responsive everyday app multitasking.

Full Specifications

General

Brand Honor
Model Honor 80 SE
Announced 23 November, 2022
Released 09 December, 2022
Status Available
Price ZAR 6,000

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones. Bar
Dimensions 161.3 x 73.4 x 7.7 mm (6.35 x 2.89 x 0.30 in)
Weight 175 g (6.17 oz)
Colors Black, Blue, Pink, Crystal Blue

Network

2G Network
3G Network
4G Network
5G Network
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages. Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor) OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz
Size 6.67 inches, 107.9 cm2 (~91.2% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1080 x 2400 pixels (~444 ppi density)

Media

Audio Playback
Video Playback
FM Radio No
Ring Tones
Loudspeaker

Camera

Main Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality. 64 MP, f/1.8, (wide), PDAF
5 MP, f/2.2, (ultrawide)
2 MP, f/2.4, (macro)
Camera Features HDR
Video 1080p@30fps
Selfie Camera 32 MP, f/2.4, (wide)
Camera Features HDR
Video 1080p@30fps

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device. Android 12
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface. MagicOS 7

Hardware

Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming. Mediatek Dimensity 900 (6 nm)
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone. Octa-core (2x2.4 GHz Cortex-A78 & 6x2.0 GHz Cortex-A55
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion. Mali-G68 MC4
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices. 8GB/12GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored. 128GB/256GB
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras. No
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device. Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, proximity, compass

Connectivity

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices. 5.1, A2DP, LE
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world. Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot
USB USB Type-C 2.0, OTG
Positioning GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky. GPS, GLONASS, BDS
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Battery

Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium. Li-Po 4600 mAh, non-removable
Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device. 66W wired, 3-80% in 30 min (advertised)

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