Huawei Honor 4C vs Xiaomi Mi4i vs Asus Zenfone 2 (ZE550ML) vs Motorola Moto G (2 Gen): Specification Comparison

Early this week, emerging Chinese smartphone maker Huawei, which is slowly and steadily making its way up in the Indian market, launched feature-rich handset Honor 4C in India.

The new Honor 4C is endowed with a 64-bit class chipset, a sumptuous 2GB RAM, a 13mp camera and an expandable storage and it costs less than ₹9,000.

It is poised to give stiff challenge to popular brands like Xiaomi Mi4i, Asus Zenfone 2 (ZE550ML) and Motorola Moto G (2 Gen).

To provide a better perspective on these phones, we have briefly described the key specifications of Huawei Honor 4C, Xiaomi Mi4i, Asus Zenfone 2 (ZE550ML) and Moto G (2 Gen).

Display:

Huawei Honor 4C sports a 5.0-inch HD (1280x720p) IPS LCD screen with pixel density close 294 ppi (pixels per inch).

Asus Zenfone 2 (ZE551ML) boasts 5.5-inch HD (1,280x720p) IPS screen with wide 178-degree viewing angle. It also boasts of ASUS TruVivid display technology and is protected by Gorilla Glass 3 shield. 

On the other hand, the new Xiaomi Mi 4i flaunts a 5.0-inch full HD Sharp / JDI OGS (One Glass Solution) full laminated screen and having pixel density of 441 ppi (pixels per inch). It is protected by Gorilla Glass 3.

Moto G (Gen 2) sports a 5.0-inch HD (1280x720p) IPS screen with pixel density of 294 ppi (pixels per inch) and is protected by Gorilla Glass 3 shield.

YU Yureka features 5.5-inch HD (720x1280p) screen with 80-degree viewing angle.

Processor, RAM and Storage:

Asus Zenfone 2 ZE550ML houses a 64-bit class based 1.8GHz Intel Atom processor Z3560 respectively.

It is aptly backed by the PowerVR G6430 graphics engine, 2GB RAM and 16GB inbuilt memory (+ 64GB via microSD card).

Xiaomi Mi4i ships with the second generation 64-bit class based Snapdragon 615 Octa-core SoC (System on Chip), manufactured by the industry leader, Qualcomm.

One advantage of having 64-bit processor is that the phone performance and RAM management will more be optimised and efficiently used among the apps. Users are less likely to face lag during multi-tasking.

Snapdragon 615 chipset also comes with H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) which enables in faster computational operations. It will be aptly backed by Adreno 405 graphics engine, 2GB DDR3 RAM and 16GB inbuilt memory.

[Read more: Xiaomi Mi4i vs Mi4: Specifications Comparison and Everything You Need to Know]

Huawei Honor 4C boasts of company's proprietary 64-bit class proprietary Hisilicon Kirin 620 series Octa-core CPU, 2GB RAM, 8GB inbuilt memory

[Note: Android applications starting this year will roll out with 64-bit architecture compliant codes, making Xiaomi Mi 4i, Asus Zenfone 2 and Honor 4C future-proof.]

On the other hand, Moto G (2 Gen) features sub-par and old Snapdragon 400 series quad-core chipset. It has 2GB RAM and 16GB inbuilt memory (expandable up to 32GB).

Mobile Operating System:

In this aspect, all phones stand even as they run on the same Android platform, but differ in OS version and user-interface.

Honor 4C currently runs on v4.4 KitKat OS with Emotion v3.0 UI.

Xiaomi Mi4i comes with feature-rich custom MIUI v6.0, whereas the YU Yureka and Asus Zenfone run on Cyanogen CM12 S OS and ZenUI respectively.

[Note: YU has released new Lollipop based CM12S to Yureka last week]

Moto G (2 Gen) runs on near-stock vanilla Lollipop OS giving buttery smooth interface to the users.

Camera:

Huawei Honor 4C comes with a 13.0-megapixel with Sony BSI sensor, f/2.0 aperture, LED flash, full HD video recording, auto-focus features and on the front, it houses a pretty decent 5.0-megapixel camera.

Asus Zenfone 2 ships with a feature-rich 13.0-megapixel camera with PixelMaster technology, Backlight (HDR) mode, f/ 2.0 aperture, and 5mp snapper on the front with 88-degree field of view and also comes with ZenUI Selfie Panorama mode which can capture panoramic selfies with up to a 140-degree field of view.

Xiaomi Mi 4i too features a 13mp Sony/Samsung camera with dual-tone LED flash, f/2.0 aperture, auto-focus, HDR, touch-focus, full HD video recording ability and a 5mp snapper with 80-degree wide-angle lens, f/1.8 aperture with full HD video-recording ability, which is certain to please the selfie aficionados.

On the other hand, Motorola Moto G (Gen 2.) comes packed with 8.0-megapixel camera on the rear side with LED flash, Auto Focus, Slow Motion Video, Burst Mode, Auto HDR, Panorama, Tap to Focus, HD (720p) video recording ability and a 2.0-megapixel snapper on the front side with HD video-recording ability.

[Note: More mega-pixel count in the camera does not guarantee a good quality photograph. It all depends on the type of the lens, size and aperture.]

Price:

Price is one of the most important aspects of this comparison article as it plays a crucial role in the minds of the price-sensitive middle class working population, which form the biggest chunk of the India's demography.

In this aspect Honor 4C holds the upper arm as it comes with aggressive price-ag of just ₹8,999, whereas competitors Asus Zenfone 2 ZE550ML and Xiaomi Mi 4i cost ₹12,999 each.

[Read more: Asus Zenfone 2 Series Sold out in India; Second Batch to Hit Stores in Mid-May]

Moto G (2 Gen) made its debut more than eight months ago at ₹12,999, but it can now be grabbed for ₹10,999 on Flipkart.

Key specifications of Huawei Honor 4C, Xiaomi Mi4i, Asus Zenfone 2 (ZE551ML) and Moto G (2 Gen):