Honor Play 70C is the cheapest device they’ve made in 2026. The Honor Play 80 Plus 5G is right above it. Both phones were released back-to-back in China yesterday. Whatmobile already did a full coverage for the former. This is everything we have on the more premium Honor Play 80 Plus 5G.
This newcomer is from the Play series, so you are looking at a basic set of hardware. Its only claim to fame is that it’s the first handset to use a Snapdragon 4 Gen 4. The chip will unlock 5G. They actually announced the platform back in December 2025, but we never got to see this chip in action until now.
Snapdragon 4 Gen 4 is a 4nm SoC, and it pushes the clock speed to 2.3 GHz. The base clock goes up to 1.95GHz. Sadly, the GPU has not changed at all. Adreno 613 GPU is carried over to the 4 Gen 4. At least it has more efficiency and some oomph when it comes to AI tasks.
The rest of the phone has that same entry-level recipe we’ve grown accustomed to. They put a weak screen and a weak camera on the device, and added a big battery for consolation. The Honor new budget model is built around a 6.61” TFT LCD (only 720p HD+ resolution).
The pixels are pushed at a 120Hz rate. Everything runs on Android 16 Magic OS 10 by default. There’s a subpar 13MP shooter on the back. And the screen side punch hole is where you’ll find a 5MP selfie snapper. IP64 rating on the Play 80 Plus means it is splashproof only.
The cameras will do 1080p videos at just 30 FPS. Safe to say that its optics are nothing to write home about, but that may not be the case for the battery. You’ll be glad to hear that it actually has a Si/C Li-Po 7500 mAh cell that could supposedly last two days per charge.
The official charging support for it is 45W, which is also fast enough for most users. There’s a side fingerprint reader and a single speaker in essentials. That huge battery made it a chunky 8.3” phone, though it does have a sturdy enough build for a 1.8-meter drop protection. Honor Play 80 Plus 6/128GB variant’s base price is CNY 1,699 (~PKR 69,000).
