Honor, a sub-brand belonging to the Chinese company Huawei, which primarily sells products online is set to launch Honor 7X in India in December. The Honor 7X is already launched in China few weeks ago. In a recent interview, company’s Global President George Zhao said that Huawei will introduce the Honor 7X at an “unbeatable price”.
Honor 7X is the successor to Honor 6X and is improved basically in terms of design when compared to Honor 6X. It now flaunts a sleeker metal unibody design while, the dual rear camera setup at the back is now placed in a horizontal style. The Honor 7X will be available both online as well as offline as the company aims to improve its offline retail presence.
The company’s Global President George Zhao said at an interview with IANS “We will launch Honor 7X in December at such a price that it will have no competitor in that segment”. He further added, “We have the capability to out compete other dominating players in the Indian smartphone market in terms of quality, but our marketing efforts need to improve”, hinting towards stepping up company’s marketing efforts in India.
The biggest feature of Honor 7X is definitely the 5.93-inch FHD+ (1080 x 2160) screen with 18:9 aspect ratio. It sports dual cameras at the back with 16 MP & 2 MP sensors. The job of the 2 MP sensor is to capture the depth data for bokeh shots only. It packs an 8 MP selfie shooter. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat based EMUI 5.1, a Honor custom skin and is powered by the octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 659 SoC with the Mali-T830 MP2 GPU coupled with 4 GB RAM. The battery is powered at 3,340 mAh. It comes in three storage variants i.e. 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB.
Coming to connectivity on Honor 7X, it comes loaded with all options such as 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, LTE, GPS and GLONASS. It comes with hybrid SIM slot, so users can either use two SIM or a single SIM and a memory card. Users can expand the storage up to 256 GB by adding a microSD card. Honor 7X is priced at CNY 1,299 (approximately Rs. 12,890), CNY 1,699 (approximately Rs. 16,850), and CNY 1,999 (approximately Rs. 19,820), respectively for the 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB variants in China.