Huawei’s Honor has launched two new smartphones Honor 8X and Honor 8X Max today at an official event in China that comes with an AI dual rear camera. The Honor 8X comes with a display with a 4.25mm narrow chin and a 91% screen-to-body ratio. The Honor 8X Max comes with narrow bezels and a 90.5% screen-to-body ratio. Both have bigger batteries with 8X Max having a 5000mAh battery.
The Honor 8X is priced at 1399 yuan (around $204) for the 4GB RAM with 64GB inbuilt storage, 6GB RAM with 64GB inbuilt storage variant is priced at 1599 yuan (around $234) and 1899 yuan (around $278) for the top-end 6GB RAM with 128GB inbuilt storage variant.
Honor 8X specs
It comes with Black, Blue, Red, and Purple colour options and is currently available for pre-orders in China. It will go on sale starting from September 11th in China. The Honor 8X Max is priced at 1499 yuan (around $219) for the 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage options and the 128GB inbuilt storage variant is priced at 1799 yuan (around $263). It will go for sale starting from September 11th in China. The Snapdragon 660 variant of the device with 6GB RAM and 64GB storage will go on sale in October.
The Honor 8X features a 6.5-inch Full HD+ 19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display with 2340 × 1080 pixels resolution and is powered by an octa-core Kirin 710 12nm (4 x 2.2GHz Cortex-A73 +4 x 1.7GHz Cortex-A53) with ARM Mali-G51 MP4 GPU. It comes with 4GB RAM with 64GB storage, 6GB RAM with 64GB / 128GB internal storage with expandable storage up to 400GB with the microSD card. It runs on Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.2 on top and supports Dual SIMs.
It features a dual rear camera with a 20-megapixel camera along with LED flash, f/1.8 aperture, along with a 2-megapixel secondary camera, 480 fps slow-mo recording. It comes with a 16-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture. It has a 3750mAh battery with fast charging and supports Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS connectivity options. It has a fingerprint sensor on the rear side. It measures 160.4×76.6×7.8mm and weighs 175 grams.
The Honor 8X Max features a 7.12-inch Full HD+ 18.7:9 2.5D curved glass display, 72% NTSC Color Gamut and 2244×1080 pixels resolution and is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 660 14nm Mobile Platform (Quad 2.2GHz Kryo 260 + Quad 1.8GHz Kryo 260 CPUs) with Adreno 512 GPU / 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 636 14nm Mobile Platform with Adreno 509 GPU.
It comes with 4GB RAM with 64GB / 128GB internal storage and 6GB RAM with 64GB inbuilt storage options and with expandable storage up to 256GB with the microSD card. It runs on the Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.2 and supports hybrid Dual SIMs. It features a dual rear camera with a 16-megapixel camera with LED flash, f/2.0 aperture along with a 2-megapixel secondary camera with f/2.4 aperture. It has an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture.
It is backed up by a 5000mAh battery with fast charging and supports Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS connectivity options. It has a fingerprint sensor on the rear side. It measures 177.57×86.24×8.13mm and weighs 210 grams.
