Huawei under its Honor brand has launched the company’s latest smartphone – Honor 8 in India at a price tag of Rs. 29,999. It comes in Sunrise Gold, Pearl White, Sapphire Blue colour and it will be available on Amazon.in, Flipkart, Honor store online & also through offline retailers. it comes with extended warranty for 2 years, free replacement for 3 months for manufacturing defects and screen replacement warranty for 3 months. It is the successor of last year Honor 7 and the next-gen Honor 8 comes with new hardware, design improvements & more.
Commenting on the launch, George Zhao, President, Honor said:
“We recently celebrated the second anniversary of Honor in India. Honor has received an incredible amount of love and support for all of our products starting with Honor 6 in 2014 and are excited to launch three new offering to our customers. These three smartphones include- Honor 8, a sleek and elegant smartphone that boosts of our dual lens camera legacy; the Honor 8 Smart and we proudly announce our first ‘Make in India’; smartphone Honor Holly 3 coming from our Chennai plant. With this launch, we continue our India journey and promise to introduce even more high-quality, disruptive products in the market.”
On the specifications front, it features 5.2-inch Full HD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels and protected by 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass. It is powered by an Octa-Core Kirin 950 processor which is paired with Mali T880-MP4 GPU & 4GB of RAM. It runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system with EMUI 4.1 on top of it and it has 32GB in-built memory which can be expanded further up to 128GB via microSD card.
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On the photography front, the Honor 8 features dual 12-megapixel rear cameras, one with monochrome and other with color sensor to capture crisper, more detailed photos. The RGB sensor allows capturing rich colours while the monochrome sensor captures more light with increased sharpness. The camera also features dual LED flash, hybrid auto-focus, and laser autofocus for short range and depth focus for long range. Other features include screen-lock snapshot, virtual aperture shooting, night shot, professional mode, beauty mode, food mode, panorama, HDR, watermark, light painting, time-lapse, slow-motion, audio note, document scan, capture smiles, touch to capture, Sound Snap, delayed shooting, and face detection. The professional mode which gives you full manual control to control the shutter speed, exposure compensation and more. There is also a wide aperture mode that enables you to blur background to add DSLR-like blur effects. There is a 8-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.4 for selfie & video-calling.
It’s a single SIM variant and comes with connectivity features like 4G LTE with VoLTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, NFC, USB Type-C.
The smartphone measures in at 145.5x71x7.45mm, and weighs 153 grams.
There is a fingerprint sensor at the back and in-built IR sensor on the top which allows you to control home entertainment system such as TV, music player, projector, set-top-box, and consumer electronics products such as air conditioner.
It packs 3000mAh battery which claims to offer up to 8 hours of online video streaming & 24 hours for online music streaming. It also supports fast charging technology that can charge the smartphone from 0 to 47 percent in 30 minutes.
At such a price tag, the Honor 8 will compete with smartphone like Lenovo Z2 Pus, LeEco Le Max 2, Xiaomi Mi 5, OnePlus 3 and few others.
