Honor, which is Huawei’s Smartphone e-brand, had showcased its latest Honor 5X smartphone at the recently concluded CES 2016 in Las Vegas. Honor 5X got thumping applause from the visitors and tech media at CES. This highly acclaimed device is set to launch in India on 28th January.
The Honor 5X was awarded the following awards at CES, 2016:
Android Central – Top Pick for CES 2016
GottaBeMobile.com – CES 2016 Excellence Awards
Tom’s Guide – Best Smartphone
Android Authority – Best of CES 2016: the most impressive products from the show
PC Mag – The Best of CES 2016
The USP of Honor 5X is its fingerprint scanner which is placed behind the rear camera and comes with the company’s Fingerprint 2.0 technology, which is claimed to unlock the phone in less than 0.5 seconds. The other highlight is that this phone is packed with 3000mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 support to solve the problem of frequent charging.
Honor 5X comes in two variants of 2GB and 3GB RAM and rest of the features of both the variants are same.
Honor 5X sports a 5.5 inch full HD IPS display with a resolution of 1080×1920 pixels. Under the hood is Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processsir (four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.7GHz + four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.2GHz) paired with 2GB/3GB RAM and Adreno 405 GPU. This phone has internal storage of 16GB which can be further enhanced upto 128GB via microSD card.
On the photographic front, the Honor 5X has been provided with 13 MP rear camera with dual-LED flash. This camera incorporates f/2.0 aperture, 28mm wide-angle lens, 5P lens, and Blue Glass IR filter. For selfie lovers, this phone houses 5MP camera on the front with f/2.2 aperture, 22mm wide-angle, 4P Lens and Blue Glass filter.
This phone supports 4G LTE networks and also offers other connectivity options of Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, USB 2.0, GPS etc. This phone supports Dual-SIM and runs on Android Lollipop 5.1 OS with Emotion UI 3.1 superimposed on it.
In China, this phone was launched at CNY 999 and CNY 1,399 for 2GB and 3GB variants respectively, which work out to approximately Rs. 10,500 and Rs. 14,500 respectively. In India, this phone is expected to be in the range of Rs. 13000 to Rs. 16,000 for the 2GB and 3GB variants.
Stay tuned for more updates on 28th January!
