Honor, Huawei’s e-brand has announced the official roll out of Face Unlock update for its highly successful Honor 7X. The Face Unlock feature will be available via HOTA (Huawei’s Over the air update), and will be completed by mid-March 2018 as stated by the company in its press statement. After the Honor View10 and Honor 9 Lite, Honor 7X will be third smartphone in Honor’s portfolio to support Face Unlock feature. Now these phones have two security features – fingerprint scanner and face unlock.
Launched in December 2017 in India, Honor 7X flaunts a 5.93-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ display with 18:9 aspect ratio display and 2.5D curved glass. This phone has thin bezels on top and bottom, and is almost bezel-less on the sides.
Besides bezel-less display, this phone is powered by Huawei’s own Kirin 659 octa-core processor (4 xA53 at 2.36GHz + 4 x A53 at 1.7GHz) with MaliT830-MP2 GPU and mated with 4GB RAM. It comes with internal storage variants of 32GB / 64GB which can be further extended up to 256GB with microSD card. This phone gets life from 3340mAh battery.
On the photography front, this phone is mounted with two rear cameras – 16MP primary camera and secondary 2MP camera with features of PDAF, LED Flash, HDR and capability of 1080p video recording @30fps. For selfies, it houses an 8MP front camera with flash.
This phone runs Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1 on top. It also incorporates fingerprint sensor on the back. This phone offers connectivity options of 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 LE, GPS / GLONASS.
This phone is available at No Cost EMI also which is available on all major credit cards. It is available in Blue, Black and Gold color for INR 12,999(32 GB) and INR 15,999(64 GB) only on Amazon.in.