Honor 8A Prime – Budget Phone With Fingerprint Scanner & 64GB Storage

The Honor 8A Prime is quite an affordable smartphone that was introduced by Huawei to the Rusian market. The new budget device arrived in a decent body that has a fingerprint scanner, a good battery and also enough storage. The camera setup on the Honor 8A Prime is not that bad as well.

Design And Display

The Huawei Honor 8A Prime comes in a modern body design that features the combination of glass and plastic. The phone back and frame are built with plastic while the front has a glass. It comes with a smooth panel that houses just a single snapper, an LED flash, and a fingerprint reader. It has body dimensions of 156.3 x 73.5 x 8.2 mm and weighs 150 grams.

The Honor 8A Prime packs a waterdrop notch that has a screen display size of 6.09 inches with an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen. The screen has a resolution of 720 x 1560 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio and 282 ppi density.

Honor 8A Prime

Camera Features

On the camera aspect, the maker equipped the device with a rear camera of 13 MP that has f/1.8, PDAF with other features such as LED flash, HDR, panorama and the camera can shoot 1080p@30fps video resolution. The front camera on the phone is 8 MP with HDR support for selfies and video calling.

Hardware And Software

On the inside, the Honor 8A Prime has a Mediatek MT6765 Helio P35 chipset that is built on 12 nm process technology. It comes with an octa-core processor clocking at a speed of 2.3 GHz. The PowerVR GE8320 GPU will ensure good graphics while gaming and the phone run on the Android 9.0 Pie operating system with EMUI 9 user interface.

Storage Capacity And Sensors

The Honor 8A Prime has an internal storage of 64GB coupled with 3GB for a smooth performance. It comes with a dedicated slot for SDcard that users can be used to expand the memory. It has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner with other sensors such as accelerometer, and proximity.

Honor 8A Prime specs

Battery Power And Network Connectivity

The Honor 8A Prime has a nonremovable battery of 3020 mAh without fast charging technology. The battery, however, should be able to last a full day when fully charged. It also comes with dual SIMs that have 4G LTE network and others that include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, Bluetooth, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, FM Radio and micro USB 2.0.

Honor 8A Prime Full Technical Specifications

General

Device Type Smartphone
Model Name Honor 8A Prime
Announced 2020, March 30
Released Released 2020, March 30
Status Available

Network

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 – SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS)
4G Network LTE band 1(2100), 2(1900)
5G Network n/a
SIM Type Micro-SIM
SIM Slot Dual SIM

Data

2G GPRS Up to 32 to 48 kbps; EDGE – up to 236.8 kbps
3G Up to 42.2/5.76 Mbps
4G Yes, up to 150/50Mbps
5G n/a
Speed Up to 150Mbps
Web Browser Yes, HTML5

Design

Type Glass front and Plastic back
Dimensions 156.3 x 73.5 x 8.2 mm
Weight 150 grams
Protection n/a
Colors Black, Blue, Green

Display

Display Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 6.09 inches
Resolution 720 x 1560 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio
Colors 16M colors
Pixel Density 282 ppi
Touch Screen Yes
Protection Yes
Features n/a
Secondary Display n/a

Camera

13 MP
Yes
1080p@30fps
LED flash, HDR, panorama
Yes
8 MP

Software

Android 9.0 (Pie); EMUI 9
Yes
Yes
Facebook Yes
Youtube Yes

Hardware

Mediatek MT6765 Helio P35 (12nm)
CPU Octa-core (4×2.3 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A53)
Graphics processor PowerVR GE8320
32 GB RAM
Internal Storage 64 GB
microSD
Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, proximity
Controls

Connectivity

Yes, Bluetooth 4.2, A2DP
Infradeeppink n/a
Wi-Fi Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot Yes
USB Type Type – C
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
NFC
HDMI
n/a

Battery

Battery Type Li-Po Battery
Capacity 3020 mAh battery
Placement Non-removable
Fast Charging
Wireless Charging
Standby
Talk Time
Music Play

Messaging

SMS Yes (threaded view)
MMS Yes
Email Yes, IMAP4, POP3, SMTP
IM Yes

Media

Yes, MP3, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, WMA, MIDI, WAV, AC3, FLAC
Yes, 3GP, Mp4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 player
n/a
n/a
Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
MP3, WAV
Yes, with stereo speakers
3.5mm jack Yes

Other Features

  • Compatibility

Argumented Reality (AR)

– MP4/H.264 player
– MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
– Photo/video editor
– Document viewer

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Honor 8A Prime price And Availability

The Honor 8A Prime will sell for 110 EUR and the phone will be shipped in different colors shades like Black, Blue, and Green.

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