After a month of launching the Huawei Honor 8X and 8X Max in China, the company has made the Honor 8X available in Spain, France, and Italy. The management promises to release the smartphone in other countries soon.
Huawei Honor 8X is being favorably reviewed all around the dotcom world. Notable is the style and substance of the device. These are upgraded in the Honor 8X Max which will be launched on October 16 2018. Some analysts think that in its class, the Honor 8X is still the best.
Read on to see the full specifications on price of Honor 8X, design, display, hardware, software, camera performance, battery life and more. Take note that this mobile phone was released in the month of September 2018.
Design and Display of Honor 8X
This device features a 6.5-inch FullView display with notch and a 84.4 percent screen to body ratio, a 2.5D double texture aurora glass body. The device has the following dimensions 160.4 x 76.6 x 7.8. It weighs 175 grams, which is moderate or average.
The display type is IPS LCD capacitive touch screen of 16M colors. It has 1080 x 2340 pixels in resolution; 19.5:9 aspect ratio, and 396 ppi density. It is multi-touch compliant up to 10 fingers. The body material is basically glass and metal, and it comes in black, blue, pink, and red colors.
Camera Features
Features of the cameras are exquisitely nice for Honor 8X. The device is equipped with dual 20 MP plus 2 MP cameras to the rear of the device. It comes with f/1.8 – f/2.4 apertures, LED flash capabilities, auto focus, etc. The user can do video calling and video sharing operations on this device.
The selfie camera is also a capable 16 MP f/2.0 aperture, having HDR feature and the video capacity is 1080p@30fps. The camera department is a winning feature of this mid-range smartphone. There’s also provision for fingerprint sensor, face unlock.
Huawei Honor 8X Hardware, Software and Storage
It is an Android smartphone, so it is driven by Android 8.1 Oreo which is believed will soon receive upgrade to the latest software. Besides that, there is the Hisilicon Kirin 710 chipset, which act in place of Qualcomm Snapdragon. There is also CPU Octa-core 4×2.2 GHz Cortex A73 and 4×1.7 GHz Cortex A53, and GPU Mali-G51 MP4.
All these are designed to enable full speed and optimal processing operations on the Honor 8X device. The internal memory (RAM) is 4GB, while the internal storage is 128GB. Increase that with microSD card to about 400GB.
Network and Connectivity
Network capacity in the Honor 8X is GSM, CDMA, HSPA, and LTE. Therefore, we believe that this device is able to handle 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. This is good for those who have to make use of their device from several locations. They can often change from one network to the other as required.
There’s also provision for Wi-Fi Direct, Mobile hotspot, Blutooth 4.2, GPS, GLONNASS, microUSB, and BDS. Other good connectivity options are NFC, VoIP, tethering, computer sync, and OTA sync.
Battery Life
Featured for battery power is the non-removable Li-Po 3750 mAh battery, which is just average. Other information about the battery is the fast charging capacity, standby time of 662 hours for 2G, and 639 hours for 3G, and 675 hours for 4G.
Price and Availability
The price of Huawei Honor 8X is around Rs 18,999 or in Europe it is about 250 EUR. The device is now available in Asia and in Europe.
