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Huawei launches Honor 5 and Honor Note 8 – price, specs and features  

Huawei has launched the Honor 5 and Honor Note 8 in China. The Chinese smartphone maker has priced the former at CNY 599 (around INR 6,000), while the Honor Note 8 price starts at CNY 2,299 (about INR 23,000).

Let’s start with the specs of the more expensive and feature rich of the two, the Honor Note 8.

The Honor 8 is a large screened phone with a 6.6-inch Quad HD (1440×2560 pixels) display with 2.5D curved glass protection. The Honor Note 8 is powered by a Kirin 955 octa-core processor, along with a Mali T880-MP4 GPU, and gets 4GB RAM.

Inbuilt storage is available in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB. The 32GB variant is priced at CNY 2,299 (about INR 23,100), 64GB for CNY 2,499 (about INR 25,000) while the 128GB variant is priced at CNY 2,799 (about INR. 28,000). The storage can be expanded via microSD card (up to 128GB). The phone gets a hybrid dual- nano SIM slot, a fingerprint scanner, and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow-based Emotion UI 4.1 OS.

Rear camera is a 13-megapixel unit with dual-tone LED flash, Optical Image Stabilization and f/2.0 aperture. The front camera is an 8 megapixel unit. Battery size is a solid 4500mAh. The phone weighs a rather heavy 219 grams.

Charging is through a type-C cable and the phone gets features such as 4G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS and NFC. The Honor Note 8 is available in Gold, Silver, and Grey colour options.

Honor 5

huawei Honor 5

The lower specced Honor 5 is powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MT6735P quad-core processor along with Mali-T720 GPU and 2GB of RAM. The internal storage on the phone is 16GB, expandable to 128GB via a micro SD card. The phone supports dual-SIM cards, and runs on Android Lollipop-based Emotion UI 3.1 Lite. The phone has a 5-inch 720×1280 pixels IPS display.

Rear camera on the Honor 5 is an 8-megapixel shooter with dual-LED, and a 2-megapixel front cam with LED flash. Battery is 2200mAh. The phone weighs 138gm and gets features such as 4G, VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, and GPS. The Honor 5 is available in Black, White, and Gold colour options.

While the Honor 5 will start selling in China from 2nd August, the Honor Note 8 will go on sale on August 9. Huawei has started taking pre-orders for the phone in China.

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