After showcasing the Honor 8 at a special event last month, Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has officially launched the smartphone in India. The smartphone is priced at Rs 29,999 and will be available via Amazon India, Flipkart, and the Honor Online store from Wednesday itself, starting at 3pm IST. The smartphone will be made available in Sunrise Gold, Pearl White, and Sapphire Blue colour options.
Successor to last year’s Honor 7, the next-gen Honor 8 brings new hardware, along with design improvements such as metal frame and a 2.5D front and back glass design that adds a premium look and feel to it. With the dual camera trend catching up, Honor doesn’t want to be left behind. Similar to the company’s flagship Huawei P9, the Honor 8 too features a dual camera setup – with an RGB sensor and a monochrome sensor.
The Honor 8 will come with 24 months extended warranty, 3-month screen damage replacement warranty, 3-month replacement service for any manufacturing defects, and 'postal repair' - for a pan-Indi pick and drop service.
Honor 8 specifications and features
The smartphone features a 5.2-inch full HD (1080p) display covered with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass protection. Under the hood is Huawei’s Kirin 950 octa-core processor built on 16nm architecture, paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB onboard storage. Honor has also included a microSD card slot with support for up to 256GB.
Besides the dual camera setup, there are two 12-megapixel camera sensors at the back with aperture of f/2.2 and pixel size of 1.76-micron. While the RGB sensor allows capturing rich colors, the monochrome sensor captures more light with increased sharpness. Working in tandem, both cameras help to capture crisper and detailed photos, Huawei says. The camera also features dual LED flash, hybrid auto-focus, and laser autofocus for short range and depth focus for long range. There is also professional mode which gives you full manual control to control the shutter speed, exposure compensation and more. There is also a wide aperture mode that enables you to blur background to add DSLR-like blur effects. the Honor 8 also comes with an 8-megapixel front-facing camera of aperture f/2.4 for selfies and video calling.
Connectivity options in the smartphone include 4G LTE with VoLTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, NFC and Bluetooth. The smartphone also comes with the new USB Type-C port for charging and data transfer. To keep things ticking, Honor has include a 3,000mAh battery with fast charging technology (9V/2A), which can charge the smartphone from 0-47 percent in 30 minutes. The smartphone also includes a fingerprint scanner at the back for biometric authentication. There is also a built-in IR sensor on the top that lets you control your home entertainment system such as TV, music player, projector, set-top-box, and consumer electronics products such as air conditioner. On the software front, it runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow 6.0 wrapped under Huawei’s EMUI 4.1.
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