Huawei launched the Honor 5X, the successor of last year’s Honor 4X smartphone in India earlier today at Rs. 12,999. Here we have a quick walk through of the hardware in terms of photo gallery.
The Honor 5X packs a 5.5-inch 1080p fully laminated display with a screen-to-body ratio of 72.5%. It is powered by an Octa-Core Snapdragon 616 processor and has 2GB of RAM. It runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with EMUI 3.1.
it has a 5-megapixel camera on the front with Samsung or OmniVision sensor with f/2.4 aperture, 22mm wide-angle lens, 1.4 micron pixel size and 88-degree viewing angle. The earpiece is present in the middle and there are the usual set of proximity and ambient light sensors next to the camera. It also has a tiny notification LED on the right side of the earpiece that is hardly visible when it is off.
It doesn’t have capacitive touch buttons, instead you have to use on-screen buttons. Even though it doesn’t have hardware touch buttons, it has an extra bezel below the display.
The volume rockers and the power button are present on the right side of the smartphone. It measures 151.3×76.3×8.15mm.
The dual SIM and micro SD card slots are present on the left side that can be removed using the bundled ejector tool.
Huawei has offered dedicated SIM and microSD trays instead of hybrid SIM arrangement in most smartphones these days. The SIM tray has a micro and a nano SIM slot and the microSD slot takes up to 128GB cards. It has 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS support. The phone has 16GB of internal storage.
The smartphone has single loudspeaker on the right side of the micro USB slot on the bottom, while the left grill houses the primary microphone. It has Smart PA audio chip for an enhanced audio experience.
The 3.5mm audio jack and the secondary microphone are present on the top.
On the back there is a 13-megapixel camera with LED flash, uses Sony or Samsung sensor with f/2.0 aperture, 28mm wide-angle lens and it supports 1080p video recording. The fingerprint sensor is present below the camera that can unlock the phone in under 0.5 seconds. You can also use it to launch an app even in lock-screen mode, take photos or selfie, bring down the notification shade by swiping the sensor and also press and hold the sensor to answer incoming calls or cancel alarms.
The smartphone has a unibody aluminium alloy body and feels solid when holding it. It weighs 158 grams. It packs a 3000mAh built-in battery with SmartPower 3.0 technology that is said to reduce power consumption by 30%. It promises 1.46 days of battery life with average use and over a day of battery life with heavy use.
The Huawei Honor 5X comes in Grey, Silver and Gold colors, is available for pre-order on Flipkart and Amazon.in and goes on sale from February 1st.
Images by Siraj