Huawei has finally lifted the curtains on its latest smartphone for its Honor line, the 6X. The mid-range smartphone boasts a dual camera setup at the back, along with an affordable price.
Android Authority reported that the Honor 6X comes with a dual camera system that sports a 12 MP main camera with 6P lens, and a second 2 MP sensor. However, the purpose of the second lens is unclear at the moment. The front houses an 8 MP sensor for selfies shots. Features like Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, and panorama comes standard.
The new smartphone offers a 5.5-inch 1080p IPS display with a 2.5D curved glass. It also offers 76.1 percent screen-to-body ratio and a 401 ppi pixel density. It is powered by an octa-core Kirin 655 SoC 16 nm CPU (4 x 2.1GHz + 4 x 1.7GHz Cortex-A53) and a Mali T830-MP2 GPU. It is then paired with a 3 GB RAM that comes with a 32 GB storage, while the 4 GB RAM variant comes with 64 GB storage. A microSD card slot will also be included to provide an extra storage space up to 128 GB.
It also provides a hybrid 4G Dual-SIM (nano or nano/microSD combo) that has VoLTE support, WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.1. It runs on Huawei's Emotion UI 4.1 on top of Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box. It also contains a fingerprint scanner at the back that can unlock the phone in 0.3 seconds and a fast-charging 3,340 mAh battery, Fone Arena added.
The newly announced phone comes with the dimensions 150.9 x 72.6 x 8.2mm and weighs 162 grams. There will five colors to choose from for its metal unibody namely, gold, silver, gray, blue, and rose gold. It still remains unknown if the front will be protected by Gorilla Glass.
The Huawei Honor 6X will become accessible on the Chinese market on Oct. 25, while pre-orders already started. The 3 GB RAM/32 GB ROM is priced at 999 Yuan (roughly $148), the 4GB RAM/32GB ROM variant for 1,299 Yuan (around $192), and the high-tier model, with 4 GB RAM/ 64 GB ROM, is available for 1,599 Yuan (approximately $237).
