Honor South Africa launched the Honor 8X smartphone last night in a glittering event in Sandton, Johannesburg. The smartphone offers tremendous spec- and feature bang for its asking price of just R5500.
For that, you get a big screen smartphone (phablet) with a 6.5″ Borderless fullview 1080p display that has a 91% screen to body ratio. This smartphone feels really good and premium in hand. Interestingly, the screen boasts a Unique Eye Comfort Mode and is the first mobile device to bee Certified by TÜV Rheinland for its reduction of blue light radiation that helps prevent eye fatigue.
The back of the phone also looks very stylish thanks to its colourful texture back lens treatment. Also on the back, you will find the 20MP AI main camera that sports AI multi-scene recognition, helping it to identify 22 different categories of objects in images and 500 scenarios in real-time. This camera is supported by a 2MP depth sensor.
For selfies, the Honor 8X features a 16 MP front camera with an enhanced ISO and that supports “4-in-1 light fusion and multi-frame image processing”, which Huawei says will enable it to create quality and beautified selfies with bokeh effects.
Also offerd by the smarpthone is a big 3750 mAh battery, fast and efficient Kirin 710 chipset, 64 GB storage, and runs Huawei’s EMUI 8.2 on top of Android 8.1 Oreo.
