Huawei’s sub brand Honor range of smartphones are developed and positioned to compete in the budget and midrange smartphone segment. It was intended to target developing markets like India. Huawei Honor range with value for money smartphones, made significant impact in the budget and midrange smartphone segment of China, India and across Europe. For the price of Rs.12,999 in India, it offers lot of features such as metal body, good screen, decent camera and finger print scanner.
Huawei Honor 5X is powered by 64 bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor with 2GB of RAM and Adreno 405 GPU. The device runs on Android 5.1.1 with EMUI 3.1 on top. It has 16GB of internal storage in which around 9.8GB is user available. There is also provision to add microSD card upto 128GB. The performance on the device is decent and has minimal heating issues.
Fingerprint scanner on the Honor 5X is remarkably accurate. With the fingerprint scanner, you can, not only unlock your phone, you can set different apps to open with different fingerprint. It is dual sim smartphone which accepts one nano SIM card and one microSIM card. Both sim slots are 4G enabled. Honor 5X is backed by 3000 mAh battery . The battery with normal performance mode turned on, easily lasted for more than a day.
Honor 5X sports 5.5 inch IPS LCD screen with resolution of 1920×1080 and 401 ppi pixel density. The screen to body ratio is 72.2 percent. The display screen offers wide viewing angles and good colors (plus a color temperature adjustment option in the settings). One demerits about the display is it does not have oleophobic coating, hence it attracts smudges from even casual use.
Honor 5X houses 13 MP primary camera with single-tone LED flash and variable focus, and a 5-megapixel front camera with fixed focus. The primary camera can record 1080p videos and secondary camera is capable of recording 720p. There are plenty of video modes and options available for both the camera such as panorama, all-focus, HDR, slow motion video, watermark, audio note ,beauty, food, time-laps and bunch of manual controls, filters and settings. The primary camera captures photos with excellent colour and detail in good light. Low light shots, colour and details bit off. Overall camera performance is decent. The front facing camera performance too good, considering the price. It also takes relatively sharp shots from the 5MP sensor even in indoor lighting.
Lets us summarize Honor 5X review by segregating the features into merits and demerits. The device will compete with the likes of Letv Le 1S, Lenovo K4 Note, Moto G Turbo etc.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Honor 5X
Pros of Honor 5X
- Good quality display screen.
- Decent design and build quality.
- Accurate fingerprint scanner.
- Decent camera performance.
- Overall good value for money performance.
Cons of Honor 5X
- No Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box.
- UI needs more refining.
- Display is catches smudges easily.
- Larger than usual bezels around the screen.
Honor 5X Specification
- 5.5-inch 1920×1080 IPS LCD screen.
- 64 bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor with 2GB of RAM.
- Dual sim(nano sim+microSIM) with 4G LTE.
- Android 5.1.1 with EMUI 3.1.
- 16GB of internal storage and support for microSD card upto 128GB.
- Fingerprint scanner.
- Non removable 3000 mAh battery.
- 13MP primary camera and 5MP front facing camera.
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