As expected, Huawei sub-brand Honor has just announced two new mid-range smartphones in China i.e. Honor 8X and Honor 8X Max. Out of these two smartphones, Honor 8X is more powerful in terms of hardware specifications but comes with a smaller screen and battery, while the Honor 8X Max is less powerful but comes with bigger display and battery.

While Honor 8X features a small iPhone X kind of notch, Honor 8X Max features a teardrop notch similar to Oppo F9 Pro. Both the devices come in two variants of RAM i.e. 4GB and 6GB while the storage options 64GB & 128GB. They include a dual camera module at the rear and run on Android 8.1 (Oreo) based operating system with EMUI 8.2 on top. Other hardware specifications vary a bit with each other but are priced aggressively as detailed at the end of the post.

Honor 8X specifications

6.5-inch Full HD+ (2340 × 1080 pixels)19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display
Octa-Core Kirin 710 with ARM Mali-G51 MP4 GPU
4GB RAM + 64GB storage and 6GB RAM + 64GB / 128GB storage, expandable up to 400GB with microSD
Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.2
Hybrid Dual SIM, Fingerprint sensor
20MP rear camera with LED flash, f/1.8 + 2MP secondary camera, 480 fps slow-mo recording
16MP front-snapper, f/2.0
Fingerprint sensor
Dimensions: 160.4×76.6×7.8mm
Weight: 175gm
Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS
3750mAh battery with fast charging

Honor 8X Max specifications

7.12-inch Full HD+(2244×1080 pixels) 18.7:9 2.5D curved glass display
Octa-Core Snapdragon 660 Mobile Platform with Adreno 512 GPU / 1.8GHz Octa-Core Snapdragon 636 Mobile Platform with Adreno 509 GPU
4GB RAM + 64GB / 128GB storage and 6GB RAM + 64GB storage, expandable up to 256GB with microSD
Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.2
Hybrid Dual SIM, Fingerprint sensor
16MP rear camera with LED flash, f/2.0 + 2MP secondary camera, f/2.4
8MP front-snapper, f/2.0
Dimensions: 177.57×86.24×8.13mm
Weight: 210gm
Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz / 5GHz), Bluetooth 5, GPS + GLONASS
5000mAh battery with fast charging

Pricing and Availability Details

All the variants of both smartphones will go on sale in China on September 11, except the 6GB RAM variant of Honor 8X Max which will go on sale in October.