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.
Honor 8X
- 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM — 1399 Yuan
- 6GB RAM + 64GB ROM — 1599 Yuan
- 6GB RAM + 128GB ROM — 1899 Yuan
Honor 8X Max
- 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM — 1499 Yuan
- 4GB RAM + 128GB ROM — 1799 Yuan
