Honor 8 smartphone will serve as the flagship smartphone. The Honor 8 sits just below the Leica-branded Huawei P9. The phone is the successor to Huawei’s Honor 7 that was launched in October last year.
The Honor 8 will be exclusively available at Flipkart and Amazon along with the Honor store.
Note that only the 4 GB model of Honor 8 that has 32GB of internal storage has been launched in India and it has been listed on Amazon.in.
The Honor 8 comes with a 5.2-inch full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 2.5D curved glass display, 2.3GHz octa-core Kirin 950 (ARM Cortex-A72 4 x 2.3GHz + ARM Cortex-A53 4 x 1.8GHz) processor and Mali T880-MP4 GPU. Besides, the smartphone has optional storage for up to a 128GB micro SD card. The smartphone runs onAndroid 6.0 Marshmallow operating system and offers a customised interface – EMUI 4.1. A 3000 mAh battery is in the phone that claims to deliver talk-time of up to 17.5 hours and standby time of up to 380 hours on 3G networks.
Honor 8 is its dual rear camera set up – both the cameras are of 12 megapixel resolution (monochrome + color). A dual-tone LED flash light is in the back too. The primary rear camera has f/2.2 aperture and Laser AF. In its front lies an 8-megapixel shooter with f/2.4 aperture has been provided for selfies. The camera has features like Screen-lock snapshot, Virtual aperture shooting, Night shot, Professional Mode, Beauty mode, Food mode, Panorama, HDR, Watermark, Light painting, Time-lapse, Slow-motion, Audio note, Document scan, Capture smiles, Touch to capture, Sound Snap, and Delayed Shot. Further, the main camera & secondary camera support 1080P（1920*1080, 30 fps）FHD video recording.
It also comes with a fingerprint scanner which is located on its back panel. It has USB Type-C port and an Infrared sensor as well. Besides, the smartphone has a Hybrid Dual SIM tray, 4G LTE, WiFi (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Hotspot up to 8 devices), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, Accelerometer, Abient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Infrared Sensor, Compass, Gyroscope, and NFC . The handset measures 145.5 x 71 x 7.45 mm and weighs 153 grams.
Huawei Honor 8 Specifications
- 5.2-inch Full HD (~423 ppi pixel density) display
- Dimensions: 145.5 x 71 x 7.5 mm, weighs 153 grams
- HiSilicon Kirin 950 Octa-core processor (4×2.3 GHz Cortex-A72 & 4×1.8 GHz Cortex A53)
- 4GB of RAM, 64GB internal memory
- SD card support up to 128GB
- Single SIM, 4G LTE, Bluetooth v4.2, NFC
- Emotion UI 4.1, Android Marshmallow
- Mali-T880 MP4 GPU
- Dual 12 MP rear cameras , f/2.2, laser autofocus, dual tone flash, 1.25 µm pixel size
- 8 MP front camera, f/2.4, 1.4 µm pixel size
- Fingerprint scanner, USB Type-C port
- Non-removable 3000 mAh battery.
Huawei Honor 8 will be available in four color variants: Pearl White, Midnight Black, Sapphire Blue, and Gold at a price of Rs 29,999.
