Year 2018 witnesses a completely different version of Honor, as the firm looks unstoppable this year. Smartphones like Honor Play, Honor 7S, Honor 9N, and now Honor 8X and 8X Max made its way to the smartphone industry. And this is not the end, Honor Magic 2, Honor Note 10, Honor 9X, Honor V12, Honor 10 Lite and many more smartphones are scheduled for this year.
Honor is a sub-brand of tech giant Huawei, which is especially pushed to give some quality smartphones at focused value go freak out. The Shenzhen-based association developed in the year 2013, since then the first experience with the world organizations like Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo got huge competition, and the year 2017 and 2018 has ended up being the most beneficial years for Huawei and Honor. Their business outline is, tenaciously, getting a “J” curve, where Huawei has beaten Apple in the overall market, and Honor saw a 300% rise in the smartphone shipments in Asia-Pacific region. Honor, surely, has essentially more to serve to this colossal smartphone exhibit.
Honor has propelled two new smartphones in China – the Honor 8X and the Honor 8X Max. Both the smartphones accompany a huge screen. The Honor 8X features a 6.5-inch screen while the Honor 8X Max accompanies a considerably greater screen size of 7.12-inch screen.
Specifications
There are a couple of intriguing spec contrasts between the two: the Honor 8X accompanies Huawei’s Kirin 710 processor, while the 8X Max utilizes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 636. The smaller Honor 8X additionally has higher-resolution cameras and a higher-resolution screen — which doesn’t appear to be extraordinary for the 8X Max, since it has somewhat a letdown in the resolution of display at a considerable bigger size. The smaller 8X can likewise be moved up to incorporate 6GB of RAM, though the 8X Max is stuck at 4GB for now, as the 6GB RAM variant will be debuting in October this year. In the 8X Max’s support, it has a substantially bigger 5,000mAh battery compared to Honor 8X’s 3,750mAh battery.
Honor 8X highlights a 6.5-inch TFT Full HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 18.7:9. Under the hood, the smartphone keeps running in-house Kirin 710 octa-core processor combined with 4GB/6GB of RAM variants, and 64GB/128GB inbuilt storage, which can be expanded via memory card up to 400GB. On the software front, it runs Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI 8.2 layered to finish everything. In any case, HiSilicon Kirin 710 is combined with Mali-G51 MP4 GPU, that fits for dealing with any kind of graphic related work.
The dual-SIM (Nano) Honor 8X Max runs on Android 8.1 Oreo based on EMUI 8.2.0. Honor 8X Max has 7.12-inch Full HD+ (1080 x 2244 pixels) TFT IPS display. Its aspect ratio is 19.5: 9. For speed and multi-tasking, Honor 8X Max has a 4GB RAM with Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor and the 6GB RAM variant will come powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC.
Optics
Camera wise, Honor 8X got a dual optics at the back involving 20-megapixel + 2-megapixel. On the front is a 16-megapixel selfie camera with f/2.0 opening perfect for your selfies. The connectivity options on the Honor 8X incorporate 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2, and GPS/A-GPS.
In the camera-department, Honor 8X Max features a dual-camera setup comprising of a 16-megapixel + 2-megapixel combination at the rear, and an 8-megapixel camera sensor with f/2.0 aperture sits at the front. The device looks premium and it runs on Android 8.1 Oreo-based EMUI 8.2.0.
Honor 8X and 8X Max launch price
Honor 8X is evaluated at CNY 1,399 (about Rs 14,700) in China. At this esteem, you will get 4GB RAM/64GB capacity variants. The cost of 6GB RAM/64GB storage variant is CNY 1,599 (approx Rs 16,800). The cost of 6GB RAM/128GB capacity version is CNY 1,899 (around Rs 20,000). On the other hand, the 64GB variant of Honor 8X Max is CNY 1,499 (approx Rs 15,700). The cost of 128GB variant is CNY 1,799 (around Rs 19,000).
