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Honor has sent invites for a launch event on July 24. The Company is expected to reveal its new news budget smartphone, which is already launched in China as Honor 9i 2018. Its Indian counterpart will be called Honor 9x when it arrives.
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The phone comes in four colours and the blue variant with the notch looks very similar to the mid-budget Honor 10 that comes with premium metal and glass design and a Kirin 970 chip.
Honor 9i 2018 released in China comes with a 5.84-inch IPS LCD display with 1080 x 2280 pixel resolution and Kirin 659 SoC doing the duty underneath, paired to 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage expandable via microSD card up to 128GB.
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Honor 9i 2018 or the Honor 9X has dual cameras at the back with a 13-megapixel primary sensor and a 2-megapixel secondary sensor for depth sensing, an implementation similar to the older Honor 9 series smartphones. There’s PDAF, HDR and LED flash on board. At the front, there is a 16-megapixel selfie camera which could be an upgrade in the sensor, compared to 13 megapixel + 2-megapixel dual camera implementation on the on the Honor 9i as the pixel size in even bigger than what you find on iPhones at 2.0um.
The phone runs Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box with Huawei’s own EMUI 8.0 skin on top. There’s 3000mAh battery powering the phone and dual SIM slots that support 4G SIM cards.
9X is a new addition to budget phone and will give competition to Redmi pro 5 in the budget phone category with its competitive price tag of Rs.15,000.
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