Huawei Honor – Killer Specs at Unbeatable Prices

Huawaei, a giant device maker is now stepping it’s foot in India. With a couple of phones and a tablet already in it’s portfolio, Huawei is now ready to shake the floor with it’s upcoming smartphone Honor. In it’s effort to get the word out, the company organised a blogger’s meet inviting top bloggers from all around India to get their hands on the two new mobiles – Honor and Ideos X5. And yes, I was present as well.

Honor and Ideos X5

Huawei Honor boasts a 1900mAh batterly which (allegedly) lasts up to 35% longer than the competition.

With this new series of phones, Huawei also launched Cloud+ which provides 16GB of free online storage to users for free. Amazing apps like Message+, Phone Finder and App Store make Cloud+ one of the best cloud solutions for any mobile user.

I used both the phones for about half and hour each. For the price, they are the best deal you can get in the market at the moment.

Check out this short video of the form factor and basic usage of Huawei Honor.

Specs of Huawei Honor

Model   U8860
Type   Smartphone
Operating System   Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), Upgradable to 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Input Method   Android input, Touch pal
Band GSM/GPRS/Edge 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
WCDMA 900/2100 MHz
Network Access   HSPA+: Download 14.4Mbps,Upload 5.76Mbps
Processor   1.4GHz
Style   Bar, Full Touch
Dimension   122mm×61.5mm×10.9mm
Weight   About 140g (including battery)
Display Size 10.2cm (4″)
Type TFT LCD, Capacitive Touch, Gorilla Glass
Resolution FWVGA (854×480)
Camera   Main Camera: 8MP, AF, With HDR Effect Front Camera: 0.3MP
FM Radio   Yes
Multi Media Video Format H.263, H.264, MPEG-4
Audio Format MP3, MIDI, AMR-NB, AAC,AAC+, eAAC+, OGG Vorbis
Image Format PNG, GIF (Static only), JPEG, BMP
Streaming Media Video Format MPEG-4/H.264/WMV-9
Audio Format 3GPP(H.263/H.264), MPEG4
Audio Codec WCDMA AMR-NB
GSM/GPRS AAC, MP3, WMA
Audio Jack   3.5mm
Messaging   SMS and MMS, Features based Android 2.3
Email   POP3/IMAP/Exchange, Based on Android
Browser   HTML, Based on Webkit on Android 2.3
Memory RAM 512MB
ROM 4GB (eMMC)
Internal Memory About 2GB User Memory
Expandable Memory Upto 32GB
USB Function Mass Storage
USB Tethering
Charging
Wi-fi   802.11 b/g/n, Support Wi-Fi Router
Bluetooth   V2.1 + EDR
Tools   Calculator/Note pad/Alarm/Gallery/Calendar/Sound Recorder/Document To Go
Google Mobile Suite   Google Mail, Google Search, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Calendar, YouTube, Android Market
Preloaded Apps   Task Manager, Traffic Manager, Security Guard, Huawei Streams
GPS/A-GPS   Yes
Sensor   Proximity & G-Sensor
Battery   Lithium Polymer
Battery Capacity   1900mAh
Standby Time   Upto 380 hours (3G)
Talk Time   Upto 400mins (3G)

And the price?

Huawei Honor is priced at around INR 23k, but can get it at about INR 19k when buying online. Whereas, you can get the Ideos X5 for under INR 14k.

Huawei also introduced two new data cards – E5s and E303. The former will be priced around INR 4.5k and the latter at under INR 1.8k.

Full reviews of the Huawei Honor and Huawei Ideos X5 coming soon. Keep hooked!

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