Honor- the sub-brand of Huawei is all set to add a new smartphone to its line-up. The model of the smartphone is expected to be the Honor 8A. The manufacturer has not yet disclosed any information about the ongoing development and the Honor 8A has reached TENNA in China whose model number is JAT-AL00 and JAT-TL00. The EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) has been seen with the model numbers JAT-L29 and JAT-LX1 which will most probably be Honor 8A and Honor 8A Pro for the Russian and European markets. The listing of TENAA of new Honor model also specifies the images that show its design. The smartphone is inspired by the Honor 8X and Honor 8X Max sporting 1/4th off color on the back panel. Instead of Honor 8A, the smartphone can also be Honor Play 8.
The Honor JAT-AL00 and JAT-TL00 as per the listing of TENAA site might be Android 9.0 Pie-based Honor 8A which will sport a 6.08-inch HD+ (720x 1560 pixels) LCD panel. It also contains octa-core 2.2GHz SoC mated with 3GB RAM. It is also mentioned that it contains a 13MP rear camera with an LED flash and 8MP selfie camera.
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For storage, there is 32GB and 64GB ROM and both can be expanded up to 512GB through microSD card. There is no fingerprint sensor but it is expected to come with Face unlock feature.
The battery of Honor 8A is 2,920mAh and comes in four color options- Black, Red, Gold, and Blue. the smartphone will measure 156.28x73.5x8mm and weighs 150 grams.
The design will be same as the Honor 8X and Honor 8X Max as per the images available on TENAA site. The smartphone also has 3.5mm headphone jack on top and on the right side, there are a volume rocker and a power/lock button.
As spotted by some people at GizChina, Russia’s EEC has listed JAT-L29 and JAT-LX1 with the Honor 8A and Honor 8A Pro but EEC listing does not disclose any image or specification of the new Honor models. And as mentioned above, the smartphone might be Honor Play 8 instead of Honor 8A.