With so many smartphones available in the market, it is difficult for a normal user to find out the best one meeting his requirements on all factors and for those who are always on the lookout for a budget smartphone the problem gets worse. Finally, the woes of such customers have been heard by Huawei as it has now officially decided to offer Honor 5X device on Amazon from January 31, 2016, at a considerable price of just $200. Other than Amazon, the smartphone is available on the official Honor store as well.
The Honor 5X, in general, is a low- to midrange commodity phone, and the presence of EMUI along with Lollipop v5.1 will surely act as a turn off for some users who always pine for getting the latest update on their gadget. It has a striking brushed metal back and a strong body-to-screen ratio that makes it easier to use with one hand. Additionally, the presence of fingerprint sensor will encourage people to buy one.
The Honor 5X sports an all metal clad unibody design with a 5.5 inch IPS LCD display, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 616 SoC, an octa-core processor combined with 2GB of RAM. Its onboard storage capacity is 16GB, which nonetheless is definitely less, but the ability to expand it up to 128GB using a MicroSD card makes it never really run out of storage capacity. On the camera fronts, it features a 13 megapixels rear cam with LED flash while on the front it sports a 5-megapixel camera.
Unlike many, Honor is letting people know that it's fingerprint sensor is accurate and pretty fast with a 0.5 second unlock time. The company is offering three color variants for the user to choose from namely: Dark Grey, Daybreak Silver and lastly Sunset Gold. The device will be unlocked by default so using it on just about any GSM network such as AT&T or T-Mobile will not be an issue and since LTE is also available for the device, so users would get good HSPA/HSPA+ speeds.