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Honor 8C India Launch Said to Be Next Week, Variants Tipped

  1. Honor 8C India Launch Said to Be Next Week, Variants Tipped

Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is set for its next launch of the Honor 8C smartphone in India in the coming week. This smartphone will have 4,000mAh battery and 6.26-inch Notch FullView Display, industry sources told IANS on Tuesday.

Honor 8C is expected to come in two variants – 4GB RAM/ 64GB storage and 6GB RAM/ 64GB storage. The Honor 8C was launched in China last month.

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Honor 8C Price

The Honor 8C price in China starts at CNY 1,099 (roughly Rs. 11,800) for the 4GB RAM/ 32GB storage variant, moving up to CNY 1,399 (about Rs. 15,000) for the 4GB RAM/ 64GB storage model. Seeing the variants offered in China, we can expect the price in India to be above the Rs. 15,000 mark.

The dual-SIM (Nano) Honor 8C runs EMUI 8.2 based on Android 8.1 Oreo, and sports a 6.26-inch HD+ (720×1520 pixels) TFT LCD IPS display with a 19:9 aspect ratio, 269ppi pixel density, and 86.6 percent screen-to-body ratio. Honor 8C handset is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 626 SoC . It is paired with an Adreno 506 GPU, 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and 32GB of inbuilt storage. Storage of this smartphone is expandable via a dedicated microSD card slot (up to 256GB).

In we talk about cameras, the Honor 8C bears a vertically placed dual rear camera setup with a 13-megapixel primary sensor (f/1.8 aperture and a 2-megapixel secondary black-and-white sensor (f/2.4 aperture), both with support for autofocus. Furthermore, the front camera of the handset sports an 8-megapixel selfie camera with fixed focus and f/2.0 aperture. Both camera setups get LED flash. There is a non-removable 4,000mAh battery under the hood with support for 5V/2A (10W) charging.

Honor 8C Connectivity

As for connectivity, the Honor 8C comes with 4G VoLTE, single-band Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.2 LE with aptX, GPS/ A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, a Micro-USB port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Sensors onboard the smartphone include accelerometer, ambient light sensor, electronic compass, fingerprint sensor, and proximity sensor. The phone’s dimensions are 158.72×75.94×7.98mm and weight is 167.2 grams.

The back of the Honor 8C Aurora Blue colour variant features a 3D nano-level texture design . Furthermore, it offers a gradient design much like the Honor 10. Additionally, the phone also comes with certain AI-based features in the rear and front camera setups.

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Earlier during the month, Huawei launched Honor 10 Lite at Rs. 21,990. However, the company has claimed to have sold over 1 million units of Honor products during the Diwali festive period . However,  the price with Honor 9N ₹ 9,999 and Honor 8X ₹ 14,999 being the most popular products on Flipkart’s Big Billion Days and Amazon India respectively on the first selling day.

The brand sold over 6 million units of the recently launched Honor 8X globally. It became the top Singles Day performer in terms of sales volume and revenue under the smartphone category.

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