Huawei Honor 6X

Design and Display

It still has the same unibody metal design as the Honor 5X as well with a fingerprint sensor at the back.

The screen employs a 5.5 inch 1080p (1920 x 1080) IPS display unit.

This is also similar to last year’s Honor 5X.

Internals and Storage

Huawei Honor 6X comes with an Octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor clocked at 2.1 GHz.

There are two variants for storage and RAM with a 3 GB/32GB flavor and a 4 GB/ 64 GB variant. It also allows 256 GB of expandable storage via microSD card slot (uses 2nd SIM slot).

The phone is dual-SIM by default.
Unfortunately Honor 6X features last year’s Android 6.0 Marshmallow with EMUI 4.1 compared with EMUI 5.0 of the newer Mate 9. Huawei says an upgrade to EMUI 5.0 is coming soon which will improve the user experience on the Huawei Honor 6X.

Camera and Battery

Huawei’s dual-camera game has been refined over last year and the company seems confident enough to use it in lower end phones as well.

The Honor 6X features a 12MP sensor coupled with a 2MP sensor to enhance low light performance by capturing images in black and white for added depth and sharpness. It also features what Huawei calls Deep Trench Isolation (DTI) which reduces noise in photos by isolating pixels to decrease blur.

The battery has been bumped up to 3,340 mAh up from 3,000 mAh in the Honor 5X. It does not feature any sort of fast charging technology though. Huawei claims that it can last more than a day on heavy usage.

Availability

Overall this phone features upgrades over last year’s design but falls short in some aspects. The phone will be available from Huawei’s website on January 10th. but it is safe to assume that this phone won’t be here until the end of a month at least.

Huawei Honor 6X Specifications

CPU: Quad-core 2.1 GHz Cortex-A53 + Quad-core 1.7 GHz Cortex-A53
Chipset: HiSilicon Kirin 655
GPU: Mali-T830MP2
OS : Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Emotion UI 4.1
Fingerprint scanner
Supported Networks: 2G, 3G, 4G LTE Dual-SIM
Design:
Display: 5.5” with 1080p resolution (401 ppi)
Dimensions: 151.3 x 76.3 x 8.2 mm
Memory:
RAM: 3/4 GB
Internal: 32/64 GB
Card slot: Yes, supports 256 GB of expandable storage
Camera:
Primary: Dual camera setup (12 MP + 2 MP), Phase Detection Autofocus, LED flash
Secondary: 8 MP
Connectivity: NFC, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, Bluetooth 4.1
Battery: 3,340 mAh
Expected Price: ($250)