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Aiming to disrupt the selfie-focused market in India, Chinese major Huawei on Wednesday launched Honor 9 Lite smartphone with quad-camera setup and a glass body.
The Honor 9 Lite has a 5.65-inch IPS display with 18:9 aspect ratio and runs Android 8.0 Oreo based latest Emotion UI (EMUI) 8.0. It sports a quad-camera setup which is a rear and front 13MP + 2MP dual-lens camera setup with Phase-Detection AutoFocus (PDAF) and advanced wide aperture mode.
The device has a double-sided 2.5D glass unibody constructed with layered nano-etched design on its back. The Honor 9 Lite is equipped with the Kirin 659 Octa-core processor, fabricated in a cutting-edge 16-nanometer process. It also houses a microSD card of up to 256 GB can be used to increase data storage.
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The Honor 9 Lite has 3,000mAh battery which claims to deliver 86 hours offline music listening or 13 hours offline video watching. It has a rear fingerprint scanner on the rear which unlocks the device in 0.25 seconds.
“Honor 9 Lite will prove to be an all-around package. We are delighted to bring this phone to the consumers with our latest EMUI 8.0 designed in the India R&D centre,” said P. Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Consumer Business Group, Honor India.
Honor 9 Lite full specifications
- 4G VoLTE dual-SIM, Android 8.0 Oreo-based EMUI 8.0, Fingerprint sensor
- 5.65-inch full-HD+ (1080 x 2160 pixels) 18:9 2.5D curved glass display
- Octa-core Huawei’s own Hi-Silicon Kirin 659 processor processor
- 3GB/ 4GB RAM with 32GB/ 64GB storage, expandable up to 256GB with microSD
- 13MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, LED flash, secondary 2MP camera, PDAF
- 13MP + 2MP front-facing camera
- 3000mAh battery
The Honor 9 Lite 3GB+32GB is priced at Rs. 10,999, whereas the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage version will cost Rs. 14,999. It comes in Blue, Grey and Black colour options. It will be available exclusively from Flipkart and Honor Store starting from January 21.
As a part of the launch offer, Honor is also offering 10 percent instant cashback on Citi Bank Debit and Credit Cards.
(Written with inputs from IANS)
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