Honor 9 Lite, a device launched under Huawei’s sub-brand Honor, has started receiving “Face Unlock” feature via HOTA (Huawei’s Over the Air update), the company said on Wednesday.
The HOTA rollout has started in batches and will be rolled out to everyone by March 5.
“‘Honor 9 Lite’ will be the most affordable smartphone in the Indian market to support ‘Face Unlock’ feature and will further emerge as the best value for money smartphone with superior hardware and software configurations,” P Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Huawei Consumer Business Group, said in a statement.
The 5.65-inch Honor 9 Lite has dual cameras on both the front and rear and runs Android 8.0 Oreo with EMUI 8.0. The quad-camera smartphone is available for Rs 10,999 (32 GB variant) and Rs 14,999 (64 GB variant).
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.
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.
(Written with inputs from IANS)