Huawei’s online brand Honor has announced the availability of grey variant of its recently launched Honor 9 Lite smartphone. The Glacier Grey variant will now be up for grabs through upcoming fifth flash sale on Flipkart scheduled for February 6.
The Honor 9 lite comes in Midnight Black and Sapphire Blue colour options as well. Honor claims that in all the previous four flash sales, Honor 9 Lite sold out within few minutes.
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.
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.
“The success of Honor 9 Lite has been a source of enthusiasm and motivation for the Honor team. We now aspire to surpass the consumer expectations, be it technological innovation or device make-up, we aim to please both our new and old consumers. Honor registered a 3X growth in Q4 of 2017 as compared to Q4 of 2016 owing to our best seller devices and we are confident to continue to momentum with best in class products like Honor 9 Lite. With this grey variant in the market, we hope to not only expand the Honor 9 Lite portfolio but also continue the winning streak. Ever since the first sale, we have witnessed unparalleled consumer response, which has propelled Honor 9 Lite’s stature as one of the best-selling smartphones from Honor’s portfolio this year” said Mr. P Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Huawei Consumer Business Group
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
To remind you, the Honor 9 Lite 3GB+32GB is priced at Rs. 10,999, whereas the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage version costs Rs. 14,999. It also comes in Midnight Black and Sapphire Blue colour options.