It's called Honor V9, the
new flagship offering from Huawei's online-only sub-brand. The Honor V9 was unveiled at an event in China
today. It comes with a 5.7-inch QHD LTPS LCD touchscreen, and
dual 12 MP + 12 MP f/2.2 cameras on the back (one sensor is monochrome like in
all of Huawei's dual arrangements) with laser autofocus, LED flash, and 4K
video capture. For selfies there's an 8 MP f/2.0 camera on the front, and the
handset is powered by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon's latest and greatest
chipset, the Kirin 960.
It's aided by a whopping 6GB of RAM, while internal
storage is either 64 or 128GB depending on which version you buy. A microSD
card slot is naturally in for expansion, but it is of the hybrid variety - so
you either use two SIM cards with the V9, or one SIM card and a microSD. The
phone has a beefy 4,000 mAh battery and it runs Android 7.0 Nougat underneath
Huawei's EMUI 5.0.
Its dimensions are 157 x 77.5 x 6.97 mm, and it
weighs 184g. In China it's priced at CNY 2,999 (US$ 435 or € 413) with 64GB of storage.
That's the model that will be released first, in blue and gold.The
Honor V9 will be called Honor 8 Pro in markets other than China. There's a
chance that it will get an international unveiling at Mobile World Congress in
Barcelona on February 26.
