Huawei seems willing to stretch a flagship name
quite a bit to promote its less premium devices. A Huawei P9 lite mini has
appeared in Hungary, apparently a slightly smaller version of the P9 lite.
The phone has a 5” 720p screen (down from 5.2”
1080p) and runs Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1 on top. The chipset is -
MediaTek MT6737T - has a measly quad-core CPU, but at least the 3,020 mAh
battery promises to last two days on a single charge. The microUSB port on the
bottom is not terribly exciting to see.
The P9 lite mini will measure 8.05 mm thick, which
again is a minor downgrade compared to the 7.5 mm thick non-mini model. The
phone borrows the round fingerprint reader of the P9 lite (2017), but the LED
flash flips to the other side of the camera so it’s not the same model. To be
fair, we couldn’t expect much from a phone that’s both “lite” and “mini”.
At least not much seems to have changed in the
camera department. The main cam still has 13MP resolution, though the front
camera dropped to 5MP and gained a dedicated LED flash along the way.
The watch appears to be on sale now for € 190. It
premieres as a dual SIM phone, but a single SIM version will be available in
autumn. Launch colors are black, silver and gold.
