Honor just announced the Honor 9i for the Indian
market as Honor 9N and it's a Flipkart exclusive. As expected, the Honor 9N has
identical hardware to the 9i - the only thing that's changed is an additional
storage option. It's still built around a 5.84-inch LCD of FHD+ (1080 x 2280
pixels) resolution with a narrow notch on the top. A HiSilicon Kirin 659 chip
does the number crunching with a little help of either 3GB or 4GB of RAM.
The first of those versions comes with 32GB of
storage, while the second one is available in 64GB and 126GB flavors. Either
way you get a microSD card slot for further expansion, but it will cost you
your second SIM slot.
On the back, you find the dual camera setup that
consists of 13MP primary sensor accompanied by a 2MP one for depth sensing
along with the fingerprint reader. The front-facing camera placed on the notch
is 16MP setting the phone as a selfie-centric device.
The battery is rated at 3,000 mAh and runs Android
8.0 Oreo out of the box with Huawei's EMUI 8.0 overlay. Honor 9N comes in Lavender
Purple, Robin Egg Blue, Sapphire Blue and Midnight Black and as said before,
it's Flipkart's exclusive. The 3GB/32GB variant will set you back INR 11,999
(US$ 174), the 4GB/64GB model costs INR 13,999 (US$ 203) and the 4GB/128GB alteration
is INR 17,999 (US$ 261). The actual shipments start on July 31.
