On October 11th, Honor released its new smartphone,
Huawei Honor Play 8C. At the press conference, the company officially announced
the Honor 8X new colour version – Dream Purple will be officially released at
10:08 am on October 16. Today, the smartphone appeared on Jingdong Mall for
pre-sale. The 4GB+64GB version is priced at 1399 yuan (US$ 202), the 6GB+64GB
version is priced at 1599 yuan (US$ 231) while the 6GB+128GB version is priced at
1899 yuan (US$ 274).
The Honor 8X adopts a flagship design with ultrathin
bezels and the chin is only 4.25mm thick which gives this smartphone a 91%
screen-to-body ratio. With this, the visual effect is outstanding after
lighting the screen. It uses a 6.5-inch display with an aspect ratio of 19.5:9.
This smartphone is powered by Huawei’s Kirin 710 processor and it runs on
Android 8.1 while its lights are kept on by a 3750 mAh battery. In the camera
department, we have a 20MP + 2MP AI dual rear camera setup while a 16MP sensor
is available for selfies.
In addition, the Honor 8X is equipped with GPU Turbo
technology. This is a soft and hard graphics acceleration technology that
improves the performance of mobile GPUs and increases graphics processing
efficiency by 60%. It opens up the EMUI operating system and the processing
bottleneck between the GPU and the CPU. More importantly, GPU Turbo technology
can reduce the power consumption of the GPU thus reducing the general power
consumption of the mobile phone by 30%.
