Honor unveiled another ultra-affordable phone called
Play 8 today, but it is not completely new, it is a
rebadged Honor 8S for the Chinese market. Powered by the Helio A22 chipset, it
has one camera on the back and a basic tall panel, but comes with a very
aggressive CNY 599 (US$ 120) price tag.
The display is a 5.71” LCD with somewhat thick
bezels and a waterdrop notch on the top. The resolution is HD+ and the exact
ratio is 19:9. The camera on the back has a 13 MP sensor and an f/1.8 lens and
brings some neat features like HDR. The front-facing snapper does 5 MP stills
and has an f/2.2 lens. Honor uses the latter with the Android face-unlocking
tech to compensate for the lack of a fingerprint scanner.
The Honor Play 8 has 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage,
which you can expand by up to 512 GB via a microSD card. The phone actually has
a triple slot so that won't cost you the dual SIM functionality (complete with
Dual 4G).
The phone runs EMUI 9.0 based on Android Pie and
packs in a 3,020 mAh battery. Sadly you get the dated microUSB port and no fast
charging support, but that's about what you can expect at this price point.
Honor announced the Play 8 in a collaboration with
D.Phone, a Chinese smartphone retailer, but you can also purchase it at Vmall,
TMall, JD and Suning, among others.
