Honor 7X to launch in India in December: Here's what you need to know

Huawei, the Chinese tech giant, is gearing up to launch another mid-range smartphone in India, the Honor 7X.  George Zhao, Honor's Global President announced that the company will be launching the Honor 7X in India in the month of December. He also stated that the upcoming smartphone will be an offline exclusive in India.

In an interview with IANS, Zhai boldly said, “We will launch Honor 7X in December at such a price that it will have no competitor in that segment,”

“We have the capability to out-compete other dominating players in the Indian smartphone market in terms of quality, but our marketing efforts need to improve,” he further added.

As for the specifications, the Honor 7X features a 5.9-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 18:9. The smartphone is powered by the company's own Kirin 659 processor coupled with Mali-T830 MP2 GPU. The device packs in 4GB of RAM with 32GB, 64GB or 128GB as storage options. The storage on the device is expandable up to 256GB using a microSD card. Under the hood, there is a 3,340mAh battery powering up the device. The Honor 7X runs on Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1 skin layered on top of it out of the box.

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On the optics front, the Honor 7X sports a dual camera setup at the back consisting of a 16-megapixel primary sensor and a 2-megapixel secondary sensor. Up front, there is an 8-megapixel selfie shooter.

As for the connectivity, the Honor 7X supports 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 LTE, GPS and GLONASS.

The Honor 7X is currently available in China at a price of CNY 1,299(roughly Rs.13,000) for the 32GB variant.The 64GB variant retails for CNY 1,699 (roughly Rs. 16,800) while the 128GB variant goes for CNY 1,999 (roughly Rs. 19,800).