Honor, the sub-brand of Huawei, unveiled the Honor 9 a few months ago. The company is now set to officially launch the smartphone in India. Honor has confirmed the launch date of the Honor 9 in India as for October 5 via their official Twitter handle. The tweet was made in order to reply to a customer's query. The highlight of the smartphone is the dual-camera setup sitting at the back of the smartphone.
We are glad to inform you that launch event for Honor 9 will be held on 05-Oct-2017. Kindly stay tuned for more updates. Thanks!
— Honor Smartphone (@Honorglobal) September 29, 2017
Specifications
The Honor 9 is powered by the HiSilicon Kirin 960 SoC coupled with Mali-G71 GPU. The smartphone features a 5.15-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and a pixel density of 428ppi. The Honor 9 is currently available in multiple variants, where the consumer can get a combination of 4GB or 6GB of RAM with 64GB or 128GB of onboard storage. However, it is still not known whether only one variant will make its way to India or all of them. The storage on the device is expandable up to 256GB using a microSD card. The device runs on Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1 layered on top of it out of the box. Under the hood, there is a 3,200mAh battery powering up the smartphone which also supports fast charging. As far as connectivity is concerned, the Honor 9 supports 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS, NFC and USB Type-C.
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On the optics front, the Honor 9 sports a dual-camera setup at the back consisting of a 20-megapixel camera sensor coupled with a 12-megapixel sensor with a dual-tone LED flash. Up front, the phone features an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture.
The Honor 9 is available in Charm Sea Blue, Amber Gold, Gray and Black colour variants.
