For those looking to supersize their daily driver, Honor has gone beyond the limits of how big a smartphone should be. It has the Honor Note 10, 8X Max, and 8X — three of its largest handsets — in its arsenal.
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And while the first two may not be arriving in the Philippines, the 6.5-inch Honor 8X is. In fact, it will be available in the country starting October 13 — just in time for the opening of the first Honor Philippines concept store. And for an attractive price at that. The model with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage will sell for P12,990 (roughly $240), just as we predicted last month.
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Preorder starts today, October 10, and ends on October 13 (could this be a typo? Shouldn’t this be October 12?). Early adopters will get freebies worth P2,499 ($46).
Honor 8X preorder freebies, as seen on MemoXpress’ website
As with Honor’s other hero phones, the Honor 8X will not only be sold online through Lazada, Shopee, and MemoXpress.com, it can also be bought from brick-and-mortar shops. Below is the list of authorized resellers for the device:
Greater Manila Area
- SM Megamall (Villaman)
- SM City North EDSA (Mediabox)
- SM Mall of Asia (MemoXpress)
- SM City Fairview (Fun Mobile)
- SM City San Lazaro (Technomobile)
- TriNoma (Siena Mobile)
- Glorietta 1 (Fonestyle)
- Market! Market! (PCExpress)
- Robinsons Place Manila (MegaOne)
- Festival Mall (MemoXpress)
Northern and Central Luzon
- SM City Clark (Gentext)
- SM City Tarlac (Digital Tunnel)
- Ayala Malls Harbor Point (Fonerange)
- Robinsons Place Malolos (Subscribers Place Telecoms)
- CSI City Mall Dagupan (Wow! Mobile and PC Market)
- Tiongsan Harrison, Baguio (Tiongsan Harrison and Department Store)
Southern Luzon
- SM City Calamba (Greentelcom)
- SM City Bacoor (Fonestyle)
- SM City Batangas (Presnet)
- SM City Lipa (Greentelcom)
- SM City Lucena (Greentelcom)
- SM City Puerto Princesa (Puerto Electronico)
Visayas
- SM City Cebu (Aerophone)
- SM City Consolacion (Thinking Tools)
- SM City Iloilo (Aerophone)
- SM City Bacolod (Galleon)
- Robinsons Place Tacloban (Cellcom)
- Island City Mall Bohol (Save N Earn)
Mindanao
- Gmall of Davao (Wiltelcom)
The Honor 8X is the first smartphone of the Huawei sub-brand to be powered by Kirin 710, the same 12nm chip that debuted on the Huawei Nova 3i. It boasts a high, 91 percent screen-to-body ratio; an AI dual camera with “super night shot photography” feature; a metal middle frame; and a 2.5D double-texture aurora glass body with a grating effect.
The Honor 8X boasts a 6.5-inch notched screen with a high, 91 percent screen-to-body ratio and a tall, 19.5:9 aspect ratio.
Honor 8X specs
- 6.5-inch IPS-LCD notched display, 2,340 x 1,080 resolution, 19.5:9 aspect ratio
- Octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 710 processor
- 4GB RAM
- 128GB memory
- 20-megapixel (f/1.8 aperture) + 2-megapixel rear cameras with LED flash
- 16-megapixel (f/2.0 aperture) front camera
- Rear-mounted fingerprint sensor
- 3,750mAh battery
- Android 8.1 Oreo-based EMUI 8.2
- Black, blue, red, purple
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