Huawei has announced the successor to the last year’s Honor 8 which is the Honor 9. Huawei Honor 9 is the latest flagship from Huawei’s sub-brand Honor. The main talking points of the Huawei Honor 9 are its 6 GB of RAM, dual rear camera setup same as the Honor 8 as well as the device is powered by a Kirin 960 chipset. The handset is available in two variants — one which comes with 64GB and the other with 128GB of onboard storage space. There’s a 4GB RAM variant too.
Talking about the specifications of the phone, the Huawei Honor 9 comes with a dual camera setup where the camera specifications of the phone are 20MP + 12MP. The device sports a 5.15-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) LTPS display offering a pixel density of 428 PPI. Under the hood is the 64-bit Kirin 960 octa-core processor clocked at 2.4GHz and comes coupled with Mali-G71 MP8 GPU. There is also a MicroSD card for further expansion of storage up to 256GB. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat based EMUI 5.1 out of the box. The device s dual SIM dual standby using the hybrid slot where the can either opt for a secondary SIM or MicroSD card. Talking about the dual camera setup on the rear, there is a 20MP Monochrome sensor and a 12MP RGW sensor with f/2.2 aperture, PDAF, Laser autofocus, and dual tone LED flash. As seen on the iPhone 7 Plus and Xiaomi Mi 6, the Honor 9 can also capture photos with the 2X lossless zoom which the company calls as hybrid zoom.
The device also offers Hi-Fi audio output with the AKM audio chip and the in-house Huawei hinsten audio processing technology. Coming to pricing, the Honor 9 with 4GB RAM and 64GB of storage is priced at 2299 Yuan (approx $339 / Rs. 22,000), whereas the 6GB RAM variant with 64GB and 128GB of storage costs 2699 Yuan (approx $399 / Rs. 25,500) and 2999 Yuan (approx $439 / Rs. 28,500) respectively.
