Honor has announced that the recently announced Honor 9 Lite will go on sale from January 21 from midnight 12 onwards exclusively on Flipkart. Flipkart has already activated the ‘notify me’ option for the smartphone and has already received interest from 4 million customers. The device is priced at INR 10,999 for the 3GB RAM with 32GB storage and the 4GB RAM with 64GB storage is priced at INR 14,999.
The Honor 9 Lite sports a 5.65-inch display up front with Full HD+ (2160 x 1080 pixels) and 2.5D curved glass, it is powered by the in-house Kirin 659 Octa-core SoC clocked at 2.4GHz and is coupled with Mali T830-MP2 GPU. Honor 9 Lite comes with 3 or 4GB RAM and 32 or 64GB storage with microSD card support up to 256GB. It is running on EMUI 8.0 on top of Android 8.0 Oreo and is packed with 3000mAh battery.
The rear camera comes with 13MP+2MP sensors with dual-tone LED flash, the secondary 2MP rear camera is to capture depth information for portrait shots. At the front, it sports a 13MP+2MP front-facing camera with soft LED flash. The secondary front camera also helps in getting depth effect and can also get more details from the source. The fingerprint scanner is placed at the rear of the device, under the dual camera. Other features of the device include Hybrid Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS.
Honor 9 Lite Specs
- 5.9-inch (2160 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ 18:9 2.5D curved glass display
- 2.4GHz Octa-Core Kirin 659 processor, Mali T830-MP2 GPU
- 3GB/4GB RAM
- 32/64GB internal storage, microSD card support up to 256GB
- 13MP+2MP rear camera with dual-tone LED flash
- 13MP+2MP front-facing camera with soft LED flash
- Android 8.0 Nougat, EMUI 8.0
- 3000mAh battery
- Rear fingerprint sensor
- Hybrid Dual SIM, 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS
- Thickness: 7.6mm and Weight: 149g
The Honor 9 Lite will come with a complimentary back cover and during the flash sale customers also avail bank offer of 10% cashback on Citibank Credit and Debit Cards at Flipkart. Further, Flipkart also offers the customers guaranteed up to INR 7000 Buyback Value.
“We are very delighted with the opportunity to showcase Huawei’s Honor brand on Flipkart.com, and to bring the Honor 9 Lite to the Indian customers right after the China launch before any other market globally. India is one of the fastest growing economies and we are delighted to partner with Flipkart.com and we believe they are in sync with our expectations and strategies of how we want to reach the consumers,” stated P. Sanjeev, Vice President, Huawei Consumer Business Group.
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Honor Lite 9 is really a great smartphone. Most of us were thinking that the pricing of this smartphone will be high but the smartphone has been launched at a very reasonable price. Loved the smartphone.