Huawei on Monday announced the launch of the latest budget smartphone in China. Yes, Honor on Monday has announced the Honor 7C. It starts at CNY 899 (€115) for the 3GB+32GB model and tops out at CNY 1,299 (€166) for the 4GB+64GB one.
Honor 7C comes with a 5.99-inch 1440x720pxdisplay of 18:9 aspect with 2.5D curved glass on top. There’s a Snapdragon 450 chipset (with the aforementioned 3GB or 4GB of RAM), a microSD card slot and dual-SIM as standard.
It also comes with Face Unlock capabilities and a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. Additionally, the Honor 7C offers portrait mode on both the front as well as the rear camera. There is currently no update on an India launch or, for that matter, launch in any other market. But it will go on sale in the Chinese market starting Tuesday 13.
Detailed Specification on Honor 7C:
| NETWORK | Technology | GSM / HSPA / LTE |
| LAUNCH | Announced | 2018, March |
| Status | Available. Released 2018, March |
| BODY | Dimensions | 158.3 x 76.7 x 7.8 mm (6.23 x 3.02 x 0.31 in) |
| Weight | 164 g (5.78 oz) | |
| SIM | Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) |
| DISPLAY | Type | IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors |
| Size | 5.99 inches, 92.6 cm2 (~76.3% screen-to-body ratio) | |
| Resolution | 720 x 1440 pixels, 18:9 ratio (~269 ppi density) | |
| Multitouch | Yes | |
| – EMUI 8.0 |
| PLATFORM | OS | Android 8.0 (Oreo) |
| Chipset | Qualcomm SDM450 Snapdragon 450 | |
| CPU | Octa-core 1.8 GHz Cortex-A53 | |
| GPU | Adreno 506 |
| MEMORY | Card slot | microSD, up to 256 GB (dedicated slot) |
| Internal | 64 GB, 4 GB RAM or 32 GB, 3 GB RAM |
| CAMERA | Primary | Dual: 13 MP + 2 MP, phase detection autofocus, LED flash |
| Features | Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama | |
| Video | 1080p@30fps | |
| Secondary | 8 MP, LED flash |
| SOUND | Alert types | Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones |
| Loudspeaker | Yes | |
| 3.5mm jack | Yes | |
| – Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic |
| COMMS | WLAN | Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot |
| Bluetooth | 4.2, A2DP, LE | |
| GPS | Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS | |
| Radio | No | |
| USB | microUSB 2.0 |
| FEATURES | Sensors | Fingerprint (rear-mounted), accelerometer, proximity, compass |
| Messaging | SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM | |
| Browser | HTML5 | |
| – MP4/H.264 player – MP3/eAAC+/WAV/Flac player – Document viewer – Photo/video editor |
| BATTERY | Non-removable Li-Ion 3000 mAh battery | |
| MISC | Colors | Black, Red, Gold, Blue |
| Price | About 140 EUR |
