New Delhi: Chinese telecom major Huawei has launched it new budget smartphone, the Honor 5C, in India at a price of Rs. 10,999. The smartphone will go on sale through Flipkart and HiHonor.com on June 30. The registrations for the device will open at 2 pm on Wednesday.
The Honor 5C comes with a 15-month warranty and screen replacement warranty for the first month. The smartphone will also come with a fingerprint sensor and 4G connectivity.
The smartphone was launched in China back in April. The dual-SIM Honor 5C will sport a Micro-SIM card and 4G LTE connectivity on both the SIM cards. The handset will support LTE Cat. 6 which means that the smartphone will support download speeds of up to 300Mbps and upload speeds of up to 50Mbps.
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The Honor 5C features HiSilicon Kirin 650 octa-core processor (4 Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7GHz + 4 Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2GHz). The smartphone comes with 2GB of RAM and packs 16GB of storage which can be expanded via microSD card (up to 128GB). The Honor 5C runs Emotion UI 4.1 that is based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow.It sports a 13-megapixel rear camera with an f/2.0 aperture and LED flash. The front has a 8-megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture lens.
Apart from 4G, connectivity options include GPRS/ EDGE, 3G, GPS/ A-GPS, Glonass, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi connectivity options. The smartphone comes with regular Micro-USB charging port. The smartphone measures 147.1x73.8x8.3mm and weighs 156 grams. It is powered by a 3000mAh battery.
