Honor Launches The Honor 9 Lite
by Andrei Frumusanu on February 6, 2018 6:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Mobile
- Smartphones
- Honor 9 Lite
- Kirin 659
Today Honor officially launches the Honor 9 Lite for western markets. The launch follows that of the Honor 7X and V10 last month which were the company’s first models to sport 18:9 screen aspect ratios. The Honor 9 Lite follows the trend and also introduces itself as a slightly smaller 5.65” diameter variant.
| New Honor 9 Lite | |||
| Honor 9 Lite | Honor 9 | ||
| SoC | HiSilicon Kirin 659 4x Cortex-A53 @ 2.36GHz 4x Cortex-A53 @ 1.70GHz ARM Mali-T830MP2 @ 900MHz |
HiSilicon Kirin 960 4x Cortex-A73 @ 2.362GHz 4x Cortex-A53 @ 1.844GHz ARM Mali-G71MP8 @ 1033MHz |
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| Display | 5.65-inch 2160x1080 (18:9) LTPS IPS LCD |
5.15-inch 1920x1080 (16:9) LTPS IPS LCD |
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| Dimensions | 151.0 x 71.9 x 7.6 mm 149 grams |
147.3 x 70.9 x 7.45 mm 155 g |
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| RAM | 3GB LPDDR3 | 4/6GB LPDDR4X-1833 | |
| NAND | 32GB + microSD |
64/128GB + microSD |
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| Battery | 3000 mAh (11.55 Wh) non-replaceable |
3200 mAh (12.32 Wh) non-replaceable |
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| Front Camera | Main Sensor: 13MP Secondary Sensor: 2MP |
8MP F/1.8 | |
| Rear Camera | Main Sensor: 13MP Secondary Sensor: 2MP LED flash |
RGB Sensor: 12MP, f/2.2 - 27mm eq. Monochrome Sensor: 20MP f/2.2 - 27mm eq. LED flash |
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| Modem | HiSilicon LTE (Integrated) 2G / 3G / 4G LTE |
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| SIM Size | 2x NanoSIM (dual standby) or 1x NanoSIM + microSD | ||
| Wireless | 802.11a/b/g/n, BT 4.2, GPS/Glonass/BDS | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, BT 4.2 LE, NFC, GPS/Glonass/BDS | |
| Connectivity | USB 2.0 microUSB 3.5mm headset |
USB 2.0 USB-C 3.5mm headset |
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| Sensors | capacitive fingerprint, accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, ambient light, proximity, Hall effect, barometer | ||
| Launch OS | Android 8.0 with EMUI 8.0 | Android 7.0 with EMUI 5.1 | |
| Launch Price | EUR 229€ / GBP £199 | EUR 450€ / GBP £380 | |
The internals of the Honor 9 Lite shares much with that of the Honor 7X. Both are powered by a 16nm Kirin 659 chipset sporting two clusters of quad-core A53’s running at respectively 2.36 and 1.7GHz. There is a large performance jump between little-core only SoC and ones which employ bigger CPU core microarchitectures so this is still a mid- to low-end device. The phone comes with 3GB of LPDDR3 and the GPU is also a lower-end Mali T830MP2 at 900MHz.
The screen is the most defining characteristic of the Honor 9 Lite as it quickly adapts the trend of “full view” smartphones, meaning it sports a 18:9 screen that has a very high screen-to-body ratio. The screen itself is of a standard FHD+ (2160x1080) resolution which matches that of the 7X and V10 and comes at a 5.65” diagonal. The phone is advertised to still have the handling of a traditional 5.2” phone as the width comes in at 71.9mm, only one millimetre wider than the Honor 9.
Both the front and the back of the phone employ 2.5D glass, with the back glass covered in a special nano-coating to give it a mirror-like effect.
Unique for the Honor 9 Lite is however the introduction of a quad-camera system. The rear sensors employ the 13MP + 2MP configuration that was revealed on the Honor 7X. The secondary 2MP sensor is meant to capture depth information that the imaging pipeline can use for better bokeh effects. This configuration is now also employed on the front face of the Honor 9 Lite which should open up new options in regards to selfie captures.
In terms of connectivity the lower-priced device has to make some concessions as it lacks 802.11ac capability which is present on its non-Lite counterpart. Beyond the Chinese variants of the phone today’s announced European model offers all the required European LTE frequency bands for optimal operation in that market. Like the Honor 7X, the 9 Lite comes with a microUSB port.
The Honor 9 Lite becomes available from Amazon and various UK retailers starting today, at the affordable prices of EUR 229€ or GBP £199.
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BedfordTim - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link
They lost me at glass back.Alistair - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link
Buy a one year old flagship instead. They lost me at the A53 as usual. Buy anything with an A72 or A73 (even 2 cores) instead. Even an old model.arvindgr - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link
Every aspect of the phone is nice and fine, except micro USB. Even WiFi ac is forgivable for its budget. I'm for sure not buying Non-USB-C that launches in 2018!!Ian Cutress - Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - link
So the argument here (from honor) is that for this price segment, the crowd are still heavily invested in microUSB cables and chargers and so forth. At this price segment, dropping $5 on additional A-to-C cables is a substantial cost, and so the market pressures push them to microUSB.I did then iterate that quote about 'if you ask the customer, all they want is faster horses', and that honor actually needs to push if they want to see Type-C adoption in this space. Alas, none of the product design team were at hand.
BuckMcDuck - Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - link
Agreed. I was really interested in 7x and now this. But micro usb... gah, I can't tell you how many bad micro usb cables I have. The connector just doesn't last.Excelsior - Friday, February 9, 2018 - link
Yes! I can't stand Micro usb anymore. No matter the quality of the cable, they inevitably break or wear out, including the port on the phone sometimes. At some point the phone manufacturers need to stop worrying about removing the 3.5mm jack and switch everything to Type-C.notashill - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link
When did Huawei drop their name from the Honor phones?Ariknowsbest - Tuesday, February 6, 2018 - link
At least on my last year's model it says powered by Huawei on the back next to the CE logo. Its like Toyota and Lexusapjsmartseo - Monday, February 19, 2018 - link
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