Here’s all we know about the upcoming Honor 9 smartphone so far.
For quite some while now, the word’s been out that Huawei’s sub-brand Honor is working on the Honor 8 successor. While we have heard a bunch of leaks about the Honor 9, the launch date had long been unknown. However now, right from the horse’s mouth, a save the date has been sent out.
According to the invite shared by the leakster Roland Quandt, who goes by the Twitter handle, @rquandt, the Honor 9 could be unveiled on June 27th. The poster touts the product as ‘The Light Catcher’.
Honor having a flagship launch on June 27th. Will this be about the Honor ’9′? pic.twitter.com/PLPBL4jpmm
— Roland Quandt (@rquandt) May 15, 2017
Though we expect a bunch of leaks going further closer to the release date of the Honor 9, there’s still plentiful we already know about the smartphone. A recently leaked render showed the placement of fingerprint scanner being shifted from the back to the front of the device, where the home button is likely to double up as a biometric sensor.
Just like the Honor 8, the Honor 9 is believed to sport a dual-rear camera setup along with laser auto-focus and dual-LED flash. There’s, however, no word on whether the setup will include RGB + monochrome sensors or a combination of wide-angle and telephoto lens. ALSO READ: Honor 9 leaked render hints at dual-camera setup, Xiaomi Mi 6-like design
While that’s the limit of what the leaks have put forth so far, we can draw a perspective by a recap of what the Honor 8 was like. The predecessor of the smartphone is question was launched in India for Rs 29,999. It featured a 5.2-inch full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) 2.5D curved glass display, and was powered by a 2.3GHz octa-core Kirin 950 processor and Mali T880-MP4 GPU paired with 4GB of RAM and 32GB onboard storage, which was expandable up to 256GB using a microSD card.
On the camera front, the Honor 8 sport a dual-rear camera setup with two 12-megapixel cameras along with dual-tone LED flash light. The primary rear camera has f/2.2 aperture and Laser AF. Up front, there was an 8-megapixel front-camera with f/2.4 aperture for selfies. ALSO READ: Honor 8 Review
Keeping the smartphone ticking is a 3,000mAh battery. Connectivity options include a USB Type-C port, dual-SIM tray, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, Accelerometer, Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Infrared Sensor, Compass, Gyroscope, and NFC. On the software front, the smartphone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system with EMUI 4.1 on top. हिंदी में भी पढ़ें: हुवावे हॉनर 9 स्मार्टफोन को 27 जून को किया जाएगा पेश, इंटरनेट पर जानकारी आई सामने