Close on the heels of the launch of the Nova 3 Series in India, Huawei, the Chinese smartphone giant has decided to launch a new smartphone in India. The new handset will be sold under Huawei’s sub-brand Honor and is known as the Honor Play. The Honor Play is a rather unique handset owing to the price range it finds itself in. The launch of the Honor Play also brings down the cost of a flagship class processor to unbelievable levels. Let us take a closer look at the handset now, shall we?
Honor Play: Specifications, Hardware
The Honor Play is powered by the powerful Kirin 970 processor from Huawei that is also found doing duty on the likes of the Huawei P20 Pro, the Honor 10 and the Nova 3. The handset ships in two versions – a base 4GB RAM version and a 6GB RAM version. Both the versions come with 64GB of internal storage with the provision to expand the memory further using microSD cards. For graphics, the Kirin 970 SoC integrates the Mali-G72 MP12 GPU. As you might be already aware, the Kirin 970 also integrates a Neural Processing Unit that helps the phone deal with several AI features. The display used on the Honor Play is a large 6.3-inch IPS LCD panel in the 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Prima facie, looks like this is the same panel that the Nova 3 also uses. The phone also gets a large 3750 mAh battery which seems to be identical to the one we saw on the Nova 3.
