Honor has recently announced its latest mid-range smartphone in India, the Honor 8X. The Huawei sub-brand has provided the device with a brand new mid-range chipset: the HiSilicon Kirin 710. The Honor 8X comes at a starting price of INR 14,999. However, you can get the handset, featuring 4GB RAM and 64GB onboard storage, for free. Honor is hosting an interesting online contest that will give you a chance to grab an Honor 8X for INR 0. Read on to know how to participate.
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Honor Bargain Bazar Contest Details
The rules of the game are quite simple, you first need to visit this link and log in with your credentials. Here, you will see that the listed price of the device is INR 14,999 and you have to bring this amount down to zero by slashing the prices. You can start the game by slashing the price once and then you need to involve your friends in the activity to achieve the target. A friend can only help you slash a maximum of INR 25, so you need to bring as many people as possible to reach to the target. You can copy the URL to the game from Facebook and spread it across all your social media networks to invite more people. The fastest user to reach INR zero would win the Honor 8X.
Note that the people you invite to slash the price can start their own activity as well. If they succeed to bring down the price to INR 0 before you do, they end up winning the handset. So, you need to bring as many people as you can to get there first. The contest is live for two more days.
Honor 8X Core Specs
The Honor 8X sports a 6.5-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 2340×1080 pixels and an aspect ratio of 19.5:9. Under the hood, the device is powered by a 12nm process based Hisilicon Kirin 710 processor. This is a major upgrade over its predecessor Honor 7X, which uses a 16nm process based Kirin 659 chipset. The chipset gets an ARM Mali-G51MP4 GPU for handling the graphics. The smartphone comes in three storage variants: one with 4GB RAM and 64GB onboard storage, a mid-range variant with the same internal storage and 6GB RAM, and a top-end variant with 6GB RAM and 128GB onboard storage. The storage variants are priced at INR 14,999, INR 16,999, and INR 18,999, respectively.
In the imaging department, the Honor 8X gets a dual-camera set up at the rear comprising a 20MP f/1.8 snapper, paired to a 2MP depth sensor. The front of the device houses a 16MP f/2.0 shooter for capturing selfies. All the camera units get AI-assisted features like enhanced portrait mode, scene recognition, and more. The Honor 8X is backed by a 3750 mAh battery and it comes with a 10-watt fast charger. On the software front, the device runs Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI 8.2 skin on top. As for connectivity, the options that tag along with the device include Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2 with LE, GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, microUSB 2.0. The device also features a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor. In terms of dimensions, it measures 160.4 x 76.6 x 7.8 mm and weighs in at 175 grams.
The device goes on sale starting October 24 and will be sold as an Amazon exclusive handset.
