Honor 9X

The Honor 9X uses a completely bezel-less screen, unlike the Honor 8X s screen which had a waterdrop-shaped notch. The newer phone has a 6.5-inch LTPS IPS LCD screen panel with Full HD+ resolution (2340x1080 pixels), 19.5:9 aspect ratio, and a capacitive touchscreen. There s a side-mounted fingerprint reader, which makes up for an ergonomic design as well as makes way for a bezel-less screen. The phone uses a plastic chassis but there are glass panels on the front and the rear.

The Honor 9X is the company s first phone with a Kirin 810 processor. The Kiri 810 uses a 7nm lithography process for a smaller footprint and improved power efficiency. The chipset has two two ARM Cortex-A76 CPU cores clocked at 2.27GHz, six ARM Cortex-A55 CPU cores clocked at 1.88GHz, and the ARM Mali-G52 GPU. There s at least 4GB of RAM and at least 64GB of internal storage. There s a microSD card slot for storage space expansion. The Honor 9X runs Android 9 Pie-based EMUI 9.0 software.

The Honor 9X uses a dual-camera setup for its rear-facing camera. Also, in sync with 2019 s smartphone imaging trend, the phone uses a 48MP primary sensor. There s a 2MP depth sensor for capturing images with background blur. The 48MP camera sensor has PDAF, F1.8 aperture, 1/2-inch sensor, and 4K 30fps video recording. Honor has used a motorized pop-up mechanism to hide its front-facing camera. It s a 16MP camera with F2.2 aperture and 1080p 30fps video recording.

The Honor 9X is equipped with a larger battery to power a more potent processor. It comes packed with a 4000mAh non-removable battery. The phone comes bundled with a 10W charger. The Honor 9X features not only dual-SIM card slot, but also dual-4G LTE, dual-VoLTE, and dual-band Wi-Fi b/g/n/ac. Other connectivity features of the phone include A-GPS, BDS, GLONASS, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth 5.0, USB 2.0 Type-C port, and a 3.5mm headphone jack.