Honor 8X officially launching on Sep 5th

[Navinxn]

I've found a news on 91 mobiles that Honor 8X and 8X Max officially launching on Sep 5th in China, but there is no information here.
Honor revealed this piece of information on Weibo — China’s micro-blogging website.
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It said the Honor 8X Max was recently spotted on TENAA with model number ARE-AL00. The listing revealed that the alleged handset would feature a tall 7.12-inch Full HD+ display with a small cut-out up top just like the OPPO F9’s Waterdrop notch.
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Generally, Honor X-Series products always launch with budget price, their selling point is cost effective, however the phones with waterdrop notch on the market like Oppo R17, the price is around 35k.

So I quite wonder this news is true or not, anybody have the rumor or news about Honor 8X's specs? Just curious.

 

[omega44-xt]

I hope the base 8X variant is priced at 12k or so with 6.2" display or so. 8X Max seems to be a competitor of Mi Max series. Let's see with what specs they launch it.

 

[@riya123]

Eagerly waiting

 

[SaiyanGoku]

Generally, Honor X-Series products always launch with budget price, their selling point is cost effective, however the phones with waterdrop notch on the market like Oppo R17, the price is around 35k.

Drop all forms of notch and emui too. Give users control over their phones. Let everyone unlock bootloaders and flash custom roms. You are not Huawei. You should adapt Android One for all phones. Even though Oneplus' parent company was Oppo, they decided to have clean, close to stock android.

HMD global revived Nokia and they are using Android One.

 

[Minion]

Honor 8X seems promising though it success depends on how much they are gonna price it here

 

[billubakra]

They are also launching a phone with a motorized motor just like the find x. Notches are going away.

 

[Minion]

They are also launching a phone with a motorized motor just like the find x. Notches are going away.

Yes, but motorized camera are way worse than notch

 

[billubakra]

Yes, but motorized camera are way worse than notch

Yes. But notches are going away in one way or another.

 

[Nerevarine]

Drop all forms of notch and emui too. Give users control over their phones. Let everyone unlock bootloaders and flash custom roms. You are not Huawei. You should adapt Android One for all phones. Even though Oneplus' parent company was Oppo, they decided to have clean, close to stock android.

HMD global revived Nokia and they are using Android One.

if Nokia makes a AMOLED phone with atleast SD 710 + good camera with OIS for 25k, then thats going to impact a lot.

 

[omega44-xt]

Yes, but motorized camera are way worse than notch

I would say for people who aren't into selfies much, the Vivo Nex S type front cam is a better option. Oppo Find X type motorized units aren't good, apparently Huawei Magic 2 one is similar.

 

[omega44-xt]

if Nokia makes a AMOLED phone with atleast SD 710 + good camera with OIS for 25k, then thats going to impact a lot.

Hope that successor of 7 Plus has those. SD 710 can be expected but I'm not sure if we would see OIS. I personally feel Nokia 7 Plus is a good device at 25k for people who want a branded phone (not Chinese ones). Samsung ones are shit at that price point.

 

[NaumanGill]

I am hoping Honor delivers a nice successor to 7x in the form of 8x.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

Honor 8X seems promising though it success depends on how much they are gonna price it here

Probably between variants of Honor 9N and Honor Play, just like Mi A2 is between RN5 Pro and F1.
PS: Mi A2 makes sense just for Android One. 8x won't have that.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

They are also launching a phone with a motorized motor just like the find x. Notches are going away.

Motorized back camera is totally unnecessary and they could've simply put front camera on the bottom bezel like Mi Mix series.

 

[Minion]

Probably between variants of Honor 9N and Honor Play, just like Mi A2 is between RN5 Pro and F1.
PS: Mi A2 makes sense just for Android One. 8x won't have that.

LOL MiA2 don't have 3.5mm jack

 

[SaiyanGoku]

if Nokia makes a AMOLED phone with atleast SD 710 + good camera with OIS for 25k, then thats going to impact a lot.

They might get specs right but they won't price it under 25k. 7+ was launched at 28k IIRC.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

Hope that successor of 7 Plus has those. SD 710 can be expected but I'm not sure if we would see OIS. I personally feel Nokia 7 Plus is a good device at 25k for people who want a branded phone (not Chinese ones). Samsung ones are shit at that price point.

Every other Samsung phone except S and Note series is a POS. They lack basic sensors for unknown reasons.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

LOL MiA2 don't have 3.5mm jack

Lack of headphone jack vs EMUI, I'd rather ditch both and get Pro M1 or RN5 Pro (for custom roms)

 

[billubakra]

Motorized back camera is totally unnecessary and they could've simply put front camera on the bottom bezel like Mi Mix series.

Or behind the screen, like the supposedly S10.

 

[SaiyanGoku]

Or behind the screen, like the supposedly S10.

I'd rather wait and see it actually implemented rather than discuss about the speculations. Behind the screen camera would be a big deal if done properly.