Honor is starting off its product push in the Indian market this year with the Honor 10 Lite. The company, as many have been saying, is competing against its own range of products, and besides that, they have Xiaomi and Asus to contend with.
The sub-Rs 20,000 price segment is hotly contested and Honor is hopeful that its Honor 9 Lite successor has all the traits to succeed in the country. The phone has been priced at Rs 13,999 for the 4GB RAM variant and will be available from 20 January onwards.
This is another dual-camera totting device, with claims of packing a screen-to-body ratio of over 80 percent, all thanks to the use of the water drop notch, which was first seen on the Vivo and OnePlus devices.
Honor 10 Lite sports a 6.2-inch 2340x1080 pixels resolution screen, which according to Honor gets 83 percent screen-to-body ratio. This is helped by the water drop notch design that gives you more screen estate for viewing. The phone’s running on EMui 9.0, which is based on Android 9.0 Pie.
This is rather impressive, considering brands like Samsung are yet to upgrade their existing Galaxy devices to the latest Android version, and we’re already into January 2019. The device gets powered by a Kirin 710 processor with 4GB and even 6GB RAM, with storage starting from 64GB and further expandable via a hybrid SIM slot.
Design-wise, you’re getting a phone that carries glass elements at the back, and a full-viewing screen, with no home button for navigation. The dual rear cameras (13 and 2 megapixels) promise images with decent quality, but we’ll reserve our verdict for the review. At the front, you get a 24-megapixel snapper, which is capable of recording videos in 1080 pixels resolution.
There’s a fingerprint scanner at the back and you can rely on the software-enabled face recognition feature as well. The headphone jack has been retained, for those of you who still care about the finer details.
For connectivity and charging the 3400mAh battery, you have a microUSB 2.0 port, which is the go-to trend for devices in this price bracket.
The brand went on a launch spree in 2018 and by the looks of it, we’re going to see a repeat of that in 2019 as well.
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