Huawei Honor 5X

Our Huawei Honor 5X review takes a look at another budget smartphone from the Chinese device maker. Read on to find out what we thought.

Fewer bucks, more bangs.

Huawei’s latest Honor smartphone has an excellent fingerprint scanner, good screen, camera and battery life, but customised Android Lollipop isn’t up to par

A premium phablet that's unbelievably cheap

What does latest affordable smartphone offering from Huawei bring to the table? We find out, in this in-depth honor 5X review!

In-depth review of the Honor 5X (Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 MSM8939v2, Qualcomm Adreno 405, 5.5", 158 ) with numerous measurements, benchmarks, and ratings

You make some sacrifices in the camera department, but otherwise, this low-cost Android handset gives you plenty for your money.

With its metal design, 1080p screen and long battery life, it's hard to find a better phone than the Huawei Honor 5X for $200.

The Huawei Honor 5X is perfectly fine, but its mostly metal design makes this $200 chunk of phone passable as something much nicer than it really is. Once you get beyond the hardware illusion, you’re left with a major software identity crisis. On the Honor 5X, that crisis is called Emotion UI (EMUI), Huawei’s own…

Text: Avani Bagga,TOI Tech Chinese smartphone maker Huawei recently introduced its Honor 5X in India. Priced at Rs 12,999, Huawei Honor 5X features a 5.5-inch Full HD display and runs a 1.5GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. It sports a 13MP primary camera with LED flash and a 5MP secondary camera and runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop operating system skinned with the EMUI. While on paper the smartphone seems good, we spent some time with it to find out if it's a good buy: Huawei Honor 5X review

The Huawei Honor 5X is the best looking affordable unlocked phone you can buy, but it's held back by an obtrusive UI and some performance issues.