Huawei Honor 5X

The Huawei Honor 5X (Chinese: 荣耀畅玩5X) is a mid-range Android smartphone by Huawei. It uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor and an aluminum body design. It was first released in China in October 2015, and was released in the United States and India in January 2016.

Features

Hardware

The Honor 5X has a metal-clad design using "aviation-grade aluminum" for its body. It uses a 5.5 inch 1080p fully laminated display with a pixel density of 401 ppi, octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor with an Adreno 405 GPU, 2 or 3 GB of DDR3 RAM memory, and 16 GB of internal storage.^[1] It has "Fingerprint 2.0 technology",which allows user to directly unlock the smartphone with just user input^[2] using an FPC1020 fingerprint scanner.^[3] The Honor 5X comes with 13 Megapixel rear camera with dual-LED flash, f/2.0 aperture and Phase Detection AutoFocus. It has a f/2.4 5 Megapixel front facing camera. It comes in 16GB in-built storage which can be expanded up to 128GB using MicroSD card and has a 3000 mAh battery.

Software from Huawei

Huawei Honor 5x comes with Huawei's custom EMUI UI version 3.1 atop Android 5.1.1 Lollipop which has since been updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow and EMUI 4.

Open source software options

Open-source software based on stock Android have also been created for the Honor 5x. Currently, there is an unofficial version based on CyanogenMod 13.0 (based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow) from XDA Developers.^[4][5]

History

The Honor 5X was first announced at an event held by Huawei in Chengdu on 27 October 2015.^[2] The smartphone was initially offered in two versions; the model with 2 GB of RAM memory had a price of CN¥ 999 and the model with 3 GB of RAM memory had a price of CN¥ 1,399.^[6] It launched in India at ₹12,999.^[7] On January 28, it was listed on Flipkart and Amazon for sale.

On 6 January 2016, during CES 2016, Huawei announced that the version of the Honor 5X with 2 GB of RAM memory would be sold in the United States for US$199.^[3]

References

Notes

1. 朝 2015.
2. 徐 2015.
3. Ho 2016.
4. "[ROM] [6.0.x] [BETA] Unofficial CyanogenMod 13.0 Nightly Builds (KIW-L24 / L22 / L21)". XDA Developers. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
5. Hall, Stephen (2016-05-02). "Opinion: CyanogenMod improves the Honor 5X enough to make it my daily driver [Video]". 9to5Google. Retrieved 2016-05-29.
6. Feng 2015.
7. shiwam 2016.

Sources

• Feng, Sanji (27 October 2015). "华为荣耀畅玩 5X 发布，还是熟悉的味道". Engadget (in Chinese). AOL. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
• Ho, Joshua (6 January 2016). "Hands On With the Huawei Honor 5X". AnandTech. Purch. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
• 徐, 庆龙 (27 October 2015). "千元机中的旗舰领航者 荣耀畅玩5X评测". 泡泡网 (in Chinese). Retrieved 16 January 2016.
• 朝, 晖 (27 October 2015). "售价够狠！华为荣耀5X开订：3G内存+全金属机身". MyDrivers.com (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 16 January 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
• In, Shiwam (28 January 2016). "Huawei Honor 5X lanched also in India". Shiwam IN. Shiwam. Retrieved 28 January 2016.