Honor Play with 6.3-inch Full HD+ display, AI dual rear cameras launched in India

Honor is on a roll in India with launching a new device every month capturing the budget smartphone market. Today Honor has launched their another offering in the higher mimid-range price bracket smartphone in the form of Honor Play which aims to offer flagship level specifications and build quality at half the price of a flagship device.

The Honor Play packs a 6.3-inch Full HD+ 19:5:9 display with a notch and a 89% screen-to-body ratio, is powered by Kirin 970 10nm processor with 4GB/6GB of RAM. It also features a NPU as well as GPU Turbo graphics processing acceleration technology that increases graphics processing efficiency of mobile phones for smoother and faster mobile experience, especially for mobile games.

The Honor Play comes in Midnight Black and Navy Blue color variants. The 4GB RAM with 64GB internal storage is priced at INR 19,999 and the 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage is priced at INR 23,999 and will be available at Amazon.in starting at 4PM today.

Launch offers

• Extra savings on EMI transactions with Axis Card.
• 120 GB of free data for a period of 12 months to Vodafone customers with recharge with Rs. 199 or above. 10GB free data extra for 12 months on any Vodafone RED plan starting Rs. 399 and 1 year Amazon Prime for postpaid customers

Honor Play specifications:

• Dimensions: 157.91×74.27×7.84mm; Weight: 176g
• 6.3-inch (2340 x 1080 pixels) Full HD+ LCD 19:5:9 2.5D curved glass display, 85% NTSC color gamut
• Octa-Core Huawei Kirin 970 (4 x 2.4 GHz A73+ 4 x 1.8 GHz A53) 10nm processor with Mali-G72 MP12 GPU, i7 co-processor, NPU, GPU Turbo
• 6GB LPDDR4X RAM, 64GB (UFS 2.1) internal storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with microSD
• Android 8.1 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.2
• Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / microSD)
• 16MP rear camera with LED flash, f/2.2 aperture, PDAF, CAF, secondary 2MP rear camera with f/2.4 aperture
• 16MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture
• Fingerprint sensor | Face Unlock
• 3.5mm audio jack, 7.1-channel Histen audio
• Dual 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11ac (2.4GHz/5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2 LE, GPS, NFC, USB Type-C
• 3750mAh battery with fast charging (18W charger)

We did the unboxing of the Honor Play smartphone, do check it out.