Honor announced the new Honor 9X duo at an official event in China yesterday. There are two models in the lineup, the Honor 9X and the 9X Pro with both of them featuring Huawei’s 7nm Kirin 810 chipset. The new chipset offers great performance without sacrificing on efficiency with a special focus on AI. The company has priced the Honor 9X pretty aggressively to take on competitor brands such as Xiaomi and Realme. But in the process, it has set a solid sales target for the lineup.
Honor’s President George Zhao revealed to the Chinese media yesterday that the company targets to sell over 20 million units of Honor 9X duo. He added that the new phones have been aggresively priced which calls for such high sales target. On first glance, 20 million seems like a mammoth milestone for just one smartphone series. But for Honor, it might not be as hard as we think.
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The Honor 8X series did really well in China last year. In fact, the brand revealed a few weeks back that a total of 15M+ units of the Honor 8X series were sold in a matter of 9 months. So, it won’t be surprising if the company manages to sell over 20 million unit of the new Honor 9X series featuring an even better Kirin 810 processor.
After the trade ban in May 2019, Huawei and Honor’s international sales were hit pretty hard. But Honor’s George Zhao revealed that the company’s international sales have improved in the past few weeks. So it’s good to see that they are coming back strong. In fact, Huawei is still said to register a shipment growth of 30% in the first half of this year.
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