With the impending US ban set to take its toll on Huawei‘s usage of Google’s Android services, the company today announced the flagship Honor 20 and Honor 20 Pro as scheduled. The pricing details of the Honor 20 Lite was also announced today. The Honor 20 Lite was earlier listed on Honor’s Russia website as Honor 10i but the pricing wasn’t revealed. The device will be available in Europe for €300. While in the United Kingdom, the phone adopts a £250 price tag and will be available at Carphone Warehouse, Amazon, Argos, John Lewis and Very.

The Honor is a mid-range model with trimmed down specs from the Honor 20. In terms of specs, it features a 6.21-inch 2340 x 1080 pixels waterdrop notch display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. There is also GPU Turbo 2.0 for improved gaming performance. Its screen is also certified as safe by TUV Rheinland. The phone is powered by the Hisilicon Kirin 710 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage (512GB max.).

On the camera aspect, the Honor 20 Lite features a 32MP selfie camera that is housed inside the notch. The selfie camera has lots of face-adjustment features so your portrait selfies can turn out great. On the back of the phone lies the triple camera sensors – a 24MP f/1.8 primary camera, an 8MP f/2.4 ultra-wide angle secondary sensor, and a 2MP f/2.4 depth sensor.  The phone runs EMUI 9 based on Android 9 and even though Google is pulling the plugs on updates for future Huawei phones, the company says it will continue pushing its own updates. The phone also comes with NFC, dual-SIM support (nano only), dual-SIM VoLTE, and NFC. There is a fingerprint scanner on the back and it also has support for Face Unlock. The device is powered by a 3,400mAh battery.

Read Also: Huawei P Smart Z vs Huawei P30 Lite vs Honor 20 Lite: Specs Comparison

The phone is no doubt a premium and affordable one at that price but most buyers would likely be sceptical about sticking their money on a Huawei or Honor model at the moment.

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Honor 10 was last year’s Honor flagship which came with several iterations such as Honor 10 GT and Honor 10 Lite. Honor is about adding a new model known as Honor 10i. Images of the unannounced model appeared in Russia last month. The Honor 10i has now been certified by China’s TENAA. 

The model appears with model number HRY-TL00T and HRY-AL00Ta, and the major difference from what we already know is that the device will also have 6 GB of RAM. hile the HRY-TL00T variant is listed with only 4/128 GB, the HRY-AL00Ta has more memory options,  such as 4/64 GB, 6/64 GB, and 6/128 GB. The rest of the specifications remain the same.

Read Also: Honor 10i images leak, will have three rear cameras

As a reminder, the Honor 10i features a 6.21-inch LCD display with a waterdrop notch that houses a 32MP selfie camera. The device is powered by a Kirin 710 chipset. Te Honor 10i also sports a triple camera setup on the back. The camera consists of a 24 MP f/1.8 main camera sensor teaming up with an 8 MP f/2.4 ultra-wide-angle shooter and a 2 MP depth sensor. The device will run Android Pie-based EMUI 9.0 out of the box. The Honor model was said to have a price tag of around $300 in Russia. The price in China is expected to be slightly cheaper.

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Ever since Honor became the independent sub-brand of Huawei, it has carved out its own style. Honor 10 had several variants last year, such as Honor 10, Honor 10 GT and Honor 10 Lite. Now, there is a new variant incoming called the Honor 10i. And we have got a few images of the new handset.

Looking at the images, Honor 10i will adopt a water-drop notch design that has become quite common among smartphones. Obviously, the screen-to-body ratio will be high up to at least 91%. At the rear back side, Honor 10i still keeps the gradient color design. It may offer three gradient colors for customers to pick, which are red to purple gradient, blue to purple gradient and a plain black.

Honor 10i should be powered by Kirin 710 processor, coming in with 6.21-inch display having the resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels. In the camera department, there should be 24MP+8MP+2MP rear triple cameras and a 32MP front-facing camera. It will be fueled by 3400mAh battery, with a rear fingerprint sensor. What’s more, the Honor 10i should run on Android 9.0.

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Huawei’s last-generation midrange family is one of the biggest ones in the smartphones market not only because of the high number of Huawei devices released, but also thanks to the ones from its sub-brand Honor. The latest Huawei mid-rangers announced are the Nova 4e that will soon head to Europe under the P30 Lite moniker, the Honor 10i that is essentially a better version of the Honor 10 Lite, and the Huawei P Smart+ 2019 which recently hitten the global market with a great quality-price ratio. If you want to know which Huawei mid-ranger you should buy in the upcoming future, go ahead with this comparison and discover it.

Huawei Nova 4e vs Huawei Honor 10i vs Huawei P Smart+ 2019

Design

There are no huge differences in the aesthetics of these three handsets. All come with a stunning gradient back and a very high screen-to-body ratio thanks to narrow bezels and a small U-shaped waterdrop notch. Some may prefer the Honor 10i due to its more catchy light waves on the rear side, but  I would personally go for the Huawei Nova 4e because it comes with a way thinner body. However, Huawei P Smart+ 2019 is far from being bad, especially because of its cleaner back cover thanks to the third module of the triple camera that is separated from the rest of the camera department, just like the Huawei P20 Pro.

Display

Given that Huawei P Smart+ 2019 is the only device to feature an LTPS panel, it should guarantee a slightly better display performance. However, it will be just a marginal difference. Huawei Nova 4e and Honor 10i should have exactly the same viewing quality. In each case, we are talking about more than sufficient panels. We do not suggest you base your choice on the display as the differences between the panel will never be so noticeable.

Hardware/Software

All of these devices are powered by the same SoC: the midrange-class Kirin 710 running at a max frequency of 2.2 GHz, that is more or less at the same level as the Snapdragon 660 by Qualcomm. So a very nice midrange chipset, but nothing more than that. Huawei Nova 4e wins the hardware comparison because it comes in a more powerful configuration with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. Honor 10i comes right after with its 4/128 GB configuration, while Huawei P Smart+ 2019 takes the last place as it is equipped with just 3 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.

Camera

The Honor 10i seems to boast the most performing camera department, but we will have to test it thoroughly in order to establish if it will really click better photos than the Huawei Nova 4e. It has a main 24 MP sensor, an ultrawide lens with an 8 MP resolution and a 2 MP depth sensor. It is able to record Full HD videos at 60 fps and it even comes with an amazing 32 MP selfie camera. Huawei Nova 4e does not differ so much: it has a lower resolution for the ultrawide lens, but it comes with gyro-EIS. Despite coming with the highest resolutions for the rear cameras, Huawei P Smart 2019 loses the camera comparison for its inferior 8 MP selfie camera.

Battery

There are minimal differences even in the battery capacity of these devices: 3340 mAh for the Huawei Nova 4e and 3400 mAh for Honor 10i and Huawei P Smart 2019. The software optimization will be decisive and we will know which phone is optimized in the best way only after testing all of them. For now, I would choose the Huawei Nova 4e despite its smaller capacity because it comes with a faster charging technology (18W).

Price

Huawei Nova 4e costs €270/$308 in China, Huawei P Smart 2019 costs €350/$400 in the global market, still no word on the pricing of the Honor 10i. At the end of the day, Huawei Nova 4e wins the comparison for its slightly better hardware, amazing cameras, thinner body, and a faster charging technology.

• Read More: Huawei Nova 4e with 6.2-inch display, triple rear cameras and 32MP front camera unveiled

Huawei Nova 4e vs Huawei Honor 10i vs Huawei P Smart+ 2019: PRO and CONS

Huawei Nova 4e

PROS

• Better hardware
• Amazing selfie camera
• Faster charging technology
• Sleek design

CONS

• Slightly smaller battery

Honor 10i

PROS

• Great selfie camera
• Good design
• Nice hardware
• 60 fps video recording

CONS

• Limited availability

Huawei P Smart 2019

PROS

• Nice display
• 60 fps video recording
• Nice rear cameras
• Wide availability

CONS

• Expensive

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The Honor 10i may or may not get a special launch event as the phone is sort of official in Russia already. The new mid-range phone is listed on Huawei’s Russian website with all you need to know about it save for the price.

The Honor 10i is covered in glass on both sides with the one on the rear curving to meet the frame in the middle. The front of the phone is home to a Dewdrop display with a moderately sized lower bezel and a notch at the top. The phone is available in three colors – Shimmer Red, Shimmer Blue, and Vicious Black – with the first two having a 3D color gradient effect that allows them to appear different depending on the angle you hold them.

In terms of specs, the Honor 10i doesn’t disappoint, at least for a mid-range phone from Honor. It has a 6.21-inch 2340 x 1080 display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio. Its screen is also certified as safe by TUV Rheinland. Under the glass hood of the phone is the Kirin 710 chipset paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable storage (512GB max.). There is also GPU Turbo 2.0 for improved gaming performance.

If you call the Honor 10i a camera-centric phone, we won’t disagree with you. It has a 32MP selfie camera that is housed inside the notch. The selfie camera has lots of face-adjustment features so your portrait selfies can turn out great. On the back of the phone lies the triple camera sensors – a 24MP f/1.8 primary camera, an 8MP f/2.4 ultra-wide angle secondary sensor, and a 2MP f/2.4 depth sensor. It can record slow-motion videos at 480fps, has AI scene detection, and can shoot long exposure nighttime photos without the need for a tripod.

The phone has dual-SIM support (nano only), dual-SIM VoLTE, and NFC. It runs EMUI 9.0.1 based on Android 9 Pie. There is a fingerprint scanner on the back and it also has support for Face Unlock. The Honor 10i has a 3,400mAh battery which charges via a MicroUSB port flanked by an audio jack and a speaker grille. Sorry, but no USB type-C on this one.

READ MORE: Honor 9i, Huawei Enjoy 8 Plus, and others will soon be updated to EMUI 9

The phone is listed as “coming soon” and will ship with an unspecified free gift. Its price is also unknown. Hopefully, pricing and availability will be revealed before the end of the week.

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The Honor 10 series might be getting a sibling soon as specifications and images of a new phone said to be the Honor 10i has surfaced online.

The Honor 10i adopts the design language of a lot of Huawei and Honor phones we have seen on the market in recent times. There is a Dewdrop notch at the top of the display and there are triple rear cameras on the back.

According to hi-tech, the source of the leak, the Honor 10i will have a 6.2-inch FHD+ IPS display. It will be powered by the Kirin 710 processor paired with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

For the cameras, the Honor 10i will come with a 24MP primary sensor paired with an 8MP sensor and a 2MP depth sensor. The selfie camera housed inside the notch is said to be a 32MP sensor!

There is no info on battery capacity but it is said to have NFC for mobile payments. It should also come with EMUI 9 based on Android Pie out of the box.

With respect to design, the Honor 10i in the images is blue with a reflective finish. There is a bit of bezel in front and those on the sides don’t appear to be super thin too. The rear cameras are arranged vertically and share the same housing and there is a fingerprint scanner on the back too.

READ MORE: Honor Magic 2 3D with 3D face unlock, graphene cooling and 512 GB storage launched in China

The Honor 9i launched in July last year but we won’t be surprised if its successor arrives a bit earlier. Also, as Honor is known to do, the Honor 10i may launch in other markets under a different name.

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Honor, the sub-brand of Huawei, is all set to launch a new budget smartphone in the European market. The phones, which the company is gearing up to launch, has an internal model number HRY-LX1T, which is the Honor 10i. The phone model has also passed through the EEC certification process.

Currently, there’s no information regarding the specifications of this upcoming smartphone except for the fact that it could be released in the European market very soon and it’ll be a budget device. While the naming suggests that it is the successor to the Honor 9i, it is likely to be a rebranded model of the Honor 10 Lite given that the internal codename of the Honor 10 Lite is HRY-LX1, which is eerily similar to the HRY-LX1T codename used for the Honor 10i.

Coming to the specifications, the Honor 10 Lite features a 6.21-inch IPS LCD Full HD+ display with screen resolution of 2280 x 1080 pixels and 19:9 aspect ratio and about 90 percent screen-to-body ratio. Under the hood, the device is powered by the company’s own Kirin 710 chipset. It is Huawei’s first 12nm chipset that is claimed to offer significant improvement in power consumption and performance compared to the 16nm Kirin 659.

The phone comes in two variants — 4GB RAM with 64GB of internal storage and 6GB RAM with 128GB of internal storage. There’s also a microSD card slot which enables you to further expand the phone’s storage capacity. The device also features a rear-mounted fingerprint sensor for added protection.

For photography, the device comes equipped with a dual camera setup on the back, featuring a 13-megapixel primary sensor and a 2-megapixel secondary sensor stacked vertically. It has several AI-based features, including scene recognition, partition optimization, among others. There’s also a 24-megapixel front camera with artificial intelligence technology.

Connectivity options on the device include Dual SIM, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS, Bluetooth v5.0 LE, and micro-USB 2.0 port. The phone runs Android 9 Pie operating system out of the box with the company’s own custom interface EMUI 9 on top.

Additionally, it also comes with GPU Turbo technology that enhances GPU performance significantly by increasing graphics processing efficiency up to 60 percent. The device is powered by a 3,400mAh battery which should be enough to last through the entire day on a single charge.

Read More: Honor 10 Lite with a 6.21-inch display, Kirin 710 SoC and dual rear cameras launched in India, pricing starts at Rs. 13,999 ($197)

Last month, the Honor 10 Lite was launched in the Indian market in two variants — 4GB RAM and 6GB RAM, with pricing starting from Rs. 13,999, which roughly converts to $197.

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Honor has a new phone coming and it just released a teaser poster for it. The image was shared on its Weibo page and from the text on it, the phone will belong to the Honor 10 series.

There are rumors the phone is the Honor 10 Lite which makes sense since the Honor 9 Lite was released in December 2017 and is already due for an upgrade. There are also others that are of the opinion that the phone is the Honor 10i but seeing as the Honor 9i was released back in July, it might be a bit early for a successor.

The image also shows the silhouette of a new brand ambassador which some have guessed to be Zhu Zhengting, a Chinese singer who also models and is an actor.

READ MORE: Honor sold over a million phones during India’s Diwali festive season sales, registers 300% growth

The Honor 10 Lite or Honor 10i will come with at least dual rear cameras, an 18:9 display or similar and the new Kirin 710 processor. It will likely run Android Oreo out of the box and be available in multiple RAM and storage variants.

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