After weeks of speculation and leaks, the beautiful Honor 5X with an all metal body has been finally unveiled. The phone will join the likes of other recently announced metal phones like Meizu Metal in the budget mid-range segment.

The Honor 5X comes with a 5.5-inch FHD display with Snapdragon 616 clocked at 1.7GHz and Adreno 405 GPU. There will be 16GB of storage with 2GB / 3GB RAM versions. You also have a MicroSD card slot to further expand the storage on board.

At the back, there will be a 13MP camera with 5MP front facing shooter. The battery is quite decent too, 3000mAh with fast charge 3.0 that promises up to 50% charging in 30 minutes. There’s a fingerprint sensor on board as well, at the back which is quite fast as it can recognize a fingerprint in just 0.4s. As for connectivity, there’s dual SIM card slots, both of which support 4G LTE networks.

Like most of Huawei’s Honor smartphones, the Honor 5X is quite competitive too as it starts at just $157 for the 2GB variant and around $220 for the 3GB variant.

The phone is definitely a looker with its shiny all metal body. It comes in gold, grey and silver shades. You can check out the images of the device from down below.

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Huawei announced the Honor 5X Play on October 10. However, the main launch of this month is going to be the Honor 5X with an all metal design. The phone is scheduled to be announced on October 27 and will reportedly revolutionize the sub-1000 Yuan market (appox. $157). Now, the same phone has been spotted in a video revealing most of the specifications and the design of the device.

Although the upcoming device bears the name Honor, the styling is quite different than the existing models in the range. First of all, the Honor 5X will come with an all metal body. Further, you can spot a fingerprint sensor at the back, which is not usually found on phones that cost less than $160.

As for the specs, the Honor 5X will reportedly come with a 5.5-inch FHD 1080p display with Snapdragon 615 octa-core chip under the hood. There should be 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage on board, but we feel there will be a 2GB RAM base variant as well. At the back, you can expect a 13MP camera while up front, there will be a 5MP shooter. The phone will reportedly run on Android 5.1.1 out of the box.

You can check out the video from down below.

Well, these are pretty good specs for a $157 smartphone and will further intensify the competition in the lower mid-range segment. We hope to get more information about the device in the coming days.

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A few hours back, we spotted the Huawei Honor 5X with the model number KIW-AL10 on TENAA. However, the certification website did not mention the specifications of the device. Now, according to a weibo screenshot image, the same model has just hit AnTuTu revealing its full specifications.

The Honor 5X model will reportedly come with Snapdragon 615 octa-core chip under the hood with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage on board. There will be Adreno 405 GPU. The display will be of 5.5-inches with Full HD 1920 x 1080p resolution. At the back, the phone will come with a 13MP camera while up front, you can expect a 5MP shooter. As for software, the leaked image shows that the Honor 5X will run on Android 5.1.12 Lollipop OS.

While these specs are quite good for a mid-range flagship, in the AnTuTu benchmark, the phone only managed to score 20K points. That’s extremely disappointing with these specs, but we expect the official benchmarks to be much higher than this figure.

According to the TENAA listing, the phone came with an all metal design, much like the Mate 7. You also have a similar fingerprint recognition sensor at the back. There should be at least a gold colored variant when the phone is launched. Its also confirmed that the phone will support full network connectivity in China.

You can expect a launch sometime in October 2015, since the previous generation model, Huawei 4X debuted at the same time last year.

Stay tuned for more details.

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