As expected, Huawei‘s sub-brand Honor launched its two new budget smartphones in the Indian market — Honor 7C and Honor 7A. The Honor 7C was originally launched in China in March while the Honor 7A was launched in China last month.

Both the smartphones — Honor 7A and Honor 7C are quite similar to each other, having minor differences in terms of display and the processor. While the Honor 7C features a 5.99-inch HD+ IPS LCD display, the Honor 7A sports 5.7-inch HD+ IPS LCD display. Both devices feature a full-screen display with 720 x 1440 pixels screen resolution and 18:9 aspect ratio.

Under the hood, the 7A is powered by Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon 430 octa-core processor coupled with 3GB RAM. There’s also a 2GB RAM variant of the phone, but the company has not launched it in India. On the other hand, the 7C is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 processor and comes in two models — 3GB RAM and 4GB RAM.

The phones come with 32GB of internal storage, except for the 4GB RAM variant of 7C, which packs 64GB storage. However, all models come with a dedicated microSD card slot, enabling users to further expand the phone’s storage capacity.

The Honor 7C and Honor 7A, both smartphone feature same cameras on the back as well as the front. There’s a dual camera setup on the back, consisting a 13-megapixel primary sensor and a 2-megapixel secondary sensor. On the front side, the devices bear an 8-megapixel camera with a f/2.2 aperture and a soft selfie light.

Connectivity options on both smartphones include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with hotspot, Bluetooth v4.2, GPS/ A-GPS, Micro-USB, and 3.5mm headphone jack. Further, both devices feature a fingerprint sensor on the back panel and come with Face Unlock feature to added security.

As of the software, both 7C and 7A run on EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 Oreo operating system out of the box and powered by the same 3,000mAh capacity battery.

In India, the Honor 7A is priced at Rs. 8,999 and will be available for purchase exclusively through online marketplace Flipkart from 29th May. On the other hand, the Honor 7C costs Rs. 9,999 for the 3GB RAM variant while the 4GB RAM model is priced at Rs. 11,999. It will be available exclusively through Amazon India from 31st May 31.

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Both the smartphones will be available in three color options — Black, Gold, and Blue. Apart from Flipkart and Amazon, both devices will also be available through the company’s official HiHonor online store.

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Honor, the sub-brand of Huawei which makes value for money smartphones, recently launched Honor 7C in China. Now, the company is gearing up to launch the smartphone in the Indian market. Honor India has sent out media invites for a launch event on May 22nd, where the company will introduce Honor 7C in India.

While the invite doesn’t clearly mention that the phone in question is the Honor 7C, the teaser image shows the design of the phone similar to the Honor 7C, featuring dual camera setup. Also, the user manual of both the Honor 7C and Honor 7A were recently uploaded on the Honor India website.

The smartphone was originally launched in China a couple of months ago. It adopts trending Full-Screen design with the 18:9 aspect ratio. The device also comes with a sleek design and dual rear cameras and the selfie shooter packs facial recognition feature and some smart features for better selfies.

The Honor 7C features a 5.99-inch TFT LCD IPS HD+ display with screen resolution of 1440 x 720 pixels. The device is powered by Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon 450 14nm octa-core chipset clocked at 1.8GHz, with integrated Adreno 506 GPU.

The device comes in two variants based on the memory configuration — 3GB RAM with 32GB internal storage and 4GB RAM with 64GB onboard storage. Further, there’s a microSD card slot on both variant, enabling users to further expand the phone’s storage capacity up to 256GB.

Coming to the camera, the smartphone sports a dual camera setup at the rear. Design-wise, the camera is located on the top left corner and is aligned horizontally with an LED flash on the inner edge. The rear cameras comprise a 13-megapixel sensor and a 2-megapixel sensor for depth-sensing. On the front side, there’s an 8-megapixel selfie shooter with the display acting as a smart soft light.

There’s a fingerprint sensor on the back of the phone. The smartphone runs on the latest EMUI 8.0 based on Android 8.0 Oreo operating system out of the box. The device also packs a 3,000mAh battery which the company says is optimized to provide longer battery life.

The device was launched in four color options — Red, Blue, Gold, and Black. In China, the 3GB RAM variant of the Honor 7C  is priced at 899 Yuan (~$142) while the 4GB RAM model costs 1,299 Yuan (~$205).

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In India, we are expecting the Honor 7C to be priced under Rs. 10,000, which will place it in direct competition with Xiaomi’s Redmi 5, which is priced at Rs. 7,999. However, we’ll have to wait till the official launch to know the pricing. Since Honor 7X is Amazon exclusive in India, we are expecting the Honor 7C to be Amazon exclusive as well.

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