Honor had launched the Honor Play 3 smartphone in China on Sept. 4. At the time, the company had introduced the phone in color editions like Black, Flame Red and Aurora Blue. Except for Aurora Blue, the other two variants have been available for purchase in the home market. Starting from today, the company has also started selling the Honor Play 3 Aurora Blue edition.

The Aurora Blue has an attractive appeal as it is color gradient edition that offers a mix of turquoise and blue. However, the USP of the smartphone is that offers a punch-hole display experience at an attractive starting price of 999 Yuan (~$140) for the 4 GB RAM + 64 GB storage variant. The 4 GB RAM + 128 GB storage model is priced at 1,299 Yuan (~$162) and its 6 GB RAM + 64 GB storage model also carries the same price tag.

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Honor Play 3 Specifications and Features

The Honor Play 3 has a 6.39-inch display that offers HD= resolution of 720 x 1560 pixels. The punch-hole display of the phone allows it to offer users with 90 percent screen space. The Kirin 710F chipset powers the smartphone. It is loaded with EMUI 9.1 based Android 9 Pie OS. The GPU Turbo 2.0 tech is available on the device for accelerated GPU performance while playing games on the device. It features a microSD card slot for additional storage.

The rear shell of the phone features a triple camera system. It consists a primary lens of 48-megapixel, a wide-angle lens of 8-megapixel and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. It has a front-facing camera of 8-mgeapixel. The 4,000mAh battery of the phone supports 10W charging. The handset lacks a fingerprint reader. Hence, the sole biometric recognition feature available on the smartphone is face recognition. Apart from the Honor Play 3, the Chinese manufacturer is also selling the more affordable Honor Play 3e smartphone in China.

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Honor updated its budget lineup with a new model today, the Honor Play3. The phone isn’t the successor to the original Honor Play which was the brand’s first gaming-centric smartphone. Instead, the Play3 focuses on bringing decent specs, good built, and a workable camera under $150.

We have already covered the specifications of the Honor Play3 in detail in our launch article. So here, let’s focus on Honor Play3’s pricing and availability in China.

The Honor Play3 will come in three variants in China, start at 999 Yuan.

• 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM – 999 Yuan ($140)
• 4GB RAM + 128GB ROM – 1299 Yuan ($181)
• 6GB RAM + 64GB ROM  – 1299 Yuan ($181)

Unlike the Honor 20S which is already on sale, the Honor Play3 will only go on sale next week on September 10 at 10:08 AM CST. There will be three colors available for purchase, Black, Blue, and Red.

The Honor Play3 is powered by the Kirin 710F chipset made for entry-level smartphones. The phone packs a 48MP camera at the back with two other lenses, an 8MP wide-angle lens and a 2MP lens for portrait. You also get a large 4000mAh battery on board with a 10W charger.

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Huawei today unveiled the much-anticipated Kirin 810-powered Honor 20s in China and alongside the premium device came another amazing model – the Honor Play 3. The device is basically a budget model, looking at the 999 yuan (~$139) starting price. However, the phone has a solid build and decent specs lineup.

The Honor Play 3 packs a glamorous 6.39-inch full-screen display with a punch-hole at the top left corner which houses the selfie camera. The use of a punch-hole design ensures the bezels are trimmed to the barest minimum with the device getting up to 90% screen ratio. The rear panel uses a unique starlight rhythmic texture, such as the streamer that the meteor draws in the night sky.

The phone is powered by an Hisilicon Kirin 710F chipset paired up with 4GB/6GB of RAM. The phone comes with 64GB and 128GB storage options. There is also a 4000mAh battery on board with support for 10W fast charger. For photography, the Honor Play 3 packs a 48MP main camera teaming up with an 8MP wide-angle sensor and a 2MP depth of field sensor.

The phone runs EMUI 9.1 based on Android 9.0 Oreo and has dual SIM slots. The device prides itself as the first budget Huawei model to pack its GPU Turbo 2.0 “full scene acceleration engine”. The Play 3 is also the first model in the thousand yuan category that supports Ark compiler, EROFS super file system, Link Turbo, AI smart communication and many other self-developed flagship technologies.

In terms of price, the 4GB+64GB version is priced at 999 yuan ($139), the 4GB+128GB version is priced at 1299 yuan ($181), and the 6GB+64GB version is also priced at 1299 yuan ($181). The device comes in Aurora Blue, Flame Red, and Black and is expected to go on sale on September 10 at 10 AM.

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Honor will be announcing the Honor 20S smartphone in China. It appears that it won’t be the only Honor phone that will go official today. Through Weibo, the Chinese firm has confirmed that it will be unleashing the Honor Play 3 series today at 7 PM (local time) in China.

Honor has not released any details on the Honor Play 3 series. However, the rumor mill is speculating that one of the phones in the new series could be Honor Play 3i phone. The series could also include a successor for the Kirin 970 Honor Play gaming-centric smartphone. However, there is no information available on the smartphone yet. Coming back to Honor Play 3i, it could be the ASK-AL00x / TL00x phone that was spotted with full specifications on TENAA.

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The Honor ASK-AL00 / TL00 smartphone houses a 6.39-inch display with punch-hole design. It supports HD+ resolution of 720 x 1560 pixels. The handset is equipped with a 4,000mAh battery. The 3C listing of the phone has revealed that it will carry support for 10W charging. It is powered by 2.2 GHz octa-core processor which is believed to be the Kirin 710 chipset. The handset may release in 4 GB and 6 GB RAM editions and storage options like 64 GB and 128 GB.

The rear shell of the phone has 48-megapixel + 8-mgeapixel + 2-megapixel triple camera system. It may feature a front-facing camera of 8-megapixel. There is no fingerprint scanner on the device. It runs on Android 9 Pie OS.

Honor has another unreleased smartphone with model number KSA-AL10 waiting in pipeline to go official. It has a 5.71-inch display with waterdrop notch that carries support for HD+ resolution of 720 x 1520 pixels. It houses a minimum capacity battery of 2,920mAh. The smartphone is powered by 2.0 GHz octa-core processor.

The smartphone may release in RAM choices of 2 GB and 3 GB and storage models like 32 GB and 64 GB. It may sport a 13-megapixel rear camera and a frontal shooter of 5-megapixel. It also lacks a fingerprint sensor and is loaded with Android 9 Pie OS.

The Honor 20S that will be unleashed today will be a new variant of the Honor 20 flagship phone that features a quad camera system. The major difference on the Honor 20S is that it is equipped with triple rear cameras.

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The first-generation Honor Play smartphone was an important device for the company. It was the first gaming flagship from Honor and came with technologies such as GPU Turbo and 4D gaming at a very attractive price tag. While we haven’t heard much about its successor, it looks like Honor could skip a generation to call it the Honor Play 3.

Recently, an alleged box of the Honor Play 3 was spotted in China and shared on Weibo. Seeing this box, it is being speculated that the company has decided to name it the Play 3. Unfortunately, we aren’t really sure of its authenticity. The alignment of the words Play 3 seems a bit off. However, even if this leak isn’t real, there’s a good possibility that we might see Play’s successor at the September 4 Honor 20S event.

Honor’s Zhao Ming has already confirmed that we’ll meet one more device alongside the Honor 20S at the event. The Honor Play was announced back in July 2018, which means a successor to the device is already past due.

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As for the Honor 20S, it is said to feature Kirin 810 chipset with 3750mAh battery, 6GB /8GB RAM and a 6.26-inch display. While the phone should offer tremendous value for its price, it remains to be seen how the trade ban will affect the new Honor devices outside of China. Huawei is already said to delay the international release of the Mate 30 Pro since it doesn’t have a license from Google to install its apps.

But it’s worth adding that while Google apps won’t come pre-installed on Mate 30 series models, users can always download and install these apps once they get the phone.

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