Huawei’s Honor sub-brand has always prided itself as an online only brand. However, that has changed as they have now opened a brick and mortar store in Myanmar.The Myanmar Honor Store is its first international walk-in store.

CEO of Honor, George Zhao, who was at the official opening said the store opening is an important milestone for the brand in the Southeast Asian Market. He also announced four new Honor smartphones in the country. They are the Honor 7X, Honor V9 Play/Honor 6C Pro, Honor 6X, and Honor Play 6.

You may be wondering why none of the high-end Honor phones weren’t announced. The explanation provided is that Myanmar is still a developing smartphone market in Southeast Asia and average income is not high, so high-priced Honor phones won’t do well.

It is not surprising that Honor is including an offline presence into its plans. While millennials generally do their shopping online, regular brick and mortar stores are also pretty important for a hands-on experience with devices as well as after-sales services. Xiaomi is one brand that has also moved from being an online-only store to setting up brick and mortar stores.

The new Honor store will not only sell devices and provide after-sales services but will also serve as a hangout spot for young Honor fans.

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Honor plans to open more stores across the world as it moves towards its goal of being one of the world’s top five mobile brands by 2020. It also plans to grow its presence in markets like France, Spain, Italy, and Russia.

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The Honor 6C smartphone was unveiled in April 2017 and the company has now announced its upgraded version called Honor 6C Pro in Russia. The specifications of the smartphone suggest that it is a rebranded Honor V9 Play smartphone was unveiled in the previous month in China. The Honor 6C Pro is still not listed on the official site for Europe, but the Honor France Twitter has revealed the details of the phone.

The Honor 6C Pro has a 5.2-inch display that produces an HD resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels. There are no physical buttons present below the display as it features on-screen buttons.

The smartphone is driven by MediaTek MT6750 chipset. The SoC is coupled by 3 GB of RAM. The native storage available on the smartphone is 32 GB. It also features a microSD card slot. The handset includes a 3,000mAh battery.

On the rear side of the Honor 6C Pro is a 13-megapixel camera and a fingerprint scanner. The frontside features a selfie snapper of 8-megapixel. The handset is preloaded with Android 7.0 Nougat and customized with Emotion UI 5.1.

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The entire body of the Honor 6C Pro is made up of metal. It measures 147.9 x 73.2 x 7.65mm and weights 145 grams. The bottom side of the phone features a USB-C port along with the speaker grills.

The official pricing of the Honor 6C Pro is not known yet. In Europe, it is expected to carry a price tag of 179 euros (~$212).

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The Honor V9 Play is a more affordable version of the Honor V9 (Honor 8 Pro) flagship released back in February. Although it has ditched most of the features of its bigger sibling such as the 2K display, dual rear cameras, large RAM and built-in storage. The Honor V9 Play comes in the same cool colors as the V9.

Honor V9 Play Design

The Honor V9 Play features an all-metal design like the V9 but at first look, you can tell there is a difference in the craftsmanship. The design is the same you will find on similar devices in this price range.

Buttons are on the right, SIM tray is on the left and there are speaker grilles flanking the micro USB port at the bottom.

Honor V9 Play Specs

The Honor V9 Play has a 5.2-inch HD display. It comes in 3GB and 4GB RAM variants with 32GB of expandable storage, and is powered by the MT6750 processor.

There is a 13MP f/2.2 aperture and 1.12um pixel sensor on the back. On its left is a LED flash and below it is a fingerprint scanner that unlocks in 0.4s. The front camera is an 8MP sensor.

The V9 Play has a hybrid dual SIM slot (nano only, 128GB Max.). There is a 3000mAh battery that charges via a micro USB port at the bottom. There is a 3.5mm audio jack at the top, Bluetooth 4.1, VoLTE and a FM radio.

The phone will come with EMUI 5.1 based on Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box.

Honor V9 Price and Availability

The Honor V9 Play will sell for ¥999 (∼$153) for the 3GB RAM variant and ¥1199 (∼$184) for the 4GB RAM variant. It will be available in red, blue, champagne gold, and rose gold when it goes on sale on September 12.

Honor 6 Play

Right on the heels of the V9 Play is the Honor 6 Play. The 6 Play is targeted at the entry-level category and seems like a competition for the unannounced Redmi 5A.

The phone doesn’t have the same metal body design as the V9 Play. Instead it sports a polycarbonate body with a unique hatching design.

It has a 5.0-inch HD display, a MT6737T SoC, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable storage. There is an 8MP camera with dual LED flash on the back and a 5MP front facing camera with its own LED flash.

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The Honor 6 Play packs a 3020mAh battery, runs EMUI 4.1 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and has dual SIM slot support.

It will go on sale today for just ¥599 (∼$92) and will be available in white and gold.

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The Honor V9 was released with flagship specifications earlier this year. The company has now confirmed that it will be launching the Honor V9 Play on September 6. Rumors suggest that it could be a youth version of the Honor V9 smartphone that will be packed with toned-down specs.

Huawei’s subsidiary Honor has released an image on Weibo to confirm the arrival of Honor V9 Play in the coming month on the last day of the IFA 2017 tech trade show. However, the event will be held in China and it seems that the smartphone would be initially available in the same country. Just as the Honor 8 Youth Edition was launched as the lower-end version of the Honor 8. The Honor V9 Play is also expected to come with modest specs.

It appears that the Honor V9 Play has already paid a visit to TENAA, the certifying body for telecommunication devices in China. The TENAA listing has revealed the images of the smartphone. The images suggest that it may sport a different design when compared to the Honor V9 smartphone.

Unlike the Honor V9 that features dual rear cameras, the Honor V9 Play is likely to come with a single rear camera. TENAA has revealed that the smartphone may sport a 12-megapixel rear snapper. The images suggest that it may houses a metallic rear with top and bottom portions made up of plastic. The rear side of the smartphone also features a fingerprint reader.

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Since it will be a mid-range smartphone, it will be powered by Kirin 659 chipset that will be accompanied by 4 GB of RAM. It is expected to debut with a pricing of 1,499 Yuan (~$227). Honor 7X and Honor 6C (2017) are some of the upcoming smartphones that are speculated to arrive as competitors for the Xiaomi Mi 5X and Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A.

The Honor V9 has a 5.7-inch Quad HD display and is powered by Kirin 960 chipset. In China, it comes with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of RAM. In other markets, it is sold as Honor 8 Pro and it comes in 64 GB storage and 4 GB / 6 GB RAM options. It is fitted with a dual rear camera system that includes a pair of 12-megapixel sensors. It has a selfie camera of 8-megapixel. The phablet houses a large battery of 4,000mAh capacity

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