Huawei has just announced the Honor 5A smartphone, its budget smartphone running the Android OS. The Honor 5A is the successor to 4A, and it comes with a 5.5-inch HD display and it runs on the company’s own Kirin chipset or a variant that runs a Snapdragon chipset.
The highlight of the phone is its connectivity, as the phone has 4G LTE connectivity with the VoLTE feature that helps in HD calling taking advantage of the 4G networks. Also, there is no compromise on the other specifications as well.
The Huawei Honor 5A has a 5.5-inch HD display (1280 x 720 pixels) with tempered glass protection, 178-degree viewing angle and under the hood is the 1.2 GHz Octa-Core Kirin 620 processor with Mali 450 GPU, but a variant also has an octa-core 1.5GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 processor with Adreno 405 GPU, and the common feature among both is 2GB of RAM and 16GB internal memory, with a MicroSD card slot for storage expansion.
The Dual SIM smartphone runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with the Emotion UI 4.1. The camera combination is a good one, with the Honor 5A having a 13-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, 28mm wide-angle lens, and on the front is an 8-megapixel shooter with Sony/Hynix BSI sensor, f/2.0 aperture, 27mm wide-angle 4P lens.
The design is not new from Huawei as we see a 3D pattern on the back. The connectivity options on the device are Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and 4G LTE with VoLTE support. The phone has a 3100 mAh battery.
The phone is announced for now in China, with the color options of black, white, blue and gold and the price is set at 699 yuan (equivalent to Rs. 7200) while a variant with China Unicom, China Telecom costs 799 yuan (about Rs. 8200).