Honor 5C India Launch Expected On June 22: Specifications & Features

Updated on 16th June 2016

Honor has sent out media invites for an event scheduled on June 22 in India, where it is expected to launch its Honor 5C smartphone. The invite doesn’t reveal the name of the device which the company is going to launch and says- ‘Come and witness the Genesis of Innovation as Honor accelerates into next level of smart telephony’.

To recall, the Honor 5C was launched in China in April 2016. Read on to find details on specifications, features and price of Honor 5C smartphone.

Honor 5C Invite

Updated on 29th April 2016

Honor has launched its latest smartphone, called the Honor 5C, in China. It succeeds the Honor 4C which was launched last year in 2015.

As for specifications, the 5C is powered by an octa-core Kirin 650 processor paired with Mali-T830 GPU and 2GB of RAM. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system wrapped under Huawei EMUI 4.1. It comes with a 5.2-inch full HD IPS display with resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The phone houses 16GB of internal memory which can be further expanded up to 128GB using microSD card.

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On camera front, it sports a 13 mega pixel rear camera with LED flash and an 8 mega pixel front facing camera. Backed up by a 3000mAh battery, it measures 147.1×73.8×8.3 mm and weighs 156 grams. Connectivity options include 4G LTE with VoLTE, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS. It features full metal body design and comes with a fingerprint sensor that is said to unlock the device in 0.5 seconds.

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Specifications & Features Of Honor 5C

  • Processor: Octa-core Kirin 650
  • GPU: Mali-T830
  • Operating System: Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Huawei EMUI 4.1
  • Display: 5.2-inch Full HD IPS (1920×1080 pixels resolution)
  • RAM: 2GB
  • Storage: 16GB (expandable up to 128GB via microSD card)
  • Rear Camera: 13 mega pixel with LED flash,, f/2.0 aperture, 5P lens
  • Front Camera: 8 mega pixel with f/2.0 aperture, 4P lens
  • Battery: 3000mAh
  • Connectivity: 4G LTE with VoLTE, 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS
  • Dimensions: 147.1×73.8×8.3 mm
  • Weight: 156 grams
  • Fingerprint sensor

Price & Availability

The Honor 5C is priced at CNY 899 (approximately Rs. 9,200) for 3G variant and CNY 999 (approximately Rs. 10,300) for 4G variant. It is up for pre-orders in China and will go on sale starting May 5. There is no word about global roll out of the phone as of now.

The Honor 5C looks impressive on spec-sheet. If launched in India, it will compete with the likes of Redmi Note 3 and Letv Le 1s.

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