Honor Celebrates its 2nd Anniversary in India With the Launch of Flagship Honor 8 and Takes the Legacy of Dual Camera Further

NEW DELHI, October 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

- Launches Honor 8 Smart and Honor Holly 3 Along with Honor 8   

- Honor 8 Available Through a Strong Offline Distribution Network; Also Exclusively Available Online on Flipkart, Amazon and Honor Store  

Honor, Huawei's smartphone e-brand for digital natives, today, launched its latest flagship Honor 8 along with two other smartphones, Honor 8 Smart and its first 'Make in India' phone Honor Holly 3. Since the entry into the market two years ago, Honor has experienced extraordinary growth by focusing on the online market and giving digital natives the type of devices that fit their lifestyle. Responding to this consumer loyalty and feedback, Honor has expanded its offering with Honor 8 Smart and its first 'Make in India' phone Honor Holly 3. Honor announced that the Honor 8 would be available in the Sapphire Blue along with Pearl White and Sunrise Gold colors at a retail price of Rs. 29,999 giving a stiff competition in the segment; The Honor 8 will come with 2 years warranty and a touch screen replacement guarantee in the first three months.

While Honor 8 Smart is available in black, white and gold colors, it will be priced at Rs. 19,999. Furthermore, Honor Holly 3 also available in black, white and gold colors would be available at an attractive price of Rs. 9,999. The Honor 8 will be exclusively available online at Flipkart and Amazon along with the Honor store and other offline stores from 3.00pm onwards, while the other two will follow soon.

Speaking at the launch, Mr. George Zhao, President, Honor said "We recently celebrated the second anniversary of Honor in India. Honor has received an incredible amount of love and support for all of our products starting with Honor 6 in 2014 and is excited to launch three new offerings to our customers. These three smartphones include - Honor 8, a sleek and elegant smartphone that boasts of our dual lens camera legacy; the Honor 8 Smart and we proudly announce our first 'Make in India'; smartphone Honor Holly 3 coming from our Chennai plant. With this launch, we continue our India journey and promise to introduce even more high-quality, disruptive products in the market."

Honor 8  

The Honor 8 features high construction, inspired design, and next-generation technology giving speed, and connectivity for today's young millennial consumers. Taking the legacy of its predecessor, the Honor 8's 12MP dual-lens camera comprises of a RGB and a monochrome lens that captures more light to deliver amazing picture quality, vivid color, and stunning detail. Additionally it has an 8MP front camera that works well even in low light for all the selfie fans. A sleek and elegant smartphone with its double-sided glass design with a first from Honor - a Sapphire Blue colour, the Honor 8 runs Android™ 6.0 and Huawei's Emotion UI 4.1. The smartphone is powered by a 16 nanometer Kirin 950 chip that reduces power consumption and enhances overall performance. Featuring a 3000mAh battery, the smartphone has a 4GB RAM and external memory support up to 128GB. 

For a heightened functionality, Honor 8's dual-function advanced fingerprint reader redefines the 3D fingerprint scanning. The level 4 fingerprint acquisition algorithm delivers enhanced security, and smart features like fingerprint reader to make payments, take photos, record video, receive phone calls, or turn off an alarm or unlock its Smart Key button functions, customizable for instant access to features and apps along with an instant phone unlock. It also allows the users to take partial or full screenshots with a tap of their knuckle and similar other features through its enhanced knuckle feature.

Honor 8 Smart  

Honor 8 Smart is a 5.2 inch, aircraft grand aluminium alloy framed compact smartphone. Using the brand-new 13 million pixel stack sensor camera of SONY IMX214, Honor 8 Smart's 13MP camera can superbly capture scene light, high light sensitivity, providing good effect of dim light, accuracy of color reduction and less noise during night shots, which ensure pictures of higher quality and brighter color. It also houses an 8MP front camera for takings selfies even in dark environments. It is equipped with a long battery life with 3000mAh battery combined with the energy-efficient design of the excellent Kirin650 chipset and the brand-new smart electricity technology of EMUI4.1.

Honor Holly 3  

Reaffirming its commitment to the market, the Honor Holly 3 will be the company's first 'Make in India' smartphone. The 5.5 inch smartphone equipped with a 3100mAh battery for longer life. The Honor Holly 3 designed with a luxurious 3D back cover comes equipped with a 13MP rear and 8MP front camera for faithful color representation.

Honor would be providing its customers with regular software updates to ensure access to latest and most up-to-date product experience. Underlining its customer-centric approach, Huawei Consumer Business Group will also expand its distribution network by partnering with more than 50,000 retail outlets by the end of 2016. This retail network will add to the existing 350+ distributors in India to create a comprehensive, nationwide distribution system. Huawei, over the years, has established global appreciation for its products, both under the Huawei and Honor brands.

About Honor:  

Honor is Huawei's smartphone e-brand, which is also the world's leading smartphone e-brand. The target consumers of Honor are the digital native generation, a group that live on the Internet, spending more than one-third of their time online for social media and entertainment, shopping, studying or simply staying connected. Honor customers are young, vibrant and driven by passion. The Honor brand has clocked sales of over 20 million Honor phones in 2014, accounting for a global revenue of about 2.4 billion USD with a 24 times increase and closed 2015 with 6 billion global sales. Honor has been expanding aggressively in global markets, and has successfully launched in 74 global markets, entering the bestselling charts in most of the European countries Honor launched. Accordingly, Honor obtains a huge user base which has yielded powerful mouth-spreading asset. Honor products also enjoy global aesthetics, super processing technology and massive patent support. The three basic characteristics of Honor products are: best signals, long battery life and remarkable quality. Honor is born for ultimate tech innovation.

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