Huawei’s Honor brand has announced that its new Honor 5C smartphones will now be available via open sale. The device was launched on June 22 and will be available in grey, gold, and silver colour variants from July 1 via Flipkart and the Honor Store. The device is powered by a Kirin 650 16nm chipset which the company claims to be faster as compared to 28nm chipsets. The phone also sports 13MP and 8MP cameras.
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Honor, the leading e-brand for digital natives which recently launched the much awaited Honor 5C made a successful sale of units in the flash sale commencement on Honor Store and Flipkart. Honor 5c, with the all new Kirin 650 was recently launched on the 22nd of June. This phone will be now available on Open sale in Grey, Gold and Silver on Flipkart and Honor Store from 1st of July 12.00 a.m. onwards. In line with its philosophy of “Dare to Perform” the Honor 5C promises enhanced performance, faster processing and optimum battery usage.
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Mr. P Sanjeev, Vice President Sales, Huawei India – Consumer Business Group said, “With the open sales kicking off in the Honor store and Flipkart today, we expect to see consumer response in abundance. We also observed an impressive response during the flash sales. Honor as a brand has always focused on offering quality devices and with the all new Kirin 650 incorporated in Honor 5c we hope to meet the demands of a variety of consumers.”
Honor 5C is a phone comes with a powerful Kirin 650 16 nm chipset. This 16 nm chipset offers lightning-fast performance compared with previous-generation 28 nm chipsets. The gaming experience becomes better with powerful Mali-T830 GPU which ensures seamless gaming experience with 100% increase in GPU performance compared with previous-generation Kirin 620. Honor 5C offers a smooth user experience thanks to rapid eMMC 5.1–based flash memory chip and all-new EMUI 4.1 OS. 74% screen-to-body ratio. The fingerprint Identification is 2.0 with 0.5 seconds unlocking speed and the display is 1920 x 1080 pixel (423 PPI), 16.7 million color, and full HD IPS display with improved color reproduction. The phone features 13 MP rear cameras and 8 MP front camera with BSI sensor with ten different beauty modes. SmartImage 3.0 image processor with a variety of creative filters and shooting modes: Light Painting mode gives you manual control of the shutter for long exposure shots, Professional mode provides a range of DSLR-style camera settings, and Document adjustment automatically crops and straightens images of documents. On the whole Honor 5C has aircraft-grade aluminum-alloy body and integrated speaker box with smart power amplifier and bottom-speaker design.
Honor would be providing its customers with regular software updates to ensure access to latest and most up-to-date product experience. Honor has a total of 150 service centers across India to serve the customer requirements. Honor has successfully garnered 40 million sales in the past one year, and it looks forward to reiterate its commitment to its consumers. In August last year, when the government and Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) urged the smartphone manufacturers to check feasibility of embedding such feature in the smartphone, Honor, became the first to respond to the request. The R&D Center in Bangalore innovated this functionality and today, Honor smartphones sold in the Indian market already come embedded with a SOS feature.