It was officially announced by Honor, Huawei’s sub-brand, that they will give out an OTA, over-the-air, update for the Honor 7X. This update will make the face unlock feature possible for the device.
- Honor 9 Lite in the UK will come with free Bluetooth earphones
- All future Honor phones to come with FullView display
The first two Honor smartphones to receive the face unlock feature was the Honor View 10 and the Honor 9 Lite thus making the Honor 7X the third Honor phone to include the feature. According to a statement made by the company, the update will be completed in the middle of March. Furthermore, P Sanjeev, Vice-President of Sales in Huawei Consumer Business Group, mentioned that the ‘Face Unlock’ intelligent feature is usually available in flagship-level smartphones but Honor has introduced this feature in the coveted Honor 7X.
Honor 7X contains a 5.93-inch Full-HD+ IPS display with screen resolution of 1080 x 2160 pixels. The handset also features a HiSilicon Kirin 659 octa-core chipset with four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2.36GHz and 4 Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.7GHz. It will run on EMUI 5.1 with 4GB of RAM and will come in either 32GB or 64GB storage.
Huawei Honor 7X Full Specs
- Display: 5.93 inches LTPS IPS LCD 1080 x 2160 pixels, 18:9 ratio
- Size: 156.5 x 75.3 x 7.6 mm, 165 g
- Colors: Black, Blue, Gold
- Chipset: HiSilicon Kirin 659
- GPU: Mali-T830 MP2
- Processor: Octa-core (4×2.36 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4×1.7 GHz Cortex-A53)
- OS: Android 7.0 Nougat with EMUI 5.1
- RAM: 32/64/128 GB, 4 GB RAM, microSD, up to 256 GB
- Camera: Dual 16 MP + 2 MP, phase detection autofocus, LED flash
- Features: 1/2.9″ sensor size, 1.25 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
- Multimedia: 1080p@30fps
- Selfie: 8 MP, 1080p
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, hotspot, Bluetooth 4.2, A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
- Ports: micro USB 2.0, 3.5mm headphone jack
- Security: Fingerprint scanner
- Battery: Non-removable Li-Ion 3340 mAh battery