Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Honor 9X has officially made its way to the Indian market today. Priced at Rs 13,999, the Honor 9X offers 48MP triple camera setup, full-screen display with a pop-up camera, up to 6GB of RAM & 128GB of internal storage. The Honor 9X is pretty much late to the party as there are several good options available in the market like Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, Realme 5 Pro and even the Redmi Note 7 Pro offers better processing power. The major drawback for Honor 9X is the Kirin 710F chipset which is on-par with the Snapdragon 665 chipset from Qualcomm. The Honor 9X comes in two variants- 4GB+128GB and 6GB+128GB, priced starting at Rs 13,999. Honor is also providing Rs 1,000 discount on the base variant during the festive season.

Honor 9X: Specifications and Features
The Honor 9X is the first smartphone from Honor after nearly seven months; To recall, the Honor 20 series was the last phones from the Huawei sub-brand to debut in India back in India in June 2019. Moving onto the specs, the Honor 9X flaunts a 6.59-inch Full HD+ IPS LCD display on the front. According to Honor, the smartphone offers 91% screen-to-body ratio and the screen resolution is 2340 x 1080 pixels. There’s also a pop-up selfie camera on the front which adds up to the full-screen experience. The Honor 9X comes in two colour options- Sapphire Blue and Midnight Black.
Underneath, the Honor 9X has the HiSilicon Kirin 710F chipset, paired with 4GB/6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. There’s a microSD card slot as well for storage expansion up to 512GB. The chipset is the major drawback for the Honor 9X; The Chinese company should’ve at least gone with the Kirin 810 chipset to compete with the likes of Redmi Note 8 Pro and Realme 5 Pro smartphones. The Kirin 710F is built on top of 12nm manufacturing process and the GPU used on the smartphone is Mali-G51 MP4.