Honor, Huawei’s smartphone sub-brand, have released the Honor 10 Lite, a watered down version of the Honor 10 flagship and equally one of the most affordable Android 9 Pie smartphone at the moment.
On the outside, the Honor 10 Lite is bigger than its predecessor. The front-facing fingerprint sensor has been moved to the rear giving the display more real estate on the front as well as slimmer bezels. The device sports a 6.2-inch IPS LCD display with 83.1-inch screen-to-body ratio.
On the rear, there’s a dual camera setup consisting of the primary 13 MP lens with f/1.8 aperture plus a secondary 2MP depth sensing lens. Also, the camera arrangements have been modified to be aligned horizontally to each other. On the front, a 24MP camera with scene mode and facial unlock is on board for selfie duties and biometric authentication. This is the same camera used on the Honor 10.
Powering the new Honor 10 Lite is Huawei’s native Hisilicon Kirin 710 SoC. This is the same chipset used on the Honor 8X and it is based on the 12nm architecture. Coupled with 4GB (up to 6GB) of RAM and Mali-G51 MP4, the Octa-core CPU with a maximum clock speed of 2.2GHz will bring on operate decently; almost as fast as the standard Honor 10.
Per storage, users will be able to choose between variants with either 64GB or 128GB of built-in memory. Interestingly, unlike its predecessor, the Honor 10 Lite sports a hybrid micro SD card slot that permits storage expansion up to 512GB.
The Honor 10 Lite will run the Android 9 Pie out-of-the-box joining the Huawei Mate 20 duo as the earliest devices from Huawei to run the latest Google OS from the factory. The Honor 10 Lite will be available in plain White and Midnight Black colour options as well as Gradient Red and Gradient Blue and will be available in different variants with following configurations:
4GB + 64GB — approx $US 202
6GB + 64GB — approx $US 245
6GB + 128GB — approx $US 275
It these prices, this positions the Honor 10 Lite as the cheapest Android 9 Pie smartphone you can get at the moment.
