Honor 9 Lite First Impressions, Honor 9 Lite first glimpse…

With the aim of providing the best phones at affordable prices, Huawei’s Honor brand has launched the new smartphone Honor 9 Lite in India. The new Honor 9 Lite handset is available for less than Rs 15,000. Today, Xiaomi dominates this price range. It is worth noting that the company had also launched Honor 7X (Review) at around the same price. If seen, in true sense this phone is an upgrade of Honor 8 Lite which was launched in May last year. The most important feature of 9 Lite is the four cameras given in it, like Honor 9i. We got a chance to spend some time with the Honor 9 Lite. Let us tell you how we liked this phone at first glance?
We liked one thing the most and you will also like it, the body of the phone is very compact. It is also light, weighing only 149 grams this phone will get lost in your pocket. Many times we realized its absence. The reflective backpanel is quite nice and reminded us of the Moto X4. However, the edges are made of plastic. Talking about the shortcomings, fingerprints easily fall on the back part. In such a situation, it will not be easy to keep this phone clean. It also slips in the hands many times. There is not much problem in holding the phone in hands, but it slips easily.

Honor has used 18:9 display for this model. You will get a 5.65-inch screen with full-HD+ resolution. Its pixel density is 428 pixels per inch. The first thing that caught our attention is that the brightness of the screen is sufficient. The colors are punchy and there are no complaints with the viewing angle. The edges on the top and bottom of the screen are very thin, which gives a great look to the phone. Sadly, you won’t get a USB Type-C port. It seems that Honor is making this port a part of high-end handsets only.

Most of the specifications of Honor 9 Lite are the same as other budget smartphones of the company. You will get Huawei’s Kirin 659 processor. Based on RAM and storage, this phone has two variants – 3 GB/32 GB and 4 GB/64 GB. Storage can also be increased. VoLTE support is also available in the phone along with 4G. Due to the smaller screen the battery has also become smaller. You will get a 3000 mAh battery, but Honor has claimed that the 9 Lite will give you all day battery life.

Now let’s talk about the most important feature of this phone. Honor has given 2 megapixel depth sensors in Jugalbandi along with 13 megapixel sensors on the front and rear panels. That means you will be able to enjoy the Bokeh effect from front or rear camera setup. The rear camera is also equipped with phase detection auto focus for faster focusing. But this is a claim, it will be examined only during the review. The Honor 9 Lite smartphone runs on Honor’s custom skin EMUI 8.0 which is based on Android 8.0 Oreo.

Honor 7X and Honor 9i are good smartphones, but both the phones disappointed in camera and battery performance. In such a situation, it will be very interesting to see how well the battery of Honor 9 Lite holds up, because its capacity is also less. According to the marketing, four cameras will definitely grab your attention, but it is not a guarantee of great photos. Despite this, we hope that Honor has made improvements compared to its old product and the performance will also be better. We will come soon with the review of Honor 9 Lite.