Huawei 's sub-brand Honor first introduced the mid-range Honor 6X smartphone to the world in October last year and made the smartphone available in China later. It seems that the company took advantage of the media exposure provided by CES 2017 and announced that it will make the Honor 6X available in the US and Europe .
The affordable mid-range smartphone, Honor 6X will be sold in Europe for $249.99 for the 3GB RAM variant. Pre-orders will start on January 4th, while sales will start on January 15th, according to XDA Developers.
The device will go on sale in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia and other European markets on January 4th and will cost €249.
The Honor 6X also comes with 4GB of RAM and will be available in the first quarter of 2017 for $299.99. The smartphone is priced at $237 in China, making it one of the most affordable devices with quite powerful specs.
The Honor 6X has a metal frame with a 5.5-inch FHD LCD display and is powered by an octa-core Kirin 655 SoC. The processor contains 4 cores clocked at 2.1GHz and 4 cores clocked at 1.7GHz, coupled with a Mali T830-MP2 graphics processing unit.
It comes in three configurations, one with 1GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, and the other two with 4GB of RAM and 32GB and 64GB of storage. It also supports microSD cards and comes with a 3,340mAh battery with fast charging. The smartphone runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The dual-lens camera setup on the back is one of the most important selling points, considering it has a 12MP primary camera and a 2MP secondary one.
