Honor 10 Lite with 6.21-inch FHD+ display and Kirin 710 SoC to reportedly launch in India in mid-January

The Honor 10 Youth Edition smartphone, which was launched in China back in November 2018 is all set to launch in India as the Honor 10 Lite. According to IANS, the smartphone could launch in the country around mid-January. However, the exact date of the launch is not known at the moment. For the uninitiated, the Honor 10 Lite is a successor to the popular budget-centric smartphone, the Honor 9 Lite (review). 

Honor 10 Lite price, availability 

The Honor 10 Lite retails for RMB 1,399 (~Rs 14,400) for the 4GB RAM + 64GB inbuilt storage variant and RMB 1,699 (~Rs 17,500) for Rs 6GB RAM + 64GB storage model in China. The top-end 6GB + 128GB version costs RMB 1,899 (~Rs 19,500). While the report doesn’t reveal Indian pricing, we can expect it to be in the same range. It also remains to be seen if the brand brings all the variants to the Indian market. The phone is being offered in Gradient Blue, Gradient Red, Lily Valley White, and Magic Night Black hues. 

Honor 10 Lite specifications, features 

The Honor 10 Lite flaunts a 6.21-inch display with a Full HD+ resolution (2,340 x 1,080 pixels) and a tiny cutout up top to house the selfie camera and sensors. Driving the performance of the handset is an octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 710 chipset (four 2.2GHz Cortex A73 cores + four 1.7GHz Cortex A53 cores). The onboard storage of the phone can be expanded up to 512GB using a microSD card. As for the imaging, the device comes with a 13-megapixel main sensor backed by a 2-megapixel secondary shooter for depth effect. For selfies, the phone offers a 24-megapixel sensor on the front. 

In the software department, the 10 Lite boots Android Pie-based EMUI 9.0 out of the box and is powered by a 3,320mAh battery. In terms of connectivity, the smartphone offers dual-SIM capabilities, 4G LTE support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, GPS, and a micro-USB port. 

With inputs from IANS