Huawei's new $300 Honor 8 smartphone comes with dual Sony IMX286 cameras

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During a launch event today, Huawei showed off a new budget friendly smartphone under their Honor brand. The Honor 8 is in a lot of ways like Huawei's flagship Huawei P9 from earlier this year. The mid-range smartphone comes with some compelling features like a dual 2.5D glass design similar to that of the Galaxy S7 and it also comes in a range of attractive colors.

Huawei Honor 8 Key Specifications

— 5.2-inch 1080P display

— HiSilicon Kirin 950 SoC @ 2.3GHz

— 3/4GB LPDDR4 RAM

— 32/64GB expandable memory

— Dual 12MP f2.2 rear camera

— 8MP front camera

— Android 6.0 Marshamllow with EMUI 4.1

— 3,150mAh battery

— 145.5 x 71 x 7.45mm

— 153g

— Dual SIM LTE

— Blue, White, Black, Gold, Pink

But the highlight of the show has got to be the back of the device which not only features a fingerprint scanner but also features a dual camera setup that is similar to the setup on the Huawei P9. The sensors themselves (Sony IMX286) are 12MP and one of them is a RGB sensor and the other is a black and white sensor.

At launch, the Huawei Honor 8 will only be available in China. There will be three variants of the Huawei Honor 8 namely, the 32GB/3GB RAM model which costs CN¥ 1,999 (~US$ 299 / ~MYR 1,190), the 32GB/4GB RAM model which costs CN¥ 2,299 (~US$ 340 / ~MYR 1,370) and the top of the line 64GB/4GB RAM model that costs CN¥ 2,499 (~US$ 370 / ~MYR 1,490).

Learn more about the Huawei Honor 8 here