Huawei’s Honor brand launched the Honor 6X smartphone in October but it was not available in EU and USA except some third party retailers listing it on their website. Today’ at CES 2017 event, Huawei finally announced their plans to rollout the phone in the US and EU markets. The Honor 6X will be available to order in the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the Czech Republic, India, Russia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE starting today. The global variant will be available in EU starting January 10 via Vmall and Amazon UK.
The Honor 6X will be priced at €249 in EU markets and in the UK it will be priced at £224.99. The 4GB RAM + 64GB inbuilt storage option will be available in the EU by the end of March and will be priced at €299. In the US, Honor 6X will be available for $249.99 and will be available exclusively on HiHonor, Amazon, BestBuy, and Newegg retailers online. The 4GB RAM + 64GB inbuilt storage variant is expected to be available by the end of March priced at $299.99. The company will also organize some flash sales where the Honor 6X will be available in limited quantities for $199.99 starting this January 10 and then on January 17, 24, and 31 at noon via HiHonor.com.
The Honor 6X was launched in October with features such as a 5.5-inch full-HD 2.5D curved glass IPS display with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution and is powered by a octa-core Kirin 655 ( 4 x 2.1GHz + 4 x 1.7GHz) 16nm processor with Mali T830-MP2 GPU. It comes with 3GB / 4GB LPDDR3 RAM + 32GB (eMMC 5.1) inbuilt storage and 4GB RAM + 64GB (eMMC 5.1) inbuilt storage with microSD card expandable memory up to 128GB. It runs on the Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) OS with EMUI 4.1 on top.
It comes with dual-camera setup on rear side featuring a 12-megapixel rear camera with LED Flash, 6P lens, 1.25um pixel size, PDAF and a 2-megapixel secondary camera. It also comes with an 8-megapixel front-facing camera. It is backed up by a 3340mAh battery with fast charging support and comes with 4G VoLTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS connectivity options. It measures 150.9×72.6×8.2mm and weights 162 grams. A fingerprint scanner is available on the rear side of the phone below the rear camera module that can unlock the phone in 0.3 seconds.