Honor Play with 16-megapixel camera launched in India; know specs, price and more

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei-owned Honor on Monday launched its new smartphone Honor Play with powerful Kirin 970 chipset in India.

The smartphone will be an Amazon exclusive and made available online for buyers from 4 PM on Monday.

Honor Play will have the powerful flagship processor Kirin 970. For AI capabilities Honor Play will be powered with Neural Processing unit (NPU).

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Specifications

Honor Play will have 16.0 cm FHD+ full view display. Along with powerful Kirin 970 processor the smartphone will have GPU turbo. The smartphone will come in two RAM 4 GB and 6 GB variants with 64 GB of internal storage.

Honor Play will have 3750mAh battery with latest fast charging technology. 

On the camera front, the smartphone sports a 16-megapixel camera and secondary sensor of 2-megapixel. There is also a 16-megapixel camera for selfies. 

Honor Play will run on EMUI 8.2 based Android 8.1 Oreo.

The smartphone weighs 176 g (6.21 oz) and has the dimensions of 157.9 x 74.3 x 7.5 mm (6.22 x 2.93 x 0.30 in) with latest 19:5:9 screen aspect ratio. 

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Honor Play Price in India 

As for the price of the handset in China, the model costs CNY 1,999 (about Rs. 21,000) for the 4GB RAM variant, and CNY 2,399 (about Rs. 25,100) for the 6GB RAM option.

However, in India the smartphone is priced at Rs 19,999.

Earlier this year, Huawei launched its Huawei P20 lite in the same price range.