Neighbourhood Technology Desk: Huawei’s sub-brand Honor on Tuesday announced the global variant of its Honor 10. The smartphone, which first launched in China last month, is one of the first Huawei phones to come with a notch-display, inspired by Apple’s iPhone X. Huawei recently adopted the notch display for its new P20 series of phones as well.

Specifications

Flaunts a 5.84-inch full HD+ edge-to-edge display with an aspect ratio of 19:9. Under the hood of the smartphone runs in-house octa-core Kirin 970 processor. In the photography department, Honor 10 sports a dual-camera setup at the rear which includes 16-megapixel and 24-megapixel sensors. The AI-based dual-cameras feature an LED flash, PDAF and f/1.8 aperture. It also comes with 3D ‘Portrait Lighting’ feature.

For selfies, there’s a 24-megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture. On the software front, the smartphone runs on Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI 8.1 layered on top. Honor 10 is fuelled by a 3,400mAh battery along with support for fast charging. Honor claims that the smartphone can charge up to 50% within 25 minutes. Connectivity options on Honor 10 include 4G LTE, USB Type-C port, 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.2.