Honor Play launched in India with Kirin 970, price starts at ₹19,999 ($291)

Huawei and Honor have certainly not slowed down when it comes to launching new phones in 2018. So far this year, Honor, an online-only subsidiary of Huawei, has launched the Honor View 10, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 10, and the Honor 9N in India. Its parent company Huawei has launched the Huawei P20 Pro and the Huawei P20 Lite, while the Huawei Nova 3 and the Huawei Nova 3i will be made available later this month. Now, at an event in Delhi, Honor has launched the Honor Play in India, and it’s the cheapest Honor phone to be powered by the high-end HiSilicon Kirin 970 system-on-chip.

Let’s take a look at the specifications of the Honor Play:

Honor Play – Specifications at a glance

Specifications	Honor Play
Dimensions and weight	157.91 x 74.27 x 7.48 mm, 176g
Software	Android 8.1 Oreo with EMUI 8.2
SoC	Octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 970 (4x 2.36GHz Arm Cortex-A73 cores and 4x 1.8GHz Arm Cortex-A53 cores); Mali-G72MP12 GPU clocked at 746MHz; Neural Processing Unit; i7 co-processor
RAM and storage	4GB/6GB of RAM with 64GB UFS 2.1 storage; hybrid microSD card slot
Battery	3,750mAh; 9V/2A fast charging
Display	6.3-inch Full HD+ (2340×1080) IPS LCD with 19.5:9 aspect ratio, 409 PPI
Wi-Fi	Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.2
Ports	USB Type-C port (USB 2.0), dual nano SIM slots (nano SIM + nano SIM/microSD), 3.5mm headphone jack
Bands	GSM: 850/900/1800/1900MHz WCDMA: 850/900/2100MHz FDD-LTE: Bands 1/3/5/8 TDD-LTE: Bands 34/38/39/40/41
Rear camera	16MP primary camera with 1.1μm pixels, f/2.2 aperture, phase detection autofocus (PDAF), single LED flash 2MP depth sensing secondary camera Video recording up to 4K at 30fps, electronic image stabilization (EIS) for 1080p video, AIS
Front-facing camera	16MP with f/2.0 aperture

Honor Play – Pricing and availability

The Honor Play will cost Rs. 19,999 for the 4GB RAM variant, and goes up to Rs. 23,999 for the 6GB RAM variant. Both go on sale via Amazon India and the HiHonorStore from today, starting 4pm IST. The smartphones will be made available in Midnight Black and Navy Blue colour (seen above) options. The Honor Play launch offers on Amazon India include a bundled Vodafone offer that will provide 10GB of data additional per month for a year, along with an Amazon Prime subscription, and more.

Note: Huawei has stopped providing official bootloader unlock codes for its devices. Therefore, the bootloader of the Honor Play cannot be unlocked, which means that users cannot flash Magisk/TWRP/Project Treble Generic System Images/AOSP-based custom ROMs.

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