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 be available starting 4PM IST today from Amazon India. The 4GB RAM/64GB storage variant costs ₹19,999 ($291), while the 6GB RAM/64GB storage variant costs ₹23,999 ($349). The phone will be available in Midnight Black and Navy Blue colors.

Launch offers include a bundled Vodafone offer that will provide users 10GB additional data per month for a year, an Amazon Prime subscription, and more.

In terms of pricing, the Honor Play is the cheapest phone in India with a high-end system-on-chip. The Kirin 970's performance roughly matches that of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835, and it outperforms the Snapdragon 660. The phone's primary competitors are the upcoming Xiaomi Mi A2, Nokia 7 Plus, Oppo F7, and the Huawei P20 Lite. Specifications-wise, the Honor Play clearly delivers the most value, at least on paper.

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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