The honor 5X and honor 7 Enhanced have hit Malaysian shores

Two brand new honor smartphones have been officially unveiled in Malaysia — the honor 5X and the honor 7 Enhanced — and they’re poised to take the local midrange smartphone market by storm.

honor 5X

The honor 5X is the much anticipated budget-midrange smartphone from the Chinese company that looks to take on Xiaomi’s very own device in that class — the Redmi Note 3. Clad in an all-metal unibody, the honor 5X comes with a 5.5-inch full HD and packs a Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor paired with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable internal storage.

It also comes with a 13MP f/2.0 primary camera with a dual-LED flash for taking photos. Selfies are taken care of by the front-facing 5MP f/2.4 snapper. The 5X also sports a large 3,000 mAh battery that has support for Quick Charge 3.0, plus a dedicated dual-SIM tray — so none of that hybrid-SIM nonsense. The device will come running Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box with the EMUI 3.1 skin on top.

honor 7 Enhanced

As you can tell by the name, the honor 7 Enhanced is slightly improved version of the old (but gold) honor 7. It still packs the same 2.2GHz octa-core Kirin 935 processor paired with 3GB of RAM thrumming under a 5.2-inch full-HD display. It also brings over the honor 7’s 20-megapixel Sony IMX230 camera sensor with PDAF and a dual-LED flash plus an 8MP front-facing camera with its own LED flash.

What has changed then? It has more storage — double in fact at 32GB from the old 16GB found on the original honor 7. While it may seem like a simple change it is a significant one as one of the biggest qualms users had of this otherwise excellent device was the fact that it had a measly 16GB of onboard storage, which as we all know is not going to be enough especially with that 20MP snapper.

This is also the first non-Nexus device to come running Android 6.0 Marshmallow out-of-the-box that has been launched in Malaysia.

If you want to get your hands on either of these devices, you can register your interest on Vmall.my from 26 January onwards. There is currently no information on the price of these devices, but we believe that the 5X should come in below RM1,000.