Honor 5X available for pre-orders next week. Price starts from RM899

If you’ve been waiting for the honor 5X, mark your calendars this coming 16th February. Pre-orders for this mid-range metal unibody smartphone will start at 12PM and all 3 colours will be available on Vmall Malaysia.

In terms of price, the Grey and Silver versions are going for RM899, while its Gold option is going for RM939. To recap on the specs, the honor 5X gets a 5.5″ Full HD display and it runs on a Snapdragon 615 processor that’s mated to 2GB of RAM. There’s 16GB of storage that’s expandable with microSD, plus a dedicated dual-SIM slot.

For imaging, it gets a 13MP f/2.0 main camera plus a front facing 5MP f/2.4 snapper. For better security, it gets a snappy fingerprint scanner mounted at the back and out of the box, it runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with EMUI 3.1. Powering the device is a decent 3,000mAh capacity battery that supports Qualcomm QuickCharge 3.0. For orders placed on the 16th February, Vmall.my will be shipping them out by 19th February. All honor 5x sold thru vmall.my will get an extra 6 month free one to one exchange warranty against any factory defects.

If you haven’t seen it yet, do check out our hands-on and first impressions from the recent honor 5x launch in Malaysia.