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Honor 8S

Announced: April 2019.OS: Android 9 Pie. VDRD-summary: It is better not to buy!
Starting price of $120. Starting price of: 7 426 ₽. Starting price of: 4 428 ₴.
Status: Almost gone.
  • Screen 5.71" IPS LCD
  • Rear сamera 13 MP
  • Selfie camera 5 MP
  • CPU 4 cores Helio A22 (12 nm)
  • Memory 2/3 GB RAM
  • Storage 32/64 GB ROM
  • Memory cards microSDXC
  • Battery 3 020 mAh
  • Thickness 8.5 mm
  • Sim Cards 2 items dual sim
All characteristics

Short description Honor 8S

This is a smartphone on Android 9 Pie with a usual good processor, with a large touchscreen size, with a very good main camera, and the front camera here turned out to be absolutely ordinary. And Honor 8S has such features: a slot for two SIM cards, cut-out notch above the screen (so that a selfie camera, speakers and additional sensors are placed there).

Also known as: Honor Play 8 for China.

Versions: KSE-LX9, KSA-LX9.

Disclaimer. The table shows the main technical characteristics of the device. For a full list of features and capabilities of this model, see the manufacturer’s website. We can not guarantee that the information on this page is 100% correct.

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Android version and market relevance

Honor 8S is a novelty of 2019, which was officially announced in April the world′s electronics manufacturer — the company Honor. In addition, this smartphone supports the work of two SIM cards, here you are, and please, the first reason for buying this model (or any other dual-smartphone from the catalog).

In 2019 this new model works out of the box running the Android operating system 9 Pie. But in the market of android-smartphones an important factor when buying a new device is the possibility of updating it to a fresh version of the OS. So Honor 8S has not received any software updates, which is very sad, so we advise you to look at other DROID-smartphones in our catalog.

And also it is worth mentioning that the manufacturer did not implement support for 5G networks in Honor 8S. Therefore, if this is an actual requirement for a smartphone for you today, we advise you to choose any 5G smartphone from this list of models.

Screen, body and battery

By the size of the Honor 8S screen, we were assigned to a segment medium large smartphones, considering that the bezels around the screen are very large (we advise you to look at models with thin frames or frameless smartphones). See for yourself, here is IPS LCD-screen with diagonal 5.71″ and with a drop-like notch for selfie camera and sensors.

Dimensions of the screen dictate to us and the size of the case. At Honor 8S the case turned out very thick — 8.5 mm. Today you can easily choose and buy a new smartphone with a very thin case. The battery in this model has a capacity 3 020 mAh. This model could become a flip smartphone and get into our catalog on a separate page, where all phones with flexible screens are collected. Unfortunately, this did not happen. And therefore, if you are interested in smartphones with such top-end characteristics, we advise you to look at them in our catalog and get a deeper understanding in which direction the entire mobile electronics industry is moving. Perhaps, in a couple of years, every second person on the planet will have such flip smartphones.

Main camera and selfie camera

Let′s briefly describe the cameras in Honor 8S. The main camera got one module: 13 MP with a regular lens. And this is a regular camera with one module. If you want to buy a smartphone with a dual camera or a triple camera or four cameras or even five cameras, then goto in our catalog.

The front camera has one module: 5 MP with a regular lens. Do not say that this is very much, is in our catalog selfie smartphones, whose frontcamera will be an order of magnitude better. This model has a front camera as usual at the top of the screen, like 99.9% of all smartphones. But, if this makes you bored, then we can offer smartphones with pop-up front camera. In these models, the front camera is located inside the body and goes up only when you activate the front camera mode. It sounds interesting, but how convenient it is and how long this mechanism will work is not yet clear.

Processor and Internal Memory

And write a few words about the performance of Honor 8S. Of course, the very first thing that will be discussed is the processor. The model received a 4-core processor Helio A22.

The second performance characteristic in our opinion is the amount of RAM. The Honor 8S has 2 installed on the RAM, but you can choose the version with 3 GB of RAM, to make the smartphone work even faster.

The built-in flash memory of this model has the volume 32 GB, but you can choose the version with 64 GB. The manufacturer did not forget about the support of memory cards in the smartphone. Here you can install a card microSDXC.

Price for Honor 8S: buy or not to buy?

The average size of the new smartphone Honor 8S you can choose and buy in any store at a price of $120. Sales start at April 2019.

We made a brief review of this model, we also recommend that you look at photos and videos about it. In our opinion, the smartphone turned out to be average in performance, but with a good camera.

And if you are not suitable for buying Honor 8S, then choose any other smartphone from the price segment “Affordable smartphones from $100 to $200” or directory of current DROID smartphones.

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