Huawei's sub-brand Honor has been selling phones in India for a while now. Huawei itself only sells the Huawei P9[1] (Review[2]) and Nexus 6P[3] (Review[4]) officially in India, but Honor caters to a much wider audienc with phones like the Holly 2 Plus[5] (Review[6]) in the sub-Rs. 10,000 space, and the upper-end of the market with the Honor 8[7] (Review[8]). It also launched the Honor 6X[9] (Review[10]) which is the among the most affordable phones to offer dual rear cameras.
The recently announced Honor 8 Lite fits somewhere in the middle of the price range that the Honor brand targets. The company claims that this phone's camera can deliver professional output, and that its in-house Kirin processor can handle pretty much anything you throw at it. So does the Honor 8 Lite live up to these claims? Let's find out.
Honor 8 Lite design
As the name suggests the Honor 8 Lite is a toned-down version of the Honor 8[11] (Review[12]) and has a lot of similarities. There's a plastic frame in the centre sandwiched between two slabs of 2.5D glass. The front is dominated by a 5.2-inch display and has on-screen buttons. There's an 8-megapixel selfie camera above the screen, along with a metallic earpiece. The Honor 8 Lite is quite good to look at thanks to its glass back, but this unfortunately is a fingerprint magnet and makes the phone slippery as well. We saw it sliding when placed on a non-flat surface. The black colour makes smudges very evident and you'll have to keep wiping this phone.
The 12-megapixel camera...