Huawei has made a name for itself by bringing high-quality dual-camera setups in its Huawei P, honor and Mate line-ups. Such is not the case for the Huawei Honor 8 Lite, though, as the phone came out last February straight to the lower-range price smartphone market.
Both the Honor 8 and the Honor 6X, introduced January came out with dual cameras. Dual-camera arrays can help pictures achieve more depth, clarity, and crisp, even on affordable phones.
Said models came to be mass-market versions of its premium phone, the Mate 9 and took the gap on the market created by the retirement of Samsung’s flagship Galaxy Note 7 after problems emerge with its batteries catching on fire and exploding.
The Honor 8 Lite serves a different purpose. Apart from some extra camera tweaks, it has lower specs to match its lower price tag.
Huawei Honor 8 Lite specs: display, processor, and memory
The Honor 8 Lite comes with a 5.2-inch display with 1,920x1080 pixel resolution and 532 PPI pixel density. It has an LTPS capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors and 72.5% screen-to-body ratio.
The phone runs on an octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor, 16GB internal storage, and 3GB memory RAM. It has a microSD card slot for 256 GB extra storage.
The OS of the smartphone is Android 6.0 Marshmallow upgradable to 7.0 Nougat. Furthermore, it has Huawei’s Emotion 5.0 user interface.
Huawei Mate 8 Lite camera
The primary camera carries 12 MP and f/2.2 lens. It has laser autofocus, dual-LED flash, and check quality.
The unit features a ½.0-inch sensor size, 1.25µmpixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, facedetection, HDR, and panorama pictures.
The back camera has 8MP and it features a f/2.4 lens and 1.4µm pixel size.
Additional features
The Honor 8 Lite is a standard smartphone and it brings no additional feature compared to its Huawei counterparts. However, it is worth noting it carries a 3.5mm audio jack, an active noise cancellation with a dedicated microphone, and DTS sound.
On the back of the phone, there is a fingerprint sensor, an accelerometer, a gyro, a proximity, and a compass. Lastly, it has a single Type-C 1.0 reversible connector.
The Honor 8 lite runs on a non-removable 3,000 mAh battery that can power the phone up to 24h on 3G. The phone supports fast battery charging at a rate of 47% power in 30 minutes (Smart Power 4.0).
Furthermore, the smartphone supports MP3, WAV, and ACC+, MP4, and H.264 files, and it has a Flac player as well.
Release date and availability
The Huawei Mate 8 Lite started selling in Europe as of February 14 and reached international markets by early March. The smartphone has a price of €269, which means $290, £232, or AU$378.