The Huawei Honor 5X Dual SIM smartphone’s sleek aluminum alloy body and cutting edge components make it a durable, delightfully dynamic device to work with. It features a rear 13MP and front 5MP snapper, both of which are endowed with the technology required to click stunning, lifelike photos and videos. View them all and other content on the spectacular Full HD 5.5inch IPS panel touchscreen. The Huawei Honor specs are inclusive of an ultra responsive fingerprint scanner that is embedded in the back of this device. Supplemented with Fingerprint Identification 2.0 technology, this scanner gives you a simple, secure way to unlock, make calls, engage cameras, etc. on the phone, with a mere touch. The device’s architecture includes the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa Core processor that powers all its features and applications effortlessly. This flawless performance goes hand in hand with the device’s superb connectivity that accommodates a built in WiFi adapter and support for 4G LTE for blazing fast Internet speeds. The mobile assumes a svelte gold exterior and sports a slender frame that looks charming.

Physical Features

Key Features

Incredible Design

None of the Huawei Honor 5X reviews do justice to this masterpiece's design. The incredible design, weighing about 158g, combines futuristic art with world class architecture. The sleek golden body blends ergonomic principles to reproduce an exquisite piece for your hands. The sleek, robust housing of this beautiful smartphone is crafted from aluminum alloy that is typically used in the making of aircraft.

Fast, Accurate, and Smart Fingerprint Identification 2.0

The Huawei Honor 5X features an extremely advanced fingerprint scanner on its back that is enhanced with Fingerprint Identification 2.0 technology. The rim free scanner has an FPC sensor that has a 0.5 second unlocking time. The cutting edge sensor is adaptive and effectively prevents failed recognition caused by wet hands, partial fingerprints, etc. by learning more about your fingerprint over time. You can set up the fingerprint scanner with just six touches. App Lock, File Safe, and Visitor Mode provide you with complete peace of mind, thanks to this sensor.

Wrapped Around Your Finger

You can link a fingerprint with someone in your contacts and make calls to that person with just a touch of your finger. Start your favorite app almost instantly by simply linking it to a fingerprint input. The best part? These functions also work in the locked screen mode! The revolutionary fingerprint scanner also enables you to take photos from the front and rear camera, cancel an alarm, answer incoming calls, and control notification bar with a mere touch.

Raw Power

The Huawei Honor 5X Dual SIM smartphone’s 64bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 Octa Core processor with big.LITTLE setup is made using 28nm technology. It enables an absolute glitch free performance while consuming limited power. Add to that, a high speed 2GB RAM and PC grade GPU, and you have yourself a butter smooth, responsive phone user experience.

A Slot for All

The Huawei 5X Dual SIM smartphone is the first metallic phone from the Honor series to feature a separate micro SIM, nano SIM, and microSD card slot. This is improved compatibility as compared to conventional dual nano SIM solutions. You can insert 4G SIM cards into either SIM slots and enjoy the red hot Internet speeds that come with them. The inclusion of automatic band switching technology and a higher order mode ring patch antenna permit stronger signal reception. The Huawei 5X Dual SIM smartphone can accommodate all your valuable data on its 16GB built in storage. You can expand this available space by inserting a microSD card of up to 128GB in the provided slot.

Picturesque Full HD Screen

Huawei Honor 5X reviews have been particularly glowing about its 5.5inch HD IPS panel display that produces 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution images with up to 16.7M colors. The fully laminated screen has a 72.5 percent screen to body ratio. The display’s pixel by pixel dynamic contrast adjustment enables improved contrast under varying light conditions and high visibility, even with a glare.

Revolutionary Cameras

The Huawei 5X Dual SIM smartphone has a 13MP rear camera with 28mm wide angle lens and F2.0 aperture. The stacked image sensor of the rear camera, enhanced with SmartImage 3.0 image processor, can help you capture high resolution images in a variety of shooting scenarios. For example, in macro mode, this five elements lens camera can snap up crisp, closeups of subjects from just a few centimeters away. The device also features a 5MP front camera with 22mm wide angle lens and an F2.4 aperture. This camera, with four elements lens, has an 88 degree viewing angle for panoramic selfies. The front snapper also has a large 1.4 micron pixel size. These cutting edge Huawei Honor 5X cameras enable you to take clear shots, even in low light conditions. The Huawei 5X Dual SIM smartphone has various exciting shooting modes for capturing picture perfect images with each click. For example, switching to the food mode lets you click pictures of food with stunning realism and colors. With time lapse mode, you can capture photos in intervals, which can be compiled together into short videos. Your selfies turn out to be picture perfect, thanks to the device’s Perfect Selfie Mode and a unique "blemist" filter.

Simple Simon Says, "EMUI 3.1 and Lollipop!"

A Simple UI adopted by this smartphone extends enhanced accessibility for all your interactions. You have larger fonts and icons too that have been arranged in a natural layout that is easy to get used to. This UI also grants the device a higher volume and a monumental battery life. Customizable off screen gestures enable you to open several pre configured apps instantly. The Huawei 5X Dual SIM smartphone comes loaded with EMUI 3.1 that is based on the Android Lollipop OS v5.1. Its novel privacy features make it possible to save your personal files in a secure place, hide home screen apps, thereby protecting your sensitive information.

Long Lasting Battery

The 3000mAh Huawei Honor 5X battery lasts for over a day, even with heavy use. It supports 2A chargers, which enable shorter charging times. The inclusion of SmartPower 3.0 technology, with eight point power saving plan, helps reduce energy consumption by up to 30 percent.

Contemporary Connectivity Options

The Huawei 5X gold smartphone enables instant transfer of data to and from other similarly equipped devices via its Bluetooth 4.1. This 4G LTE supporting mobile also incorporates an advanced WiFi adapter for near constant Internet connectivity.