Honor 8X review: A smartphone with a little bit of everything for everyone

It has a slick design, flexible display options, decent on-battery life; the flipside is a weak camera interface and the glass-and-plastic facade that attracts fingerprint stains

Honor 8X, the  handset from the stable of Chinese smartphone brand Honor, an online subsidiary of Huawei, is a recent addition to the company’s mid-range line-up. It is the first Honor-branded smartphone to be powered by HiSilicon Kirin 710. However, it is not only the new breed of processor that makes this device special. Successor to the Honor 7X, the phone has a mammoth 6.5-inch notch-based screen, dual rear cameras with artificial intelligence-based automatic scene recognition capabilities and GPU Turbo technology that assures smooth gaming experience.

Priced at Rs 14,999 for the base model, with 4GB RAM and 64GB of internal