Honor 5A with 5.5-inch display, Android Marshmallow, 3100mAh battery announced

Huawei sub-brand Honor after launching the Honor V8 with dual rear camera setup last month, has now announced its latest budget smartphone, Honor 5A, successor of Honor 4A. The phone sports a plastic body with metallic frame and 3D patterns on the back. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Emotion 4.1 UI on top, and comes with dual-SIM slot and 4G VoLTE support.

The Honor 5A features a 5.5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) IPS display and is powered by either a 1.2GHz octa-core Kirin SoC w/ Mali 450 GPU (or) octa-core Snapdragon 617 SoC w/ Adreno 405 GPU. The phone packs 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage, which can be expanded via microSD card up to 128GB.

For photography, it gets 13-megapixel Sony/Omnivision rear camera with LED flash and f/2.0 aperture. For video calling and snapping selfies it rocks an 8-megapixel front camera with Sony/Hynix BSI sensor.

Connectivity duties are handled by 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS. It is fueled by 3100mAh battery. Unfortunately it does not have a fingerprint scanner.

The Huawei Honor 5A comes in various versions priced at CNY 699 ($106 | Rs. 7,000) for the for standard version and costs CNY 799 ($120 | Rs. 8,000) for the carrier variant (China Unicom, China Telecom). The phone will be available for order starting today via vmall and will go on sale in China on June 17.