The Huawei Honor 5X (; also known as Huawei GR5) is a mid-range Android

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manufactured by

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as part of the

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. It uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor and an aluminum body design. It was first released in

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in October 2015, and was released in the

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and

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in January 2016.

Specifications

Hardware

The Honor 5X has a metal-clad design using "aviation-grade aluminum" for its body. It uses a 5.5-inch

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fully laminated display with a pixel density of 401 ppi, octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor with an Adreno 405 GPU, 2 or 3 GB of DDR3

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, and 16 GB of internal storage. It has "Fingerprint 2.0 technology",which allows user to directly unlock the smartphone with just user input using an FPC1020 fingerprint scanner. The Honor 5X comes with 13 Megapixel rear camera with dual-LED flash, f/2.0

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and Phase Detection AutoFocus. It has a f/2.4 5 Megapixel front facing camera. It comes in 16GB in-built storage which can be expanded up to 128GB using MicroSD card and has a 3000 mAh battery.

Software

The Honor 5X was originally marketed with Emotion User Interface v3.1, a customisation of Android Lollipop;

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and EMUI 4 updates followed. The device is officially supported by LineageOS v14.1 up to v16.0 (Android Pie)(Beta version is v17.0 with android 10), a free and open-source operating system based on

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. The LineageOS release was preceded by unofficial builds of

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v13.0, which is based on Android Marshmallow.

History

The Honor 5X was first announced at an event held by Huawei in

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on 27 October 2015. The smartphone was initially offered in two versions; the model with 2 GB of RAM memory had a price of and the model with 3 GB of RAM memory had a price of . It launched in India at . On January 28, it was listed on Flipkart and

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for sale. On 6 January 2016, during CES 2016, Huawei announced that the version of the Honor 5X with 2 GB of RAM memory would be sold in the United States for .

References

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