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Honor 5X deals and reviews

Honor 5X

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32 Critic Reviews

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Release Date (UK): March 2016

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What the critics say (scores are out of 100)

94

TechAeris | Jason Bouwmeester

If you're looking for a budget Android smartphone with decent performance, battery life, and camera, you can't go wrong with the Huawei Honor 5X

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91

TechDissected | Cliff Wade

The Honor 5X is an attractive smartphone with sturdy performance for its price range, a hearty battery life and agreeable camera performance.

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91

Techdissected | Cliff Wade

The Honor 5X is an attractive smartphone. The price is exceptional and very hard to beat especially for what you get with the device as far as specs are concerned.

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90

Android Headlines | Nick Sutrich

...you're going to be hard pressed to find any brand new phone that's better than the Honor 5x. With region-specific models that provide 4G LTE in your area, a mostly solid build despite a fragile camera hump (get a case), great quality photos, sound output and even a good screen all feel more like a phone that's much more expensive than this one.

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90

CNET UK | Jessica Dolcourt

Huawei does a pretty darn good job making its Honor 5X a usable phone with a mix of high- and low-end features. You'll still run into flaws here and there in the camera's photo quality and processing speeds, but compared to other phones in its category, the 5X is a more than decent buy.

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84

NotebookCheck | Florian Wimmer

Honor's 5X is a bargain with some shortcomings that need to be accepted: poor call quality, middling speaker, and unstable GPS reception. However, the attractive casing and bright screen compensate for that.

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80

The Mobile Indian | Anil Satapathy

Honor 5X might not sound that attractive as some of its competitors ... However, in all other areas, the Honor 5X is as good as any.

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80

AndroidPit | Shu On Kwok

The Honor 5X is an attractive smartphone with sturdy performance for its price range, a hearty battery life and agreeable camera performance.

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80

Tom's Guide | Cherlynn Low

The Honor 5X squeezes an all-day battery, a useful fingerprint sensor and good cameras into a solid, all-metal body. I love the clever use of the fingerprint sensor for shortcuts, and the surprisingly speedy performance. Android purists may not like the heavy-handed EMUI skin, but I'm happy to install a different theme over it.

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80

OtherGadgette | Emma Boyle

Overall, if you've been searching for a solid Android handset that looks good and won't start throwing lag at you after just two weeks of use, the Honor 5X is a great choice, and its existence makes it hard to accept phones twice the price with no microSD or fingerprint sensor. This phone feels like a gauntlet thrown down to the budget end of the market – your move, manufacturers.

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80

Coolsmartphone | Matteo Doni

The Honor 5X is undoubtedly great value for money: you get a lot of bang for your pound ... The full metal body, excellent screen and good battery life are all things you would expect from competing flagships. I would say the only weak point of the device is the overall camera performance, but it is still on a par with competitors in the same price range.

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80

AnandTech | Brandon Chester

Overall, I think Huawei has done a good job with the design of the Honor 5X, especially when you consider its price point. The Honor 5X offers you a lot for your money, and so it fulfills its expected role quite well.

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80

Stuff | James Peckham

All the normal problems of Huawei are present in this Honor phone, but there's a lot to love and for the price it's quite astonishing what the company has managed to achieve.

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80

IT PRO | Alan Lu

By no means a clean sweep, but this budget Android phone is still a surprisingly good bargain... It's a good value smartphone and, if you install another Android launcher such as Nova Launcher, you can get round most of the annoying interface problems.

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80

Android Authority | Krystal Lora

The honor 5X brings a beautiful metal build, a big 5.5-inch screen, and a fingerprint scanner - features unheard of for such a low price point. Even with questionable software, a mediocre camera and sluggish performance, this affordable phone is still worth picking up.

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80

The Guardian | Samuel Gibbs

The build quality is solid, it looks decent, the battery life stretches to almost two days without having to activate battery saving modes and the screen is very good.... Software is where the 5X falters a little, which can be laggy and doesn't conform to the standard Android experience, mimicking that of an iPhone.

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80

Pocket-lint | Elyse Betters

As we said earlier: you win some, lose some. And here hardware is 50/50. It's the software that's a letdown, with EMUI feeling as though it's weighing down the Android experience in this guise.

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78

MobileTechTalk | Mark Ramos

The Honor 5x is simply put, a nice device. It's a really nice device for the price but while it has some crazy stand out features it just isn't anything special...it's just a gimmick.

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70

Firstpost | Nimish Sawant

But the Honor 5X manages to hold its own with its overall performance.

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70

PC Mag | Ajay Kumar

The Huawei Honor 5X is the best looking affordable unlocked phone you can buy, but it's held back by an obtrusive UI and some performance issues.

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70

Android Central | Andrew Martonik

The Honor 5X is a budget-priced phone that feels aspirational to something worth a bit more than you paid.... You get a better hardware experience than you might expect, with a good screen, capable camera and a fingerprint sensor. Unfortunately, the Honor software story remains mostly unchanged, eroding away any goodwill gained from touching the phone.

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70

Recombu | Alex Todd

It's important to remember the Honor 5X costs, which for a dual-SIM 4G phone with a Full HD screen and expandability up to 128GB is pretty enticing. Similarly-priced handsets which certainly feature elements that out-perform the 5X in one area or another, but don't serve as the perfect alternative.

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70

Neowin | Timi Cantisano

While the Honor 5X might not be the "perfect storm" we were hoping for, it does offer a glimpse of what could come in the near future - an affordable handset, that functions on all levels and offers a premium experience.

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70

Trusted Reviews | Alastair Stevenson

The Honor 5X is fantastic value for money, but let down by poor software.

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70

pocketnow | Juan Carlos Bagnell

Huawei is bringing something unique to the budget crowd. For the savvier folks in our audience, a few software tweaks can really polish up the experience. However the Honor wouldn't be our first pick for general smartphone shoppers.

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70

The Register | Andrew Orlowski

Best in class value with an oddball UI – but at least it's a beefy build.

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70

Brighthand | Vince Font

That the major carriers have dropped subsidies and contracts makes the Honor 5X's price tag appealing. Its quality build, large display, and handful of high-end features only add to it.

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70

NDTV Gadgets | Ali Pardiwala

he Honor 5X is a sensible mid-range smartphone that checks all the right boxes. It's built well, looks acceptable, has all the right connectivity options, and has a decent camera too... The only real shortcomings are annoying software and slightly sub-par battery life, but these are easily forgivable when you consider the overall package.

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60

Expert Reviews | Katharine Byrne

The Honor 5X is one of the cheapest phones to come with a fingerprint sensor, but its terrible camera and sluggish performance hold it back

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60

Gizmodo UK | Darren Orf

The Honor 5X is an admirable first step in making a phone that's cheap and can masquerade as top tier - the software just needs to catch up.

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60

Alphr | Jonathan Bray

It isn't the most exciting phone you'll come across this year, but its low price, large screen size and, in particular, that fingerprint reader, means it sits in a class of its own at this price. If Honor can follow this up with decent battery life, it'll have yet another solid Android offering on its hands.

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60

phoneArena | John V.

The honor 5X is definitely a choice to mull over if you're looking for a backup or replacement – without having to settle for something cheap-cheap.

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Form factor and dimensions
Dimensions & Form

Form factor: Touchscreen bar
Dimensions 151.3 x 76.3 x 8.15 mm (5.96 x 3 x 0.32 in)
Weight: 158 g (5.57 oz)

Screen
Screen

Size: 5.5 inches diagonal
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 pixels
Screen Density: 401 ppi
Screen-to-Body Ratio: 72.2 %

Display Type: IPS LCD

Operating System
Runs

Android

Performance
Performance

Chipset: Qualcomm MSM8939v2 Snapdragon 616
CPU: Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU: Adreno 405
RAM: 2GB / 3GB

Camera
Camera

Main Camera: 13 megapixels with LED flash
Secondary Camera: 5 megapixels

Storage
Storage

Built-in Storage: 16GB
Expandable Storage: Micro SD

Battery
Battery & Charging

Capacity: 3000 mAh
Removable Battery: No
Wireless Charging: No
Quick Charge: None

SIM Standard
SIM standard

Micro SIM
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Water and Dust Resistance
Water & Dust Resistance

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Fingerprint Reader
Fingerprint Reader

Rear

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