Huawei’s sub-brand Honor recently unveiled the new Honor 8A Pro smartphone in Russia. Now the company is working on new entry-level offering which could be a successor to last year’s Honor 7S smartphone. The phone, dubbed as Honor 8S, has surfaced online revealing its design and specifications.
As per the render, the Honor 8S will feature a dewdrop notch display and a single rear camera with LED flash on the rear. The screen is surrounded by tiny bezels, with a comparatively thicker chin. The phone is likely to have a 3.5mm Headphone jack at the top edge, while both the power button and volume rocker buttons lie on the right edge. Notably, the phone does not feature any fingerprint sensor at the back. Leaked renders reveal the device will be available in three colours – Black, Gold, and Blue.
According to a report by WinFuture, Honor 8S will feature a 5.71-inch waterdrop notch display with a resolution of 1520 x 720 pixels. Under the hood, the phone will be powered by Helio A22 SoC clocked at up to 2.0 GHz. The phone will have 2GB of RAM with 32GB inbuilt storage. The company is said to release a 64GB storage and 3GB RAM model exclusively for Western Europe. The storage can be further expanded up to 256GB via a microSD card slot.
For optics, Honor 8S will feature a 13-megapixel camera at the back with LED flash while at the front there will be 5-megapixel selfie shooter. It will run on Android 9 Pie based on Huawei’s EMUI 9 interface. The report further reveals that the Honor 8S will be backed up by a 3020 mAh battery. The phone will have a thickness of 8.45 millimeters with plastic housing.