Huawei’s upcoming budget phone, the Honor 3C is gathering a record amount of attention in China after being put up for reservations earlier this week. In a short 36 hours the sub 800 CNYphone (131 USD, 96 EUR) received 1.5 million reservations.
Reservations are not always indicative of true sales however, as they do not require a commitment to buy or a down payment, but instead just put the buyer in a virtual line to get the device.
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The Huawei Honor 3C comes with a 5-inch 720×1280 screen, the Mediatek MT6582 chip set with a quad-core 1.3 GHz CPU, an 8MP back facing camera, a 5MP front facing camera, 4GB of expandable on device storage and comes in both 1GB and 2GB of RAM models (for an extra 200 CNY).
The Huawei Honor 3C will accept reservations until Christmas day. It is expected to launch the same day with the Huawei Honor 3X, the 3C‘s more powerful and expensive cousin which includes an octa-core processor.
While the reservations are not necessarily a commitment to buy, it is hard to imagine the 3C being anything but a huge hit. We will keep you up to date with the latest information.
Will be out eventually. They have to first satisfy the huge market in China before they release it elsewhere.
If you had a choice between this phone & the iNew V3, which would you choose and why ?
Good question! Probably i would go for huawei for a number of reasons (better build quality, larger battery ) but its not available yet and we need to see hands on , on both the devices….
Huawei is a known brand, so we would be “safe” with its devices, i’m just itching to try a chinese brand and it does look amazing. Hopefully the GizChina Team will get one to conduct a video review of.
I choose V3 because of the camera and the 16GB internal memory.
And remember that the international price of this one will be at least 150$.
Huawei is releasing updates for their phones, while I’ve never heard about company iNew, these companies come and go, forget about ever getting firmware update with CN noname unless there is good community around
Ian, where we can buy Honor 3X?
I would buy it in a heartbeat.
guys look this videos about the honor3C, i hope the international version work in america , i like it this an interesting low cost and working nice