The Honor 5C is currently the Huawei sub-brandβs most widely available phone. With balanced specs and a decent price tag, It looks like Honorβs got another winner on their hands. Weβve received a review unit courtesy of Huawei, and today weβll be unboxing the device and giving our first impressions on it.
Honor 5C β Specs
- Hisilicon Kirin 650 octa core (4 x 2.0 GHz Cortex-A53 & 4 x 1.7 GHz Cortex-A53)
- 2GB of RAM
- 5.2-inch full HD IPS display
- 16GB of expandable storage
- 13-megapixel rear camera, single LED flash
- 8-megapixel front camera
- Dual SIM (Hybrid slot)
- 3G, LTE
- WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, A-GPS, Fingerprint scanner
- 3000mAh battery
- Android 6.0 Marshmallow w/ EMUI 4.1
Packaging and contents:
The Honor 5C isnβt meant to be a top end device, and the packaging of the device reflects that. The design of the box is very simple and straight to the point. The word honor is repeated twice on the bright blue box, once in all caps and once more in the typical honor font.

Once you open said box, youβre instantly greeted by the Honor 5C, in all its glory. Under the device thereβs a little smiling face that lets you pull off the top panel, and below that thereβs the instruction booklet, a single microUSB cable and the charging adapter. No earphones here.
Overall, itβs very clear that this device is aimed at the budget side of the market. Thereβs not much of note in the box, and the packaging itself is designed to be more fun and bright than Huaweiβs more serious presentation.
First impressions: Premium Proposition
Being a sub-company of Huawei, youβd expect the Honor 5C to have very good build quality, and it does. The polished metal rear is very eye-catching and looks great to boot. The device feels very solid and there are no signs of poor build quality anywhere. In fact, I feel like the honor 5C is every bit as well built as any of Huaweiβs top of the line flagships, which says a lot about the 5Cβs build.
The back of the device shows of the 5Cβs 13MP rear camera and its LED flash, along with the a fingerprint sensor and the very pleasing honor logo. After playing around with the camera for a bit, Iβm quite impressed. This is one of the best cameras Iβve used at this price point, and while low light shots are still an issue, itβs still quite a good camera.
The SIM and microSD tray is on the the left of the device, while the power button and volume rocker are on the right side, as is the case with most of Huawei and honorβs smartphones. The phoneβs 3.5mm jack and USB port are at the logical places, namely top and bottom, respectively.
Up front youβll see the 5.2-inch IPS full HD display, as well as the 8-megapixel front camera. The 5C eschews capacitive touch buttons in favor of software buttons, though the chin of the device is still decked with the honor logo.
On the inside, the Honor 5C packs the Hisilicon Kirin 650 octa-core processor paired with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, which is expandable to up to 128GB. The device runs on Android Marshmallow 6.0 with EMUI 4.1 running on top.
After using the device for a bit, I must say Iβm rather impressed by it. While it may not be a spec monster like the new Redmi Pro or Vernee Apollo Lite, it more than makes up by being reliable and simple to use.
Thatβs pretty much it for now. Weβll be taking the phone out and using it as our primary phone in the next few days.If youβve got any questions or things youβd like to see in the full review, feel free to write about it in the comments!
Honor 8 launches in the US today!
big news for u π ?
Could be my future phone.
grats’ (in advance :p)
Still need to some reviews of how it compares to the Axon 7, OP3 and Idol 4s in terms of price and performance. Those are my Final 4 lol.
Balco Cup Semi-finals are underway π !
Honor 8 is the 1 seed in the finals π
tell you wat … could be mine too , if the price is right (huawei are major a**es in Pakistan , their prices are the worst here !)
They are launching the Honor 8 in several Middle Eastern countries starting with Saudi Arabia on September 5th so there is hope for you lol.
lol
Still don’t get why they removed the fingerprint scanner on the EU version …
Battery life (SOT, power consumption during the night) also the same on cellular net? Performance in general real usage scenarios (apps lunch and tasking between, games). This is first lower mid range priced phone with 16nm FinFET made SoC & looks as it may be a very good choice currently so please do a good complete review please.
Looks like a re-designed 5X.
The Kirin 650 is a very efficient chip, Honor P9 Lite`s battery life is amazing.
This should easily get you 6-7 hrs SoT.
My Redmi 3s sill better for its price
GPU sucks -only Mali T830 MP2 . Mediatek MT6750 Mali T860 MP2 is better
nice look with intresting features.
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