Huawei might announce a new Honor X smartphone on July 22 to take on Xiaomi's Mi4

posted by Florin T. / Jul 16, 2014, 11:16 AM

Huawei might announce a new Honor X smartphone on July 22 to take on Xiaomi's Mi4

It looks like Xiaomi isn’t the only major Chinese smartphone maker that’s getting ready to announce a new handset on July 22. Huawei will also host an event on that day, and it seems that it’s going to unveil a new Honor X smartphone then.

Unfortunately, for now there are no details on what features this Honor X will offer. However, since Xiaomi’s upcoming device will be the Mi4 (a high-end smartphone that’s seen as the successor to last year’s Mi3), Huawei might want to counter Xiaomi’s announcement with its own new high-end device.

Of course, Huawei already has a brand new flagship smartphone: the octa-core Honor 6, which went on sale in China a few weeks ago. But we’re looking forward to seeing what the Honor X will brig anyway.

Since the Honor brand is used by Huawei only in China, the new handset will probably be available only there (though this doesn’t mean Huawei can’t make an international version of it). Well, we'll see what happens on July 22.

source: Huawei (Weibo) via Blog of Mobile (translated)

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15 Comments

1. Jinto

Posts: 436; Member since: Jan 15, 2014

Come on, I hope at least this phone uses the 64 bit Tegra K1

posted on Jul 16, 2014, 12:13 PM 2

2. Arte-8800

Posts: 4562; Member since: Mar 13, 2014

I'm waiting for a Tegrak1 phone.

posted on Jul 16, 2014, 12:26 PM 2

4. j.khan95

Posts: 51; Member since: Nov 09, 2013

I am afraid it's not gonna happen, k1 is not feasible for a typical smartphone due to power management and possible LTE issues, further a Chinese retail website has listed mi4 with specs, citing a s805 chip.I just hope that I mm wrong,

posted on Jul 16, 2014, 12:39 PM 0

5. Arte-8800

Chinese and Korea, and Japan will always be ahead of international and Europe in terms of using the very best specs. Look at the 5inch phone with 4000mah battery, with 8.5mm width.

posted on Jul 16, 2014, 12:45 PM 0

10. steedsofwar unregistered

What phone is this? Genuine question...

posted on Jul 16, 2014, 7:11 PM 0

12. Arte-8800

I've forgot, but PhoneArena did have an article about few months back

posted on Jul 17, 2014, 7:06 AM 1

8. vincelongman

Posts: 5611; Member since: Feb 10, 2013

Power management, you're might right this one, I believe the impressive laptop beating benchmarks were when the K1 fan cooled. But we dont know for sure, there's an Xiaomi Mi Pad (iPad Mini lookalike), so they could probably still use it in a phone but might lead to less battery life compared to the 801 LTE issues, the 805 also doesn't have integrated LTE, the S5 LTE-A has a Intel LTE modem, they'll do something similar with the K1

posted on Jul 16, 2014, 4:52 PM 0

11. GreekGeek

Posts: 1276; Member since: Mar 22, 2014

Ever wonder why the MiPad has a monstrous 6700mAh battery? Because the K1 is a battery hog! Imagine putting the K1 in a smartphone, it would make a 3000mAh 'below average", so NO, The K1 will never make it on smartphones, the OEMs were wise enough to figure that out.