Honor 7x $199!

[Guytronic]

199 seemed good initially.
After reading about the hardware it's not much of a jump in my opinion. The only attractive design feature for me is the screen size.
By springtime the 7X will be 149.

 

[worldspy99]

Interesting that the Kirin 659 outperforms the Snapdragon 625. The 625 is a very nice chip. Got my daughter a Moto G5 Plus a while back and that's a snappy little phone with great battery life. Wife and one son have also been using the Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus - decent phones, but all these Moto phones need better cameras. Honor 7x has the better processor, better camera, and more features - plus it's cheaper. With their new phones like the 7X and V10, Honor may soon catch up with Moto in the USA market.

I agree. Moto is in some jeopardy. Huawei needs to clean up their software support though.

 

[Aljean Thein]

It also makes sense why they kept having the honor 6x on sale recently

Yah I knew they're getting rid of the 6x to make room for the 7x

 

[dpham00]

Interesting that the Kirin 659 outperforms the Snapdragon 625. The 625 is a very nice chip. Got my daughter a Moto G5 Plus a while back and that's a snappy little phone with great battery life. Wife and one son have also been using the Moto G4 and Moto G4 Plus - decent phones, but all these Moto phones need better cameras. Honor 7x has the better processor, better camera, and more features - plus it's cheaper. With their new phones like the 7X and V10, Honor may soon catch up with Moto in the USA market.

How is the battery life? My moto z play droid with the 625 was getting 15-18 hr sot

 

[dpham00]

199 seemed good initially.
After reading about the hardware it's not much of a jump in my opinion. The only attractive design feature for me is the screen size.
By springtime the 7X will be 149.

It won't be a permanent price at $149,in my opinion. Although it might be on sale at that price

 

[dpham00]

I agree. Moto is in some jeopardy. Huawei needs to clean up their software support though.

Well both moto and Huawei are going after the same target audience with these phones. I think if Huawei can get an unlocked one compatible with all carriers like moto then it could do well

 

[worldspy99]

It won't be a permanent price at $149,in my opinion. Although it might be on sale at that price

Agreed. It's not gonna be $149 until the 8X shows up.

 

[worldspy99]

Well both moto and Huawei are going after the same target audience with these phones. I think if Huawei can get an unlocked one compatible with all carriers like moto then it could do well

Software updates need to get sorted out as well, and soon.

 

[worldspy99]

How is the battery life? My moto z play droid with the 625 was getting 15-18 hr sot

That's just insane battery life!

 

[dpham00]

Agreed. It's not gonna be $149 until the 8X shows up.

I am not even sure that will happen. The honor 6x is still $199-249 on honor website today. It is $199 retail on Amazon though on sale for $149.

 

[dpham00]

Software updates need to get sorted out as well, and soon.

I really hope so. The issue of it not being update able on all 6x or whatever is rediculous especially since these are unlocked phones. Huawei has full control here

 

[dpham00]

That's just insane battery life!

Yes it is. And that's without using the battery mod which gets even more battery life

 

[worldspy99]

I really hope so. The issue of it not being update able on all 6x or whatever is rediculous especially since these are unlocked phones. Huawei has full control here

Yup. And to add salt to the wounds they don't even push the security patch updates as well. That bothers me more than OS updates.

 

[worldspy99]

I am not even sure that will happen. The honor 6x is still $199-249 on honor website today. It is $199 retail on Amazon though on sale for $149.

They fully know that people aren't going to buy last year's version though.

 

[djrakowski]

Software updates need to get sorted out as well, and soon.

I agree... I might overlook some of its other shortcomings (like not having the same range of radio frequencies as the Moto G series) if I knew it’d at least get semi-regular security updates.

 

[worldspy99]

I agree... I might overlook some of its other shortcomings (like not having the same range of radio frequencies as the Moto G series) if I knew it’d at least get semi-regular security updates.

Agreed. No security patch updates is probably the biggest downside of purchasing a Huawei device.

 

[dpham00]

Yup. And to add salt to the wounds they don't even push the security patch updates as well. That bothers me more than OS updates.

Let's be honest. At $199, it's acceptable to do quaertrly updates, assuming that they get it working right.but flagship should be monthly

 

[dpham00]

They fully know that people aren't going to buy last year's version though.

Of course, my point is though that they aren't willing to drop the 6x MSRP even though the 7x came out. Of course it's on sale at other retailers.

 

[dpham00]

I agree... I might overlook some of its other shortcomings (like not having the same range of radio frequencies as the Moto G series) if I knew it’d at least get semi-regular security updates.

Unfortunately that is the big question. and any promises by Huawei isn't going to mean much since they promised the honor 5x quarterly updates and we all know how well that turned out

 

[worldspy99]

Let's be honest. At $199, it's acceptable to do quaertrly updates, assuming that they get it working right.but flagship should be monthly

I agree. Right now things are maybe a yearly security patch, lol.