Honor has officially announced a new mid-ranger smartphone in the Chinese market dubbed as the Honor Play5 Vitality Edition (aka Honor Play5 Lite) which carries an affordable starting price of just 1,799 Yuan (US$282).
For starter, the Honor Play5 Vitality Edition builds around a 6.67” IPS LCD display that offers a FHD+ screen resolution topped with a smooth 120Hz refresh rate as well as DCI-P3 color gamut coverage for high color accuracy.
At the back of the phone, it features a humongous square-shaped camera island that houses a dual-cam setup comprising of a 64 megapixels main camera as well as a 2 megapixels depth sensor. This will be rounded out by a 16 megapixels selfie camera upfront.
Under the hood, the Honor Play5 Vitality Edition is backed by an octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 900 chipset which will be paired with 8GB RAM as well as an option between 128GB or 256GB built-in storage.
To power the phone through the day, there’s a respectable 4,300mAh battery with 66W fast-charging support which is certainly a nice feature to have on a mid-range phone.
Coming to the software side of things, the Honor Play5 Vitality Edition will boot on the Magic UI 4.2 (based on Android 11) out of the box. In the Chinese market, the device will be priced at 1,799 Yuan (US$282) and 1,999 Yuan (US$313) respectively for it’s 8GB+128GB and 8GB+256GB models.
