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A new Android phone has been introduced with very spectacular specs for the price, and it’s obtainable now within the UK. The Honor X6c prices simply £129.99 however boasts a 120Hz screen, 50MP important digital camera, giant battery and 128GB storage – specs that match or beat the £799 iPhone 16.

Those specs will also be seen on the £799 Samsung Galaxy S25, which has three 50MP cameras and the identical storage. Admittedly the Honor has only one rear digital camera, however I applaud the firm for less than utilizing one on a gadget that prices this little. Rival Android makers typically slap paltry 2MP lenses onto their finances telephones to declare they’ve two or three cameras, however the outcomes are sometimes dreadful.

Then again, a take a look at the back of the X6c and Honor has designed it to appear like it has three cameras. It doesn’t! There is a QVGA sensor to help with portrait photographs, and that’s it. The 50MP shooter can shoot video up to 1080p, and has Honor’s AI software program inbuilt to help improve photographs by erasing undesirable people or objects.

In truth, there are different AI instruments inbuilt too together with image object identification, textual content summarisation and textual content translation, all accessible through the phone’s devoted AI button on the left edge.

The selfie digital camera received’t be a lot to write home about at 5MP, but it surely’ll work for video calls and fast snaps.

Around the entrance is a 6.61-inch 120Hz LCD screen. A clue that this phone has cut a few corners to obtain its cut price basement price is the very fact this isn’t an OLED screen. But if all you need or need out of your phone is to call, textual content, use banking apps and social media and noddle round on e-mail, you might not thoughts. It’s additionally solely 720p, which is kind of low decision for 2025.

OLED screens offer brighter colors and higher decision, however use more energy. If you worth battery life, Honor’s low energy screen and huge 5,300mAh battery could possibly be a successful mixture. The firm says you’ll eke 60 minutes of call time out of 2 p.c charge, so hopefully this factor goes and goes.

It even costs at 35W speeds with the fitting charger, which is quicker than the Galaxy S25, which is proscribed to simply 25W speeds. You can shortly grab 18 p.c charge with a 10 minute plug in.

Unlike many more costly telephones, the Honor X6c is supplied with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor constructed into the facility button. I typically desire this to in-screen sensors, and it’s rarer to see it lately. Speaking of uncommon, the phone even has a 3.5mm headphone jack, so don’t throw these wired earbuds away simply but.

Add to that IP64 water and dirt resistance and an SGS drop resistance certification and you’ve got a phone that has cut a few corners to attain its price level however one with a spec sheet that shoots above that price.

If you need one of the most affordable Android telephones within the UK, that is one of them – simply don’t count on good efficiency. The MediaTek Helio G81 Ultra processor is kind of low-powered, so this isn’t a phone in order for you to play tons of demanding cell video games.