This article was published on February 4, 2015

Honor launches Holly, a £110 Android smartphone but pre-register and you’ll get it for less


Honor launches Holly, a £110 Android smartphone but pre-register and you’ll get it for less

Huawei-owned mobile brand Honor has today launched its third smartphone, called ‘Holly’, following on from the Honor 6 and 3C.

Honor_HollyThe Honor Holly offers a 5-inch 720p display, 16GB of storage and a quad-core 1.3Ghz processor paired with 1GB RAM to keep things ticking over nicely. It also comes with dual SIM slots as standard. Software-wise, it will run Android 4.4 out of the box.

On the rear of the device is an 8-megapixel F2.0 aperture camera sensor, and on the front is a 2-megapixel affair. The company says that there are also five sets of optical lenses, improved light capture and a macro mode.

It may be new to the UK, but the Honor Holly has already been available in China and other markets since the end of 2014.

While Honor has a rough price in mind – £109.99 (around $167) – it says that will drop for customers who register their interest between February 6 and February 23.

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The price will be announced on February 23 and will then be offered for sale at that price until February 26. After this, it will go back up to the £110 retail price. People who do register their interest are under no obligation to actually buy one once they become available though.

Check back for our quick hands-on with the device later.

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