I’ve always liked Honor’s phones, especially the Honor View 20 and, more recently, the Honor 20 Pro too. The Honor “X” series is the brand’s mid-range category, and the newest member is the Honor 9X.

The Pro variant offers a more advanced Kirin 810 octa-core processor that would further boost the overall smartphone performance, but it’s more expensive than the basic Honor 9X; the rest of the ...

There’s a lot Honor will tell you about the “new” Honor 9X Pro, and a very crucial point that it probably won’t. It’ll be upfront about the fact the Honor 9X Pro won’t come with Google Mobile Services ...

Thunder and Lightning. Salt and Pepper. Ant and Dec. Some pairings seem destined to be together forever. But can you really have Android without Google? Huawei was forced to find out last year when a ...

Throughout 2019 we've seen an increase in really compelling mid-range phones with attractive buy-outright price tags. The Honor 9X is no different in that regard, but in Europe – following Huawei, its ...

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei and its sub-brand Honor are soon going to launch new handsets. Images of the upcoming Huawei Mate 30 Lite, Honor 9X and Honor 9X Pro have been spotted on Chinese ...

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For years, Honor has been carving out an identity separate yet connected to parent company Huawei. On the one hand, it naturally uses Huawei's technologies and resources, particularly the silicon and ...

Much like the global versions of the Mate 30 series, the HONOR 9X Pro doesn’t come with the Google Play Store pre-installed and lacks popular Google apps like Gmail and Maps. These can’t be easily ...

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Discounting the middling camera performance, the HONOR 9X Pro is a compelling overall package as far as hardware is concerned. However, the lack of Google services makes it incredibly hard to ...