News & Reviews:   Huawei Honor 5A

This week on Weekly TechNave, Samsung Malaysia went entry-level in a big way with the official announcement of their Galaxy J 2016 series. Of note was the Samsung Galaxy J1 2016 priced at below RM450 but packing a free Yes 4G LTE SIM with 30GB of data preloaded for 2 months. Honor Malaysia officially revealed the more powerful and beautiful honor 5C for RM799 while the Xiaomi Mi 5 finally landed in Malaysia for RM1549 at non-online shops.

So it's official, the Huawei Honor 5A was just announced in China and it's aimed at the young generation for budget purpose, coming in both plastic body and metal frame versions in white, gold, yellow, pink, blue, and black. As a budget phone, it starts at just 699 Yuan (around RM434), while the full network variant and the dual netcom variant retails for 799 Yuan (around RM497). The sale launch of the Honor 5A will happen on June 17 at JD.com and Huawei’s own online store in China. Below is the official tech-specs (it's not complete):

Just a few hours ago, Huawei Honor just released a new teaser image on their official Weibo page announcing a new smartphone on the way in China - The Honor 5A, which will be revealed on 12 June 2016. And it's not alone, the Honor 5A Plus will also be present on that day. Below is the specifications according to TENAA: