4 awesome reasons why the Honor 6x is the perfect travel companion

Your long awaited holiday is finally here. To paraphrase a popular song – ‘Your bags are packed and you’re ready to go!’. You’ve bought the plane tickets and have gotten a travel itinerary jotted down to the hour with every culinary delight, cultural hotspot and shopping haven marked out on a map in such exacting detail that it would put the planning for the Normandy invasion to shame. Back in the old days, this attention to detail also means toting around a sheaf of documents the thickness of a phonebook all over the place and woe betide you if it ever gets wet. That’s just the planning part though. Unless you’re some ultra hardcore survivalist, you’re going to need to tote around clothing. If it’s winter where you’re heading, you’ll need more. A lot more.

Seeing as it’s a holiday, you’ll also need something to commemorate the occasion: ergo, a camera. You’ll also need a way to figure out where north is and how to get about with those maps; yup, you’ll need a GPS too. That and all that gear doesn’t run on fresh air and sunshine – it’s going to need juice to keep it all powered. Sure, you can max out your luggage quota but if you’re travelling on a budget airline, there’s only so much you can carry and let’s face it folks, you’re here on a holiday, not a home relocation exercise so it really isn’t much fun to haul around a good chunk of your worldly goods around as well as keeping an eye on them either.
Fortunately, bar the clothing, all of this additional impedimenta to travelling can be handily solved by the handy provision of tech – enter the Honor 6x. The latest addition to their line-up, the Honor 6X brings a lot of tech goodness to the table for the price of entry.

The Honor 6X comes in your choice of grey, silver and gold for the 3GB RAM and 32GB of storage space variant which clocks in at RM1,199. If you’d like something with a bit more oomph, the Honor 6X also comes in a more powerful configuration with 4GB RAM and 64GB of expandable storage with a similar array of colours. The Honor 6X in both variants is now available nationwide, on Lazada as well as at their retail partners at DirectD, SenHeng Malaysia and the Honor Concept store at Lowyat Plaza.  

1 –Entertaining Diversions – Generously sized 5.5-inch 1080P LCD display
No matter how awesome the holiday is, there are bound to be periods of interminable waiting when you have to wait for someone or something to happen. Whether it’s chilling around waiting for your bae to finish their shopping or killing time at the departure lounge, you’ll still need to keep yourself entertained in some fashion. Unfortunately, ‘I spy with my little eye’ can only go so far and thumb twiddling was out of fashion after the Renaissance so you’ll need something to do.

Fortunately, the Honor 6X is quite a dab hand at keeping you entertained whether it’s for gaming or watching preloaded movies. The large  5.5-inch IPS LCD Full HD touchscreen has a respectable 403ppi to serve up great detail and vibrant colours onscreen. If you’re a savvy traveller, you’ll already have downloaded some entertaining offline games on your phone and also preloaded the latest flicks off iFlix so you can remain suitably entertained like a boss whether you’re in downtown Milan or in the jungles of Borneo.

2 – Exceptional Battery Life – Large 3,340mAh battery
You can have a smartphone that can do everything under the sun and have performance out the wazoo but if you have to nurse it to last through the day lest it run out of battery life, there’s not much point now is there? Fortunately, the Honor 6x is ideally suited for holidays and trips abroad as it packs a large 3,340mAh battery that can keep it going for over a day and a half of heavy usage and a stupendous 2.15 days of average usage.

If you’re splitting straws, a fully charged Honor 6x is capable of running a whopping 70 hours of music and 11 hours of video before needing a recharge so you’re able to use it to its fullest potential. This endurance can even be further enhanced with the provision of a built-in power saving mode. If needs must, you can kick in an Ultra Power saving mode that hews down everything to only the bare essentials – calls and texts to keep it going for days on end. It even has 5V/2A fast charging too so you can top it up in a jiffy. Even if you’re running it the phone at full tilt, the efficient design of the Honor 6x’s processor means it emits less heat and drains less juice, further enhancing battery life. So yes, there’s no need to haul around a ton of power banks on your next jaunt with the Honor 6X.

3 – Awesome Snaps Every Time – Rear 12-MP+2-MP dual camera

A good camera can make the difference between a memorable picture of you on holiday or a smudged, blurry looking blob on Facebook. While most phones in its price range place camera quality as an afterthought, the Honor 6X prioritises it as it is  the only budget smartphone so far that sports a potent dual lens camera that consists of a 12-MP sensor with a large 1.25 µm pixel sizewith Phase Detection Autofocus along with a SONY IMX386 sensor  paired with a 2-MP sensor on the rear for excellent imaging performance.

The second camera isn’t just there for show, it’s there to allow for gorgeous defocused shots so that a subject in the foreground looks crisp and detailed while the background is beautifully blurred out like what you’d see in professional higher-end cameras. You can even tweak this as needed as the Honor 6X has a selectable wide aperture range from F/0.95 to F/16 so you can determine just how much focus you want on a picture. When opportunity strikes, you’re fast on the draw too as the camera has a blazing fast 0.3 autofocus time and Full HD video capture too. End result: happy memories and share-worthy snaps for all.

4 – Silky Smooth Performance – Efficient Kirin 655 2.1GHz octacore processor

Holidays are meant to be stress free affairs and that also extends to the gear that you’re carrying with you too as they’re supposed to reduce your worries, not increase them tenfold. On top of a fetching aluminium casing, a dual lens rear camera and a huge 5.5-inch touchscreen, the Honor 6x aims to seal the deal with a 16-nanometer HiSilicon Kirin 655 octacore 2.1GHz processor paired with 3GB RAM and 32GB of expandable storage.

The immensely capable Kirin 655 processor is hewn by Huawei’s own HiSilicon chip foundry  and is capable of tackling everything asked of it and more in a smooth fashion. From gaming to web browsing and even getting you about via Google Maps all the way to hassle-free Skype calls with friends and family back home, the Kirin 655 octacore processor sorts it out in seconds. Added to this is Honor’s slick EMUI 4.1 user interface that makes getting about the menus an intuitive affair. That’s not all, EMUI 4.1 also integrates a host of battery efficient tweaks and the ability to to manage your power usage settings with just one press of a button to make it the epitome of efficiency and performance.