Honor announces X5ds in South Africa at R2,499

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Honor has officially launched the X5ds in South Africa, a budget phone with a secondary rear display and a 6,000mAh battery.

Honor has officially announced the X5ds in South Africa, priced at R2,499 (about $150). The phone comes with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, and runs Android 16 Go on a Unisoc T610 chipset.

The X5ds packs a 6,000mAh battery with 15W charging. It also has a 2.01-inch LCD secondary rear screen with a 240 x 296 resolution, which works as a selfie viewfinder and shows call alerts and music controls.

The front display is a 6.78-inch LCD with a 720 x 1576 resolution, up to a 120Hz refresh rate, and 600 nits typical brightness. The 50MP main camera has an f/1.8 aperture, up to 4x digital zoom, and a single LED flash, while the front sensor is 5MP. Both cameras record video at up to 1080p.

The Unisoc T610 has two Cortex-A75 cores and six Cortex-A55 cores clocked at up to 1.8GHz. The phone offers 4GB of RAM plus a further 4GB of virtual memory and 64GB of internal storage, with a dedicated microSD slot in a three-card tray that accepts cards up to 1TB. It ships with Android 16 Go and unlocks with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.

Connectivity covers 4G LTE, dual nano-SIMs, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, GPS, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The handset measures 168.3 x 78.5 x 8.72mm, weighs about 214g, and has an IP52 rating. It comes in colors including Forest Green and Midnight Black in South Africa, and Honor has not announced whether it will reach other markets.

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