Honor 9 Lite was launched in Sapphire blue, Glacier Grey and Midnight Black colors last month starting at Rs. 10,999. Today the company has announced that the Glacier Grey version will finally available from next sale exclusively on Flipkart.
Earlier this week the company has announced that the phone was sold out in 120 seconds in the fourth sale, once the sale opened at 12 noon, same as the previous sale. On the first sale, the phone sold out in record 6 minutes of the sale opening, selling at a the rate of over 150 units per second on January 21st midnight and it sold out in 3 minutes in the second sale on January 21st 12 noon.
The phone packs a 5.65-inch full HD+ full-screen display with 18:9 aspect ratio, is powered by Kirin 659 SoC, runs on Android 8.0 (Oreo) with EMUI 8.0 out-of-the-box. It has a 13-megapixel front and rear cameras along with a secondary 2-megapixel rear camera to capture depth information for portrait shots. It has a metal frame, glass back with a fingerprint sensor that can unlock the phone in 0.25 seconds, and packs a 3000mAh battery.
The company will hold fifth sale of the Honor 9 Lite on Flipkart at 12PM next Tuesday, February 6th.
Check out our Honor 9 Lite review, if you are planning to buy the phone.
Regarding the sales, P Sanjeev, Vice President, Sales, Huawei Consumer Business Group, said:
The success of Honor 9 Lite has been a source of enthusiasm and motivation for the Honor team. We now aspire to surpass the consumer expectations, be it technological innovation or device make-up, we aim to please both our new and old consumers. Honor registered a 3X growth in Q4 of 2017 as compared to Q4 of 2016 owing to our best seller devices and we are confident to continue to momentum with best in class products like Honor 9 Lite. With this grey variant in the market, we hope to not only expand the Honor 9 Lite portfolio but also continue the winning streak. Ever since the first sale, we have witnessed unparalleled consumer response, which has propelled Honor 9 Lite’s stature as one of the best-selling smartphones from Honor’s portfolio this year.