Huawei Honor 5X Review

Lisa Gade reviews Huawei's new very affordable unlocked GSM Android smartphone, the $199 Huawei Honor 5X. The aluminum-clad phone has a 5.5" full HD 1920 x 1080 IPS display, and it runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop with Huawei's Emotion UI 3.1 (EMUI) on the 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 octa-core CPU with Adreno 405 graphics. It has 2 gigs of RAM, 16 gigs of storage and a microSD card slot. This is a dual SIM 4G LTE phone that's compatible with GSM carriers such as T-Mobile and AT&T in the US, but not Sprint or Verizon. It has a 5MP front camera and a rear 13MP camera with stacked sensor, f/2.0 lens and an LED flash. The phone has a 3,000 mAh battery that's sealed inside.