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the owner 6x was released just over a year ago and was very well received for its 250 dollar price point it had impressive specs and became the phone to beat for budget-conscious buyers now honor is back with the 7x bringing an updated 2017 design better camera and faster processor but can it still compete with the other budget devices out today the honor 7x has a very premium look and feel much like the honor 8 Pro it uses an all-metal chassis with nicely rounded corners and it's near 6-inch display is still quite manageable thanks to minimal bezels while the screen isn't 2k that's fair enough for a budget device rather this is a full HD Plus LCD panel but it's got nice vivid colors and sufficiently high pixel density for most folks in keeping with 2017 trends the 5.9 3-inch screen uses an 18 to 9 aspect ratio with an 83% screen to body ratio that's up there with the flagship crowd while we've grown accustomed to this look on more expensive phones it's always nice to see on such an affordable device the current 659 octa-core chipset is paired with the mali t 830 GPU for some power sipping pixel pushing globally will see a 64 gig version with 4 gig of ram while the US will get 32 and 3 both versions have microSD expandable storage up to 256 gigabytes but neither is water-resistant and there's no wireless charging here nor NFC for Android pay like the 6x the honor 7x sports a dual lens camera the main shooter is 16 megapixels while the secondary 2 megapixel camera is there to provide portrait mode bokeh unfortunately this doesn't work quite as well as the more expensive competition and we were slightly disappointed with the depth effect however improvements can always be made later with a software update the 16 megapixel camera with phase detection autofocus lacks some color accuracy but otherwise holds up pretty well and is still capable of getting some nice-looking shots with good sharpness there's also a beefy 8 megapixel front facing camera with portrait mode for the selfie inclined as a fingerprint sensor around the back a single bottom firing speaker and that most elusive and sought-after of 2017 features the headphone jack battery capacity remains the same as the 6 X at 3340 milliamp hours charged via microUSB rather than USB type-c full cost-cutting purposes we'll bring you more amana seven x's battery and camera in the full review so stay tuned for that the honor 7x runs Android new get it launched with the usual promises of an update to Android Oreo as soon as possible it'll be available in black blue or gold and while we don't have official pricing yet the interweb rumor mill has it pegged in the low 200s but we'll give the honor 7x a full run for its money over the coming days it does make quite a good first impression from its contemporary design and full screen display to its metal build and dual cameras as cheap phones get increasingly good the feature gap between flagships and mid ranges continues to shrink even as price differences only seem to get bigger yana 7x is one of an increasing number of devices aiming to buck that trend and we're happy to see it thanks so much for joining us hit that like and subscribe button ring the bell for upload notifications download the android authority up so what's up on social and keep it locked to android authority comm because we are your source for all things Android