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so each of these phones is different in their own right you've got different processors different screens and different cameras all of them look premium in their own way but only one of these phones comes at a price so low that you can buy three of them for the price of any one of the others what's up guys David here and this is the honor 5x its honors first major entry into the US market and they're going all-out for that budget segment with the 5x featuring a premium look a top-notch fingerprint scanner a big 5.5 inch display a 13 megapixel camera and a 3000 milliamp battery all at a price point of just 200 bucks now I know you're thinking cuz I was thinking it back when honor invited us to the 5x s launch party and that is what's the catch where are they making up for the cost so for the past couple of weeks I've been testing this thing looking forward to me the trade-offs and I found them I hope you weren't expecting differently at $200 but it's actually not that bad the 13 megapixel camera does great when outdoors and it's more than enough for things like Instagram and snapchat but it doesn't suffer a bit in low-light the speaker is a little tinny and the performance up from the Snapdragon 615 isn't quite as snappy as I was hoping you to be there's also no end of seeing no quick charging and phone only comes with android 5.1 out of the box but honor says is going to be getting updated marshmallows sometime in the future now those are the main trade-offs for this fall but again we're talking about a $200 phone and really if the trade-offs that honor didn't make that really make the phone shine you've got this brushed aluminum back complete with chamfered edges that really give the phone a high-end feel that you just don't get on any other phone in this price range and you also have a fingerprint scanner right where your finger naturally rests now having a fingerprint scanner in it of itself is an achievement for a $200 phone but it's actually a good fingerprint scanner with great accuracy and speed the fingerprint scanner can even be customized to do things like launching straight into different apps with different fingers and also used to swipe down the notification bar it's pretty legit and I would totally trade this fingerprint scanner for the one on my note 5 the 5.5 inch display on the 5x is a 1080p IPS panel that gives you surprisingly good sharpness and colors it's only nucky best display out there but it's probably the best display that you can get at the $200 price point the 3000 milliamp battery combined with honors Mui optimizations will easily last you a full day and it gets charged via a micro USB port which on a budget phone is actually a good thing since you'll have to go out and buy all-new USB type-c accessories the 5x comes with 16 gigabytes of internal storage which luckily is expandable via microSD you also get dual SIM slots and the phone comes factory unlocked so you can just pop in any SIM card and be good to go there are three color options available in gold silver and grey and the phone is being sold exclusively online so I'll be dropping a link for you down below in the description and I guess the last thing worth noting is the emui interface which to me feels a lot like iOS since it doesn't have a launcher like you normally do on Android and instead it just has home screens I'm also not the biggest fan of the color scheme and the icons but since this is Android you can just slap a new launcher like Google now or Nova on the phone and just forget about it but overall the honor 5x is a budget phone that makes some pretty good trade-offs and has the important stuff like build quality screen quality battery life camera and the fingerprint scanner done really well and it ditches some of the less important things like NFC and quick charging to help keep the cost low anyways that is it for me in this video big things to honor for inviting us out to Vegas and for sponsoring our CES trip thank you guys for watching in as always I'll see you in the very next episode