Rotating cameras are not new. Oppo, Torque and SKK have several smartphones with this feature. However, Huawei has a slightly different rotating camera design with the Honor 7i.
Instead of a large rotating module, Huawei opted for a small one that contains the camera and its LED flash. It can be flipped so it can function as the front camera or upwards for a macro shot.
The Huawei Honor 7i is an all metal and glass smartphone with a 5.2-inch full HD display in a 7.8mm thin body.
It runs on the new Snapdragon 616 chipset from Qualcomm with two sets of quad core CPUs, Adreno 405 graphics renderer. There are two versions – a 32GB one with 3GB of RAM and another with half the storage and only 2GB of RAM.
| This is Emotion UI 3.1. |
As expected, the Huawei Honor 7i boots to Android 5.1 Lollipop with Huawei’s custom Android skin, Emotion UI 3.1, for the user interface.
It is a dual SIM smartphone with 4G LTE connectivity. The second SIM slot doubles as the microSD card slot though.
| Shoot 13MP selfies with the Huawei Honor 7i! |
The Huawei Honor 7i supports NFC and all the usual wireless connectivity features while a 3100mAh Lithium-Polymer battery powers the device. A finger print sensor is placed on its side which is actually more intuitive than in its home button.
Pricing and availability in the Philippines hasn’t been revealed yet.
