The Honor X50 is the first ever Android smartphone to debut with the new SGS five-star certification for drop resistance. It also offers 16GB of RAM for less than US$300, and has 5G thanks to its mid-range, if first-gen, Qualcomm chipset. The X50 has also launched with a 120Hz 1.5K AMOLED display kept on with an unusually generous 5,800mAh battery.
Move over, MIL-STD-810H: Honor asserts that the new SGS 5-star rating is the new independently-tested durability rating to watch out for. The OEM’s 10th-anniversary X-series smartphone has secured the glory of introducing it to the market thanks to a new, custom “Taiji cushioning architecture”.
It applies to the X50’s corners and 7.98mm high curved edges as well as its screen and rear panel, the latter of which sports a new take on the latest Honor X-series camera hump.
Its thin concentric rings take up a lot of space to house just 2 rear cameras: a 108MP ISOCELL HM6 main shooter smartphone lumbered with a 2MP depth-sensor.
On the other side, however, the X50 potentially makes up for that with a 6.78-inch AMOLED display with a peak brightness of 1,200 nits and 100% DCI-P3 color gamut coverage.
Its on-trend specs are complemented by a 5,800mAh battery rated to keep it on for over 12 hours of “heavy use” and the latest version of MagicOS (7.1.1) based on Android 13.
Despite all that, the Honor X50 starts for just 1,399 yuan (~US$193) with 8GB of RAM – probably due to its Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 SoC and 128GB base-model internal storage capacity.
That spec does rise all the way to 512GB in the new smartphone’s top-end model, which is priced at 1,999 yuan (~US$276) from now on Honor’s Chinese-market webstore.
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