Honor 8A Prime Flaunting MediaTek Helio P35!

Arjun Agarwal
2 min readMay 7, 2020

The processor is considered the heart and soul of a smartphone. It is responsible for the efficiency and performance of a smartphone. There are people who chooses a smartphone on the basis of aspects such as looks and design of the phone, the camera set up or most importantly the price of the phone. However, there are also people who are interested in knowing what goes inside the smartphone and what makes the performance of a smartphone good or bad, and that’s where the processor takes an entry.

The brand has launched the Honor 8A Prime with a price tag of around Rs.9,600 which fits right into the budget segment offering option to the consumers of a budget phone with top-notch features and an efficient and powerful processor without asking to make any sorts of compromises on the looks, design or on the performance of the smartphone.

The Honor 8A Prime is powered by the extremely power-efficient and reliable MediaTek Helio P35. It is an octa-core chipset that is built on TSMC’S advanced 12nm FinFET node featuring 4 cores clocked at 2.3GHz and 4 cores clocked at 1.8GHz along with 3GB of RAM. This enables a faster performance and a longer battery life of the smartphone which basically are two of the most important aspects of a good smartphone these days. We all know the importance of a good battery life and fast performance of a device we own.

MediaTek’s Helio P35 chipset supports LPDDR3 and LPDDR4x RAM (4GB and 6GB). It also supports dual 13MP cameras or a single 25MP camera along with a hardware depth engine for professional-level bokeh images, Rolling Shutter Compensation (RSC) and Electronic Image Stabilization. The smartphone also offers preloaded GMS (Google Mobile Services). Honor 8A Prime runs Android 9.0 Pie and is powered by 3020mAh non-removable battery. Granted, that the battery of Honor 8A Prime isn’t massive, however, it is just enough for a normal usage of a consumer without having to look for a charging point every now and then.

Honor 8A Prime runs EMUI 9.0 that is based on Android 9.0 Pie. Along with that, it packs 64GB of inbuilt storage that can be further expanded up to 512GB with a dedicated slot via a MicroSD card. The Honor 8A Prime is a dual-SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Nano-SIM and Nano-SIM cards.

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Arjun Agarwal

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