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.

Huawei Honor 7i
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.

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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.

Specs:

  • 5.2-Inch Full HD IPS Display (1080 x 1920 Pixels, 424 ppi)
  • Scratch Resistant Glass
  • Android 5.1 Lollipop with Emotion UI 3.1
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 Chipset
  • 1.7GHz and 1.2GHz Quad Core Cortex-A53 CPUs
  • Adreno 405 GPU
  • 3GB/2GB of RAM
  • 13.0 Megapixel Autofocus Rotating Camera with Dual LED Flash
  • 32GB/16GB Internal Storage
  • Expandable Up to 128GB via MicroSD
  • Dual SIM
  • 4G LTE, 3G HSPA+, 2G EDGE and GPRS Networks
  • Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Hotspot
  • NFC Support
  • Bluetooth 4.0
  • GPS with A-GPS
  • FM Radio
  • USB OTG
  • MicroUSB 2.0
  • 3.5mm Audio Jack
  • Finger Print Sensor
  • Gyroscope
  • Accelerometer
  • Proximity Sensor
  • Ambient Light Sensor
  • 141.6 x 71.2 x 7.8 mm @ 160 g
  • 3100mAh Li-Po Battery (Non-removable)
Huawei Honor 7i