Honor X6b Plus Globally Unveiled with 5200mAh Battery, Helio G85, and 50MP Camera

Honor X6b Plus is the company’s new budget phone with 4G connectivity. It just landed in the Philippines and has plenty going for it in terms of specs. The phone is a close relative of the Honor X5c and X7d, which are coming to Pakistan next month. This newcomer seems to be priced between those two models. Here are all the details we have on the X6b Plus.

This phone is a bit chunky at 8.39mm, though it has a big 5200mAh battery to make up for it. The design is flat, with upright side rails and sharp edges. It looks premium enough for the entry-level segment. A faux camera design is also not unusual to see at this price.  

This device only has one functioning camera; the others are just decorative pieces. Honor X6b Plus shoots with a 50MP main sensor. Plus, there’s a 5MP selfie camera up front, which only provides serviceable images. Other than that, there’s nothing special about this camera. 

The front shooter of the Honor budget new mobile sits in a drop notch in the TFT display. It has a dynamic notification system around that notch, which they call Magic Capsule. This TFT 6.56” panel has been advertised with a 780 nits peak brightness, so it should have decent readability under the sun.

This is just an average TFT screen with 16.7 million colors and a 720p resolution, but there’s one likeable quality about this LCD, which is a 90Hz refresh rate. Performance-wise, the phone gets you a MediaTek Helio G85 chip, an old 12nm entry-level platform.

It has two Cortex A75 cores at 2.0GHz speed and 8GB RAM to handle multitasking. The X6b Plus even gives you 256GB built-in storage. But it has a far too old Android 14 Magic OS 8 system out of the box, something you should consider before buying this handset.   

Slightly older operating system aside, the X6b Plus is built around a solid 5200mAh battery, and linked with a 35W SuperCharge input support. There’s dual-band WiFi here and a single speaker. SGS gave it a drop safety rating, but no IP rating was mentioned. Price-wise, the phone sits at ~$118 (~PKR 33,000).