Huawei launched the Honor 8 Pro in India today and the company revealed their mid-range smartphone that has a dual camera setup, a massive 4,000 mAh battery and 6GB of RAM. The retail box of the Honor 8 Pro can also be used as a makeshift VR headset. 

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The smartphone will be available in two colours i.e. Navy Blue and Midnight Black. The smartphone has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and has 128 GB of internal storage. The Honor 8 Pro will be launching in India for Rs 29,999 and will be competing directly with the OnePlus 5. The OnePlus 5, with a similar configuration, is priced at Rs 32,999 which is significantly higher when compared. 

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The Honor 8 is going to be sold exclusively on Amazon.in and will be available to buy exclusively for Amazon Prime members starting July 10th at 6:00 PM. Open sales will commence on 12:00 AM on July 13th and HDFC cardholders can avail 15 percent cash back as well. Launch offers also include 45GB of free data for Vodafone users and other benefits such as no-cost EMI options. 

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The device has a dual camera setup with 12-megapixel sensors where one is RGB and the other is for monochrome shots. The front-facing camera has an 8-megapixel sensor and runs on Android 7.0 Nougat with Huawei's EMUI 5.1 on top.

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The 4,000 mAh battery is believed to give users up to 1.4 days of battery life with excessive use and 2 days with moderate/normal use. The smartphone has an accelerometer sensor, ambient light sensor and a gyroscope sensor on board. The smartphone weighs 184 grams and its dimensions measure 157x77.5x6.97mm. 

The Honor 8 Pro will face some stiff competition from companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Vivo and Oppo and hopes to break the barrier with their latest dual-camera smartphone.