Honor needed no fanfare to release its latest entry-level smartphones – X5b and X5b Plus. The devices are available in several Middle East markets; as the names suggest, they are closely related. Honor did make the Plus slightly better, but similarities are more than the differences.
Honor X5b and X5b Plus have an LTE-only Helio G36 chipset and run Android 14 with MagicOS 8.0 on top. The screen is a basic 6.56″ LCD with a waterdrop notch, 720p resolution and 90 Hz refresh rate.
The selfie camera mounted inside the notch has a 5 MP sensor. Around the back there are 50 MP main…