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Huawei GR5 (2017) Price, Specification And Review

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Huawei GR5 (2017) is the latest edition of an upgraded smartphone from Huawei that fall under the category of a budget smartphone and still parade amazing specs sheets with a dual rear camera, large inbuilt storage, fingerprint scanner just to name a few. You will come to know more about this phone as you read further.

Huawei GR5 (2017)
Huawei GR5 (2017) Specs And Key Features

  • Display: 5.5-inch, IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 1920 X 1080 pixels (401 ppi)
  • Processor: Octa-core HiSilicon Kirin 655 CPU with 3GB
  • Camera: Dual 12MP + 2MP rear camera and 8MP front camera
  • Memory: 32GB/64GB built-in storage, up to 256GB with a memory card
  • Network: 4G LTE
  • Fingerprint sensor (rear)
  • Battery: 3,340mAh nonremovable Li-Po battery.

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Design and Display.

The Huawei GR5 (2017) sports a nice body design but not premium that will fit any individuals. It has a bezel which is obvious on the front top and bottom with the logo cited on the bottom bezels and then the front selfie is sited on the top right corner of the bezels. Turning to the back is a rounded dual snapper that stuck to each other and beside them is an LED flash, below is a fingerprint scanner. This phone looks like the Honor 6X. It has a screen size of 5.5-inch with full HD LCD display and a resolution of 1920 X 1080 pixels with 401ppi density.

Camera and Storage.

The Huawei GR5 (2017) has a triplets camera set up. It has a dual rear camera of 12MP + 2MP which features an LED flash, and high-quality videos recording capability. On the front, it has a front facing camera of 8MP which will snap beautiful photos. The inbuilt storage of this smartphone varies, the Huawei GR5 (2017) has 32GB of storage or 64GB of inbuilt storage depending on the model and you can expand the storage space to 256GB using a micro SD card.

Huawei GR5 (2017)
Hardware and software.

Landing with a Huawei’s Kirin chipset, this smartphone has a decent HiSilicon Kirin 655 processor with eight cores running at 1.7GHz and a respectable RAM of 3GB or 4GB under the hood. It’s powered by EMUI 5.0 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with a battery capacity of 2, 900mAh. There is a rear mounted fingerprint scanner for security and 4G data for browsing with WiFi for wireless connection among others.

Huawei GR5 (2017) Price

The Huawei GR5 (2017) will be selling at a price of $242.

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General features of Huawei GR5 (2017)

Here are the few Features and specs of Huawei GR5 (2017)
Operating System: Android 6.0 Marshmallow (EMUI 4.1)
Internal memory: 32GB/64GB
External memory: Yes up to 128GB.
RAM: 3GB/4GB.
BUILD and DESIGN
Processor: Octa-Core 4 × 2.1 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 + 4 × 1.7 GHz ARM Cortex-A53 (HiSilicon Kirin 655 )
Dimension: 150.9 x 72.6 x 8.2 mm
GPU: Mali-T830 MP2.
SIM Type: Dual Nano-SIM
weight: 162g.
DISPLAY
Screen size: 5.5-inch.
Screen Resolution: 1080 X 1920 pixels.
Screen protection:
Screen Resolution Density: 401ppi.
Display Type: IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen.
LED flash: Yes.
COLORS
Gold, Gray, Silver
CAMERA
Rear: Dual 12MP + 2MP camera, 1080p Video@30fps.
Front: 8MP camera, 720p Video@30fp.
Main camera features: Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection, HDR, panorama
NETWORK
2G GSM: Yes
3G WCDMA: Yes.
3G WCDMA EVDO: No
4G LTE: Yes, LTE : 800 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 MHz
CONNECTIVITY
WLAN: Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band
wi-fi hotspot: Yes.
Bluetooth: Yes, Bluetooth v4.2
GPS: Yes.
Infrared Blaster: Yes.
Bluetooth tethering: Yes.
USB Tethering: Yes.
USB port: Yes, MicroUSB 2.0.
INTERNET
HSPA+: Yes.
GPRS: Yes.
EDGE: Yes.
3G/WCDMA/HSPA/NFC: Yes.
4G LTE: Yes.
ENTERTAINMENT
Music Player: MP3/AAC+/WAV/Flac player.
Video player: MP4/H.264 player.
FM Radio: Yes.
Loudspeaker: Yes.
Ear Phone jack: Yes.
Instant Messaging: Yes.
SMS, MMS: Yes.
Push Email: Yes.
SENSOR
fingerprint: Yes.
Digital Compass: Yes
Accelerometer: Yes.
Proximity Sensor: Yes.
Light Sensor: Yes.
Barometer: -.
Heart Rate Monitor: -.
Gyroscope: Yes.
Iris Scanner: No.
Face Unlock:
Intelligent Digital Assistant: -.
Voice Control: yes.
Other features
Navigation: Yes, with A-GPS, GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou
Map: Yes.
Water Resistant: No.
Dust Resistant: No
Wireless Charging: No.
Video Streaming: Yes.
Active Noise Cancellation: Yes.
BATTERY
Capacity: 3,340mAh non removable Li-Po battery.
Talk Time:
Standby Time:
Browsing Time:
Music play Time: -.
Charging Time:
fast charging: Yes

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