Love it or return it: Honor 20 available on Flipkart with 90% buyback offer

Priced at Rs 32,999, the Honor 20 will be available in sapphire blue and midnight black colours. The Flipkart-exclusive smartphone that will also be available on offline stores

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei’s sub-brand Honor recently unveiled the Honor 20-series in India. The series includes the Honor 20 Pro, Honor 20 and Honor 20i. While the Honor 20 Pro’s sale details are yet to come out and the Honor 20i is on sale from June 18, the Honor 20 goes on sale from June 25. Priced at Rs 32,999, the phone will be available in sapphire blue and midnight black colours. The Flipkart-exclusive smartphone will also be available on offline stores.

90 per cent buy back offer details

As part of launch offer, Honor is providing 90 per cent buy back guarantee on the Honor 20. In the buy back, the company would refund 90 per cent value of the phone if customer decides to return it within 90 days from the date of purchase. Called ‘Love it or return it challenge’, the buyback offer is subject to terms and conditions.

Honor 20 launch offers

The Honor 20 is eligible for no-cost equated monthly instalments, which start as low as Rs 5,500 per month on select debit and credit cards. Additionally, the Honor 20 comes bundled with a Reliance Jio cashback offer worth Rs 2,200. The cashback is valid only for Jio users. To avail the cashback, users need to recharge with either Rs 198 or 299 to get a cashback in the form of recharge vouchers. These vouchers can be redeemed, one at a time, against subsequent recharges of Rs 198 and Rs 299 via MyJio app only.

Honor 20 specifications and features

The Honor 20 is an identical twin of the Honor 20 Pro, albeit with different camera module, RAM and storage configurations and a lower capacity battery of 3,750 mAh. Powered by Kirin 980 system-on-chip, the phone comes with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage. This phone sports a 6.26-inch screen of a fullHD+ resolution, stretched in a tall 19.5:9 aspect ratio. The screen has a punch-hole design on the top-left corner accommodating its 32-megapixel front-facing camera. At the back, the phone has a quad-camera module of a 48MP sensor of an f/1.8 aperture, a 16MP ultra-wide lens, a 2MP macro lens, and a 2MP depth sensor.

Huawei prepares for 60% fall in international smartphone shipments: Report

In order to offset overseas decline, Huawei is aiming to grab up to half of China’s smartphone market in 2019

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is preparing for a 40 to 60 per cent decline in international smartphone shipments, Bloomberg reported on Sunday.The Chinese technology company is looking at options that include pulling the latest model of its marquee overseas smartphone, the Honor 20, according to the article, which cited people familiar with the matter.

Marketing and sales managers at the tech giant are internally expecting a drop in volumes of anywhere between 40 million to 60 million smartphones this year, the report said.The device will begin selling in parts of Europe, including Britain and France, on June 21, the report said. Executives will be monitoring the launch and may cut off shipments if the sales are poor, it said.

In order to offset overseas decline, Huawei is aiming to grab up to half of China’s smartphone market in 2019, Bloomberg said. The company did not respond to a Reuters request seeking comment. The US government put Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunications equipment company, on a trade blacklist in May that bars US suppliers from doing business with it because of what Washington says are national security concerns.

At the time, Huawei founder and chief executive Ren Zhengfei said the restrictions “may slow, but only slightly” the company’s growth. A similar US ban on China’s ZTE Corp, almost crippled business for Huawei’s smaller rival early last year before the curb was lifted.

The company’s woes are feeding into trade tensions between Washington and Beijing. President Donald Trump has said US complaints against Huawei could be resolved within the framework of any trade deal. The ban has been eased slightly to allow a temporary general license that lets Huawei purchase US goods. However, Broadcom sent a shockwave through the global chipmaking industry last week when it forecast that the US-China trade tensions and the Huawei ban would knock $2 billion off this year’s sales.