Honor X6a review: A wallet-friendly entry phone with an IP53 rating and a big screen.
Cheap, with an ingress rating.
X6a does the entry-phone basics — big battery, 90 Hz, the legacy ports — and adds an IP53 rating most rivals at the price skip. The Helio G36 is genuinely slow, so this is a phone for calls, messaging and light browsing, bought for the battery and the splash resistance.
01Display
56/10056/100 — right at the average for entry phones of 2023.
02Camera
48/10048/100 — right at the average for entry phones of 2023.
03Performance
40/10040/100 trails the 43-point cohort average for entry phones of 2023.
04Battery
78/10078/100 — right at the average for entry phones of 2023.
05Build
60/10060/100 puts it above the 58-point average for entry phones of 2023.
06Value
58/10058/100 trails the 62-point cohort average for entry phones of 2023.
- IP53 dust/splash rating is rare at $140.
- 5,000 mAh, 90 Hz, microSD + jack.
- 50 MP main.
- Has Google services.
- Helio G36 is very slow, 4G only.
- HD+ panel, 5 MP selfie.
- 22.5 W charging.
- Two filler lenses, one OS update.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 20-phone cohort of entry devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .