Honor X8a review: A 100 MP camera and slim looks on a tidy mid-budget phone.
A pretty, big-megapixel budget phone.
X8a pairs a slim body and a 100 MP sensor with a sharp FHD+ screen and — crucially, unlike its Huawei cousins — full Google services. The Helio G88 and slow charging are the limits. For a good-looking cheap phone that runs all your apps, it covers the basics.
01Display
64/10064/100 trails the 66-point cohort average for budget phones of 2023.
02Camera
60/10060/100 puts it above the 58-point average for budget phones of 2023.
03Performance
48/10048/100 trails the 53-point cohort average for budget phones of 2023.
04Battery
72/10072/100 is one of the weaker battery results among budget phones of 2023 — 7 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
66/10066/100 puts it above the 63-point average for budget phones of 2023.
06Value
64/10064/100 trails the 69-point cohort average for budget phones of 2023.
- 100 MP main and a sharp FHD+ panel.
- Slim 7.5 mm / 179 g.
- microSD + jack.
- Has Google services (unlike Huawei).
- Helio G88 is weak, 4G only.
- 22.5 W charging is slow.
- Single speaker, 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 232-phone cohort of budget devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .