Why not to buy Honor 5X in Pakistan

 Currently Chines manufacturer Huawei is gaining worldwide popularity. In fact it is the third most successful cell phone maker after the Samsung and Apple. At the moment, it offers many different mobile phones with unique features and good build quality in many different price ranges. Honor 5X is its one of new phones that comes with a premium finish and a price that is affordable to most people.

Honor 5X is 85$ more costly in Pakistan

Unfortunately its low price which is the main advantage of 5X in all other markets is not a benefit in Pakistan, thanks to ridiculously high price set by Huawei in Pakistan. Honor 5X has an official price tag of 29000PKR, which at time moment is equal to 285USD.

In other markets like Europe and India its price in 199USD and 12999INR. So obviously its price in Pakistan casts about 85USD or 8900 Pakistani rupees more. Definitely this high price is a deal breaker and it’s really unjust to charge about 50% more per peace then other markets.

Perhaps you might suppose that this price hike is imposed due to high amount of taxes imposed by the Pakistani government. But if this is true, then why Google Nexus 6P which is built by Huawei for the internet search joint has almost same prices in Pakistan as in any other country.

The price of 64GB version of Google/Huawei Nexus 6P was 42999 Indian rupees at its launch, this amount is equivalent to 67000 Pakistani rupees and its price is Pakistan was 72000PKR, so price difference was about 5000 only which is due to high amount of taxes on mobile imports. So a prices difference of 9000PKR is really a deal breaker.

Conclusion

If you are in Pakistan and want to buy Honor 5X with your hard earned cash then be patient and please step back. Its price in Pakistan is higher than other international markets and its shame that instead of facilitating a company like Huawei is looting our people.

Alternative

So you might question what the best alternative to Honor 5X is. To me it is Oppo F1. Fine F1 by Oppo has a decent camera of 13MP and 8MP front facing camera for selfie lovers. And its price is 16000 INR in India which nicely matches to its prices in Pakistan which is around 26000PKR.

Oppo Find F1 is also all metal body and 30$ cheaper in Pakistan