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

Caterpillar S60: World’s toughest Smart Phone

Caterpillar has announced new phone S60 which can easily be crowned as world’s toughest and most rugged smart phone. The Best part is that it is also the world’s first smart phone that comes with an integrated thermal imaging camera. A feature that is really new to every smart phone user in world.

CAT S60 World's Toughest Phone

The thermal imaging camera feature the Lepton sensor made by Flir, the world’s leading thermal imaging manufacturer. You can take a thermal image in VGA resolution i.e. 640*480 and record videos. As this isn’t a high resolution but using this you can measure the surface temperatures, shot images in absolute dark and in smokes filled locations.

This phone is also water resistant in depth of up to 5m. It can remain operation there for an hour. So you can also use the phone with wet hands and in rain without any fear.

Phone screen is also protected with 1mm thick gorilla glass 4 protective layer. This makes the phone screen resistant to scratches. Thanks to its all hard steel body you can drop this from an height of 5 feet without any hesitation.

 CAT 360

Along with thermal imaging this phone also had a 13MP normal camera in back and a 5MP front facing camera. Inside phone comes with 617 snapdragon chipset and latest android 6.0 Marshmallow.
For smooth multitasking it has 3GB of RAM. It has an expandable 32GB storage and screen size of 4.7’ with 720P resolution and a powerful battery of 3800mAh which will provide you enough juice for daily use.
This phone is specially designed for the personnel of the construction companies and law enforcement agencies, where the environment does not suits any conventional smart phones. So despite the fact that the hardware of the phone is not that great due to its tough design and unique feature like thermal imaging camera, water resistant body and steel frame phone really appeals to the people who wants a really tough smart phone it there pocket that has immunity to accidental drops on roads and in water.

Cat S60 key features:

• Thermal imaging camera, powered by FLIR
• Strengthened Die Cast Frame
• Drop proof to 1.8m, MIL Spec 810G
• Super bright display (typical 540 nits), Gorilla Glass 4
• 4.7” HD capacitive multi-touch with auto wet finger & glove support
• Optimised battery performance (3800mAh)
• Underwater 13MP main camera with dual flash, 5MP front-facing camera
• 4G LTE
• Snapdragon 617 Octa-core processor
• 32GB ROM, 3GB RAM
• Android Marshmallow

Price and Availablilty

The latest flagship device from Cat phones will be announced at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona and it will be available in price range of 600 dollars.
Source: CAT Phones