Earlier today, honor Malaysia has signed an official partnership with Shopee, a leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan to unveil the latest honor 9 Lite, which will be exclusively sold on the Shopee platform. This partnership will allow up to 9 million Shopee users in Malaysia to purchase the honor’s first quad-camera smartphone at RM699 (RRP RM749) on the Shopee platform for a limited time on 9th March 2018. honor is one of the newcomers featured on the Shopee Mall, which has a dedicated shopping portal that features more than 400 leading brands and official distributors.
“We are delighted to partner with honor for this exclusive honor 9 Lite launch. In the past few years, we have witnessed tremendous growth in the number of consumers buying electronics and in particular, smartphones online. We asre delighted to partner with honor to provide a greater variety of choices for consumers,” said Ian ho, regional Managing Director of Shopee. ” In line with our 2018 plans, we aim to forge more strategic partnerships with established brands to start selling their products on our platform. Being a major e-commerce player in the region, we aim to assist more brands to expand their reach online and to further grow their business by tapping on a wider customer base.”
The honor 9 Lite features a dual lens 13MP+2MP camera on both the front and rear, which lets users capture pristine and beautiful images anytime, anywhere. With an upgraded, customisable in-depth beautification feature and hardware level bokeh effects, this device has no punches pulled when it comes to portable photography.
Additionally, the honor 9 Lite is also designed with both aesthetics and function in mind, boasting a bezel-less 5.65-inch FullView HD Display screen and mirror-like glass finish with a high screen to body ratio, while it is jam-packed with performance crunchers such as a Kirin 659 processor with 3GB RAM and 32GB storage (expandable up to 256GB). Battery-wise it packs 3,000mAh battery which is able to provide users with a full days usage even during arduous usage.
The device will be available in Sapphire Blue and Glacier Gray. Shopee is also celebrating this launch with a selfie contest on Instagram from 12 to 31 March, with a chance for participants to win the all-new honor 9 Lite. all users have to do is upload their selfie with their BFF on Instagram and add a caption on why they think their BFF is beautiful, then tag @shopee_my with the hashtag #ShjopeeXhonor. 2 Lucky winners will be chosen for the grand prize while 10 winners will get to receive 10,000 Shopee coins each. Additionally, from 7-9March, Shopee users can also play the Facebook Live game to unlock the Code of Honor which lets you win an honor 9 Lite.