A lot of Chinese brands come to Malaysia smart phone market in year 2014, Lenove AP penetrates the  low-end market; Oppo made a big noise in klcc while ASUS launched zenfone and get into the war. As world biggest ICT Company, Huawei seem like ready to take challenges to face them.
Recently, Huawei Malaysia Facebook page announce that Honor 3C is coming soon, together with a “guess the price” game and give 100 free units as prize for the winners. For now how much the price of honor 3C is the mystery, let have a guess with below analysis
First, let’s compare the product spec:

Module	Honor 3C	Galaxy Grand 2	Zenfone 5
CPU	Quad core 1.3 GHz	Quad core 1.2GHz	Dual core 1.7GHz
RAM	2G	1.5G	1G
ROM	8G	8G	8G
OS	Android 4.2	Android 4.3	Android 4.3

| Screen |5” HD(1280*720) LTPS OSG | 5.25”HD(1280*720) TFT | 5” HD(1280*720) IPS OSG  |   

Camera	8MP F2.0+5MP front	8MP AF+1.9MP front	8MP AF+0.3MP front
Battery	2300mAh	2600mAh	2110mAh(unmovable)
Size	139 x 71x 9.12mm	146.8 x 75.3 x 8.95 mm	148 x 72.8 x 10.3mm
Software	Emotion UI 2.0	TouchWiz UI	Zen UI
SIM	Dual SIM	Dual SIM	Dual SIM
Price	N/A	1199	599

From product benchmarks, we can consider Honor 3C in same range with Galaxy Grand 2 and Asus Zenfone 5, so let’s just check out the differences. For screen, Honor 3C is using a 5 inch HD display with LTPS technology, for easy understanding, the screen is same as Iphone 5.  And the from camera is 5MP just as its Ascend P6, and Honor 3C is using 2G RAM compare to other middle range phone. In a word, Honor 3C is fair enough to Huawei’s name.

Come back to the price, I think Honor 3C Price must be lower than RM600 as three reasons:

First, as refer to China price. The official price for Honor 3C (2G RAM) is 998RMB, but the demands are greater than ready stocks, it’s difficult to grab one at its official store, so I check from other Ecommerce website like Taobao and 360buys, Honor 3C is selling at from 1000RMB to 12000RMB. We set 1.9 as the exchange rate and suppose the price in range of RM525 to RM631, anyway according to my experience, Malaysia mobile phone retail price always higher than in China, it may also be RM699 or even RM 799, but I don’t agree for the above reason as the market environment and competition is aggressive compare to previous.

Second, sales channel. If you are now playing “guess the price” on Huawei Malaysia FB, you will find Huawei is promoting its website www.vmall.my which is a B2C Ecommerce sales platform. I had checked with some dealer who is selling Huawei phones, and none of them have more information of Honor 3C. So I dare to say that for Honor 3C, Huawei will go through Ecommerce but not traditional Channel, exactly same as in China. And price is the first consideration for ecommerce channel that is why I don’t think Honor 3C would be a greater than 699.

Third, last week Huawei hold a fans gathering in a Café around KLCC, I was lucky to join it and have a touch and feel with the Honor 3C. One of the speakers shared that Huawei will surprise the market with Honor 3C launching.  Meanwhile, I had read a post from Cari forum last week which someone posted a screen shot of Huawei internal test from Vmall.my, it marks RM880 for Honor 3C, but as it’s for internal, and we expected that the price will not goes higher than China price, most likely Huawei staff may have some kind of Voucher.

Refers to all the information above, I may conclude that the price for Honor 3C must be RM599 or RM580 in Malaysia.

If higher than RM650 , will go for AP RM588 . If price it above RM800 , as well buy AP honor 3x RM939 .

What phone?

ZTE grand SII cost only 1699 yuan, comes with snapdragon 801...

But that is if you can get buy it... 

Screenshot with one whole bunch of code to give my own answer? Haha..

That is no answer, but just the source code of upcoming Vmall page.
Honor 3X doesn't seem to be coming to Malaysia in near terms

my fren got 1 3C, it' was control in the back ends,

which means, u may select which sim function in 3G

check out OGwhatsapp. I used it before =)

539...huahahaha (dreaming here)

3C got old man mode, easier for mom/dad use

I guess the price will lower than 599

Huawei official already hint this morning that the price will be range at 499-599

how the performance honor c vs xiaomi phone... ? which one is better... its berbaloi to buy this honor c at superbuy RM499 or wait for xiaomi phone..

i bought sp together with the phone at Vmall just now.. i think its hard to find accessories for non-mainsteam phone, thats why i straight away buy

yup.
this phone released in china December last year.

Marketing gimmick..nk tiru Xiaomi la tu..sold out for 100 units stated out of stock haha calm down guys esk lusa ad lg

http://www.iuni.com/reserve/1083755

this is even more interesting.. high end spec but sooo cheap RM600++ after converted.. spec similar as Note 3

Dai Gor, u think marketing is such an easy job meh.
Just see the flow of FB, contest, setup of website, user testing event, launching event, cooperation with Lazada, SuperBuy, logistic, hiring of personnel, material printing, not even mention everything also need to comply with M'sia local law, etc.

I am quite sure Huawei planned this project since last year, or even back to 2012.
That is why this 3C project is running so well.
As a marketing person, I give Huawei marketing team 10 out of 10 for this project. Almost flawless.
Of cuz, even before this, Huawei already got root in M'sia, it helps a lot.
And 3C is a really good phone, may be the best phone with this price range.

While Xiaomi can simply launch Xiaomi in M'sia just to catch up with Huawei 3C project, while not everything is completely setup yet.
Simply setup a website and sell their phone.

Then what will u guys say then?
"Hah? After start selling 2 weeks then only got launching event 1 ah? What a joke"
"website so sucks. Huawei website much better"
"Pui. Bad customer service, call x 3 no one answer one."
"Kanasai, after order 10 days only get it"

blah x 3

Faster is not necessary better. 3 months ago, everyone go for Moto G.
But what happen now? Everyone is crazy for 3C.
Even one of my fd who bought Moto G about 3 months ago is considering to sell it and go for 3C.
Who knows what will happen when Xiaomi launch?
Give Xiaomi team some time la bro.