The Honor 9 Lite unlocks every time it sees you as it comes with a face recognition feature. That's not all, it also hides all the notifications until your face is recognized by it, thanks to its notification privacy feature.A good smartphone camera is hard to come by in the budget segment. Here, manufacturers usually try to offer the best processors, RAM and storage because specifications stand out.The Honor 9 Lite borrows a lot of design elements from its siblings. This 5.65-inch, 18:9 aspect ratio, 2.5D curved display sporting phone has thin bezels on the right and left-hand sides. The Honor branding is noticed on the thin lower bezel. The top portion houses the dual cameras beside the tiny speaker section and the proximity sensor. The Honor 9 Lite comes with 2.5D glass on both the front and the back, separated by a plastic frame. It measures around 7.6 mm thick.

The phone has a plastic frame with rounded edges, which gives it a sufficiently good grip. The use of plastic is understandable, and honestly, it does not really take away from how good the Honor 9 Lite looks