Despite spelling honour incorrectly, the phone has managed to sell more than 1.5 million in China since June. Huawei has invested heavily in the past couple of years to establish Honor as a standalone brand to challenge Xiaomi.

George Zhao, president of Huawei's Honor brand, said the handsets would be promoted and sold online in Europe, as they were in China. Zhao said the Honor 7, which has high-end features like a solid metallic shell and fingerprint recognition, was achieving high customer satisfaction levels.

The handset features a 5.2-inch 1080p (1920 x 1080) JDI In-Cell Touch Display, 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (expandable up to 128GB via microSD card). It uses Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 935 64-bit octa-core SoC running at 2.2GHz and a 3,100mAh battery.

The phone supports Quick Charging, but you'll need to purchase a separate charger in order to take advantage of that.

The phone has a 20-megapixel rear-facing unit (Sony's IMX 230 sensor, Sapphire lens cover, f/2.0 aperture) and an 8-megapixel front-facing shooter (f/2.4 aperture), both of which have LED flash included next to them.

The Honor 7 is a dual-SIM handset which offers 4G LTE connectivity and ships with Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box with Huawei's EMUI 3.1 skin on top of Google's OS. It will be priced at £249.99 pounds in Britain.