Prior to the Huawei/Honor break up, I had my fingers on virtually each mannequin or flagship that Honor made. The co-design with Huawei, together with a very good high-middle marketplace for these flagships, made them aggressive merchandise. However, Honor was offered to basically run standalone, which meant it was now not underneath the US entity record bans, and will leverage Google providers once more. The Honor 50 is one in all these units, providing a full Google expertise, and opting to pair a 700-series Snapdragon SoC with a 108 MP digicam and a 6.57-inch OLED show. We had some hands-on with the Honor 50 forward of the launch subsequent month in October.
As a part of our briefing, we additionally discovered that Honor is increasing its worker base, with now over 10,000+ workers globally, half of that are in R&D, product improvement, and targeted on creating units. We spoke with the UK group, that are equally increasing as a part of Honor’s initiative to develop its world footprint by establishing partnerships. Recently Honor signed an settlement with Microsoft to supply among the first notebooks (the Honor Magicbook) to ship with Windows 11 as customary.
Honor 50: The Vlogger’s Phone
The system as offered to us is aiming as a mid-to-high vary system appropriate for customers that depend on images and movies recorded on system for his or her content material creation. Normally the response to that will be ‘well, isn’t each cellphone?’, nonetheless Honor is tackling that use case in a number of methods.
First up is the digicam resolution. The entrance dealing with digicam is the same specification to plenty of 2019 flagship rear cameras, with further AI algorithms in place to reap the benefits of picture or video within the conventional vlogging model. The entrance dealing with digicam additionally works in cooperation with the rear cameras in a multi-video recording format. Through the software program, a consumer can choose side-by-side or picture-in-picture between any two cameras back and front, with impartial per-camera zoom, or a 3-way multi-camera report. The concept right here is that the kind of consumer who would possibly need this cellphone might need to report an occasion but in addition their response on the identical time, and by constructing on plenty of multi-video telephones up to now, Honor desires the Honor 50 to go above and past all the pieces else out there.
Second is the precise digicam {hardware} – the punch-hole entrance dealing with digicam is a 32 MP design with further AI algorithms to allow a ‘wide-angle’ entrance dealing with shot by way of digital adjustment. On the rear, the spotlight is a 108 MP digicam with a 1/1.52-inch sensor at F1.9, nonetheless through the use of 9-in-1 pixel fusion, this permits for a sensor with an efficient 2.1 micron pixel dimension. The rear additionally consists of an 8MP vast angle digicam, a 55mm-equivalent Bokeh digicam, and a 2MP Macro digicam. Building on a number of generations of AI integration with the native digicam app, a number of cameras can be utilized directly for a mixed picture.
Third is extra technical specs – constructed on the Snapdragon 778G, Honor says that it’s utilizing as lots of the video and AI accelerators as it’s ready contained in the Qualcomm processor to hurry up lots of the digicam choices. Honor additionally plies the battery with a 66 W Supercharge mode (11V @ 6A), which it claims can cost the dual-cell battery with 70% in 20 minutes.
Another attention-grabbing function to the smartphone is the show – the 6.57-inch OLED at a 2340×1080 decision. Honor says that this helps 100% of the DCI-P3 shade gamut, 1.07 billion colours (we’re ready on affirmation if that is 10-bit or 8-bit+FRC), and a 120 Hz refresh charge. At the time of our briefing, our contacts have been not sure if this was a variable refresh charge show providing a variety of refresh charges, or if it was merely a binary 60 Hz to 120 Hz mode. We have been advised that it does assist refresh charges…
