Today, we see HONOR announce the corporate’s new flagship Magic Three sequence of gadgets. We’ve lined the corporate for a few years now, however so far that was within the context of the corporate being a subsidiary model of Huawei. Today’s occasion additionally comes from HONOR, however this time round from a spun off firm that’s speculated to have lower ties with the commerce embargoed and restricted Huawei of previous. In a way, it’s largely the identical folks behind the scenes, but in addition on the identical time, it’s additionally a transparent cut-off from previous gadgets, most notably within the type of the adoption of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets, the return of Google’s software suite and ecosystem, in addition to a recent begin from a software program OS perspective.
The Magic sequence up to now had been somewhat particular gadgets, showcases of particular know-how, akin to for instance one of many first bezel-less gadgets in the marketplace with a sliding display design. HONOR has readopted the Magic sequence in what seems to be their line of flagship gadgets – the latter which can also be considerably of a novelty for the corporate and staff as this phase was by no means a focus-point earlier than.
The new Magic Three sequence consists of three new telephones, the “regular” Magic 3, the Magic 3 Pro, and the Magic 3 Pro+. The product segmentation right here follows previous Huawei gadgets’ ways when it comes to equipping the telephones with more and more higher specs the upper you go within the vary, and particularly the brand new Magic 3 Pro+ is pushing issues fairly far in relation to points such because the digicam system.
| HONOR Magic 3 Series | ||||
| Magic 3 | Magic 3 Pro | Magic 3 Pro+ | ||
| SoC | Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
1x X1 @ 2.84GHz Adreno 660 @ 840MHz |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+
1x Cortex-X1 @ 2.995GHz Adreno 660 @ 840MHz |
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| DRAM | 8GB LPDDR5-6400 |
8/12GB LPDDR5-6400 |
12GB LPDDR5-6400 |
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| Primary Display | 6.76″ AMOLED 2772 x 1344 120Hz Refresh |
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| Size | Height | 162.8mm | ||
| Width | 74.9mm | |||
| Depth | 8.9mm (glass) 9.5mm (v-leather) |
9.94mm | ||
| Weight | 203g | 213g | 236g | |
| Battery Capacity | 4600mAh (Typical)
66W |
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| Wireless Charging | – | 50W | ||
| Rear Cameras | ||||
| Main | 50MP 1.0µm IMX766 2×2 OCL PDAF f/1.9 23mm eq. |
50MP 1.22µm IMX700 Octa PD f/1.9 23mm eq. |
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| Extra Main |
64MP Monochrome
f/1.8 |
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| Telephoto | – | 64MP 0.7µm
f/3.5 3.5x / 90mm eq. |
– | |
| Ultra-Wide | 13MP 1µm
f/2.2 |
64MP 0.7µm
f/2.2 |
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| Extra | Laser Focus | 8×8 dToF | ||
| Front Camera | 13MP f/2.4 |
13MP f/2.4 +dToF |
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| Storage | 128 / 256GB UFS 3.1 |
256 / 512GB UFS 3.1 |
512GB UFS 3.1 |
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| I/O | USB-C | |||
| Wireless (native) | 802.11ax (Wifi 6) | |||
| Cellular | 4G + 5G NR NSA+SA Sub-6GHz | |||
| Special Features | Under-screen fingerprint sensor Stereo audio system |
Under-screen fingerprint sensor Stereo audio system |
Under-screen fingerprint sensor Stereo audio system |
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| Splash, Water, Dust Resistance | IP54 | IP68 | ||
| Dual-SIM | nano-SIM + eSIM | 2x nano-SIM + eSIM | 2x nano-SIM + eSIM | |
| Launch OS | Android 11 w/ Magic UI 5.0 | |||
| Launch Price | 8+128GB: ? € 8+256GB: 899€ |
12+256GB: 1099 € 12+512GB: ? € |
12+512GB: 1499€ | |
Starting off on the coronary heart of the telephone, the brand new Magic Three sequence undertake Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 888 chipset – that’s, a minimum of the common model does. The Magic 3 Pro and Pro+ are amongst one of many first gadgets to undertake the upper binned Snapdragon 888+, which will increase the clock speeds of the X1 cores to as much as 3GHz, in addition to bettering the ML efficiency of the chip.
For a couple of months now, we’ve heard from Qualcomm executives that they’ve been extraordinarily excited to have HONOR as a brand new buyer, representing loads of progress alternative as Huawei had its market share eradicated over the previous yr.
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