Today Honor accomplished its Chinese launch of the brand new Honor 30 sequence of smartphones, including three new gadgets to its premium to flagship line-up of gadgets. All the brand new telephones are 5G succesful and inherit the forefront customized RYYB digital camera sensors from Sony that made Huawei gadgets stand out from the gang – all in new smooth designs that considerably raises Honor construct high quality in comparison with earlier generations.
| Honor 30 Series (China Launch) | ||||
| Honor 30 | Honor 30 Pro | Honor 30 Pro+ | ||
| SoC | HiSilicon Kirin 985
1x A76 @ 2.58 GHz Mali G77MP8 @ ? |
HiSilicon Kirin 990 5G
2x Cortex-A76 @ 2.86 GHz Mali G76MP16 @ 700MHz |
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| DRAM | 6/8GB | 8GB | 8/12GB | |
| Display | 6.53″ OLED 2400 x 1080 (20:9) 60Hz |
6.57″ OLED 2340 x 1080 (19.5:9) 60Hz |
6.57″ OLED 2340 x 1080 (19.5:9) 90Hz |
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| Size | Height | 160.34 | 160.32 | |
| Width | 74.18 | 73.61 | ||
| Depth | 8.1mm 8.47mm (high) |
8.38mm 8.63mm (high) |
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| Weight | 185g | 190g | ||
| Battery Capacity | 3900mAh (Rated) 4000mAh (Typical) 40W TremendousCharge |
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| Wireless Charging | – | – | 27W Fast Charge | |
| Rear Cameras | ||||
| Main | 40MP 1/1.7″ 1.0µm RYYB f/1.Eight OIS |
50MP 1/1.28″ 1.22µm RYYB f/1.9 OIS |
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| Telephoto | 5x Optical 8MP f/3.Four OIS 125mm eq. |
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| Ultra-Wide | 8MP f/2.4 17mm eq. |
16MP f/2.2 17mm eq. |
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| Extra | 2MP Macro | – | ||
| Front Camera | 32MP f/2.zero FF | 32MP f/2.zero FF + 8MP f/2.2 FF |
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| Storage | 128 / 256GB + proprietary “nanoSD” card |
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| I/O | USB-C | |||
| Wireless (native) | 802.11ax (Wifi 6), Bluetooth 5.1 LE |
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| Cellular | 4G + 5G NR NSA+SA Sub-6GHz | |||
| Splash, Water, Dust Resistance | – | IP54 | ||
| Dual-SIM | 2x nano-SIM | |||
| Launch OS | AOSP 10 w/ EMUI 10
with out Google companies |
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| Launch Price | 6+128GB: ¥2999 (~$426) 8+128GB: ¥3199 (~$459) 8+256GB: ¥3499 (~$495) |
8+128GB: ¥3999 (~$566) 8+256GB: ¥4399 |
8+256GB: ¥4999 (~$707) |
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Starting off with the common Honor 30, the most important shock right here by way of the specs is the truth that this can be a telephone powered by the brand new Kirin 985 chipset, making this the primary public displaying of the brand new silicon. Similar to the Kirin 980 in capabilities, it’s very a lot a totally new design that matches in-between the 2 flagship generations by way of its capabilities. For the primary time HiSilicon is launching an identical 1+3+Four CPU configuration as first seen in Qualcomm chipsets such because the Snapdragon 855 final 12 months, with the core configuration on this case being 1x A76 at 2.58GHz + 3x A76 @ 2.4GHz and 4x A55’s at 1.84GHz. Whilst the CPU technology hasn’t been up to date, the GPU noticed an even bigger change as we’re now seeing a Mali-G77 powering the SoC – additionally a primary for a HiSilicon SoC. We at the moment don’t have extra detailed info on the core rely or frequencies.
The new chipset is manufactured on a 7nm course of node and seemingly has 5G capabilities. It’s possible HiSilicon right here built-in the 5G modem into the SoC, however once more we’re ready on official affirmation on the matter.
The Honor 30 Pro and Pro+ are powered by the well-known Kirin 990 5G chipset that had been launched within the Mate 30 sequence final 12 months and can be being utilized by the just lately introduced P40 telephones from Huawei.
The Honor 30 is a considerably comparable design to the Honor 20 – at the very least from far-off. We’re nonetheless taking a look at a flat show, which on this technology has been upgraded to OLED know-how, nonetheless coming in at 6.53” and 2400 x 1080 decision. However Honor appears to have vastly improved the construct high quality as the brand new glass sandwich design appears…
