Honor has announced its latest flagship smartphones, the Honor Magic 4 Pro and Magic 4. With this release, the brand is getting ever more ambitious. Honor wants its Magic lineup wants to be seen as on par with the Samsung Galaxy S22 or the iPhone 13. They may… have a little way to go with that.
Is this Magic or a divorce comeback?
Both devices come with a 6.81 in LTPO-Gen 3-display with a 120Hz adaptive refresh rate. The Magic 4 has a screen resolution of 1,224 x 2,664. The Pro scales that up to a 1,312 x 2,848 screen. Both offer back-lit and dimming features. Honor says that the benefits of LTPO over an OLED screen include more efficient power usage and a reduction in eye strain.
The stock 4 is packing a 4,800mAh lithium-polymer battery, while the Magic 4 Pro makes do with 4,600mAh. The Pro supports fast-charge speeds (wired and wireless, apparently) up to 100W, the Magic 4 goes up to 66W (wired only). Both devices will also be able to charge wirelessly, at 5W. So make sure you really, really need it. The feature is apparently aimed at competitors who also share power with their friends.
And then there’s the design. There’s an oversized circle dominating the rear of the smartphone(s), containing all of Honor’s lovely camera tech. Everyone has some sort of comeback after a divorce. After leaving its messy Huawei split behind, this is Honor’s equivalent of stepping out of a salon with a new hairstyle.
Intense focus
There is no censorship for Honor’s sensors in its Magic 4 camera setups. Both handsets possess dual 50MP sensors. One sports an f/1.8 wide lens and the other an f/2.2 ultra-wide lens with a 122-degree field of vision, placed across from each other on the device. But while the stock edition gets an 8MP periscope telephoto, the Pro is packing a 64MP with a 3.5x optical zoom and 100x digital zoom. The more expensive unit also gets an 8×8 Direct Time of Flight (dToF) sensor to help with focusing and image quality.
Honor is most proud of its ‘multi-camera fusion computing‘ tech. This blends pics from both lenses together for a better image. The zoom works in the same way in Honor’s ‘multi-frame function’. This basically smashes all of the lens inputs together.
“Colour is used to collect colours, and black and white is used to capture details. With the help of AI intelligent fusion technology, it can improve without changing the size of the main camera. The sharpness of shooting, and the sharpness of this fusion method of Honor can be increased by up to 18%, and the amount of light can be increased by up to 13%,” says inf.news.
In case you were wondering, both phones record video in 4K (and 1080p, obviously). Both modes offer speeds of 30fps and 60fps. There are better video flagships out there, but that’ll do for now.
Honor’s Magic specs
Both Honor Magic 4s conceal Qualcomm’s Snapdragon’s 8 Gen 1 chips under the hood, the same SoC as in Samsung’s Galaxy S22. The Magic 4 is available with either 8GB or 12GB of RAM and between 128GB and 512GB of storage, while the Magic 4 Pro has the same RAM specs, but with only a 512GB storage option. The Pro has an IP68 rating for dust and water resistance. The Magic 4 only has an IP54 rating — so it’ll only shrug off a dash and a splash.
Source: MobileWorldLive