On the evening of January 10, Honor released its first folding screen mobile phone - Honor Magic V, and Zhao Ming, CEO of Glory Terminal Co., Ltd., called it "the leading work of folding screen mobile phones in 2022", and the strength of the product can be seen. In addition to this, Honor also released the Honor watch GS3.
The idea of Honor Magic V is to make the outer screen and the inner screen have high practicality and complement each other, so this time both screens have high quality.
The outer screen is equipped with a 6.45-inch OLED screen, a 120Hz refresh rate, a screen ratio of 21.3:9, a resolution of 2560 x 1080, a pixel density of 431ppi, and a screen ratio of up to 90%. In addition, the outer screen supports 100% DCI-P3 wide color gamut, 1 billion color display and HDR10+ technology, and the global maximum brightness of the outer screen is 1000nit and the peak maximum brightness is 1200nit. The actual usage experience and display area are consistent with regular flagships.
The inner screen adopts a 7.9-inch large screen, supports 90Hz refresh rate, screen ratio of 10.3:9, resolution of 2272 x 1984, pixel density reaches 381ppi, supports 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 1 billion color display, HDR10+ and other display technologies, and Honor Magic V is the industry's first IMAX Enhanced certified folding screen mobile phone, bringing users the ultimate display effect.
In addition, the inner screen is covered with a layer of magnetron nano optical film and AF anti-fingerprint coating, the former reduces the reflection of the screen, which can further enhance the display effect of the screen. In addition, due to the decline in the reflectivity of light, it is naturally more friendly to the human eye; the latter enhances the ability to resist dust, hydrophobic, anti-fingerprint, and anti-oil.
It is worth noting that the inner and outer screens are arranged in a drill-like arrangement, and both support DC+1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming to reduce the strobe hazard.
The thickness of the body of the Honor Magic V folded state is 14.3mm, the thickness of the left and right fuselage of the screen expansion is 6.7mm, and the weight is 288g (plain leather material back shell) or 293g (glass material back shell). Whether folded or unfolded, the Honor Magic V achieves the flatness and thickness of the fuselage, achieving the best balance and grip.
In terms of appearance design, Honor Magic V has three colors: burning orange, titanium empty silver, and bright black, of which burning orange is plain leather. The camera section adopts the industry's first three-body star ring camera design, while covering a layer of 3D curved lens glass.
Since it is a folding screen phone, Honor has reorganized the system logic.
Honor Magic V preset based on Android 12 Magic UI 6.0, the application of parallel horizon, suspension window, smart split screen, etc. a series of display, interaction and operation logic, with intelligent and simplified operation mode, so that users in the running of a single program more efficient, running multiple programs more convenient, more efficient, fully release the product large-screen advantages, greatly expand the mobile phone multi-tasking, multi-threaded production capacity.
Note that this folding screen mobile phone innovatively introduces a new split-screen interactive entrance - split-screen navigation, the main split-screen function is accommodated in it, providing a unified interactive entrance within the user's field of vision, which can be used at will, the user can select the split screen and suspension position relationship of the two App content with one key, and can also choose the App that needs to be full screen at any time, eliminating the complicated and cumbersome gesture operation in the past.
In addition, Magic UI 6.0 has repainted the system icons, which are better looking and smoother than the previous generation. The system functions and operation logic are very similar to Hongmeng, including large folders, icons on the slide out of the plug-in, etc., while adding the current popular widget system.
It's worth noting that Magic UI 6.0 is still based on Android 12.
In addition to the software level, this hardware configuration has also reached the flagship level.
Honor Magic V is equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8, supplemented by a maximum of 12GB + 512GB memory combination, in order to further improve performance, the machine is equipped with OS Turbo X technology, using ultra-low latency engine, anti-aging engine, intelligent memory engine, to achieve platform-level reconstruction, system tuning and tuning, greatly improving system fluency, system anti-aging and system power consumption performance. At the same time, the machine supports the new GPU Turbo X graphics acceleration engine technology, using AI Rendering technology, which generates high-fidelity game quality through advanced AI rendering, making the game experience more realistic.
The machine in only 14.3mm body thickness, Honor Magic V cleverly accommodates a 4750mAh large-capacity battery, while supporting 66W wired super fast charging, to achieve longer endurance, faster charging.
At the image level, the machine has more than 50 million main camera fusion computing photography at the rear, including a 50 million pixel wide-angle camera, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera and a 50-megapixel spectral enhancement camera, which builds a powerful rear camera matrix. At the same time, in order to facilitate users' use, honor Magic V is also equipped with a 42-megapixel front camera on both internal and external screens.
In some detailed configurations, Honor Magic V supports stereo dual speakers, NFC, IR remote control, WiFi 6 and so on.
It can be said that the Honor Magic V folding screen mobile phone reflects honor's deep technical reserves and rich experience accumulation in the technology industry, and is the top representative of honor's pursuit of ultimate productism.
In terms of price, honor Magic V 12GB + 256GB is priced at 9999 yuan, 12GB + 512GB is priced at 10999 yuan. Pre-sale opens at 22:00 on January 10 and officially goes on sale at 10:08 on January 18.
In addition to folding screen mobile phones, there is also a new watch - Honor Watch GS3.
Honor watch GS3 has three theme designs, namely Racing Pioneer, Global Voyage, and Streamer Classic, corresponding to black, blue and gold. Among them, in addition to using 316L stainless steel as the main material of the watch frame, the streamer classic also adopts a higher cost four-layer rose gold plating process, which has better body strength and impact resistance, and is also carefully polished by the real gold coating process, deducing a more fashionable and cutting-edge color performance, bringing better watch wear resistance.
The watch mirror also uses 3D thin curved glass, the curved edge is slightly higher than the middle frame, equipped with a 1.43-inch AMOLED silky high-grade color screen, to ensure a larger display area, 326PPI pixel density so that the watch not only accommodates more information, but also allows users to read clearly and easily, 1000nits of brightness can be guaranteed to be clearly displayed when exercising outdoors.
It is worth noting that the Honor watch GS3 debuts the induction heart rate dial, and the heart rate is displayed in real time.
In addition, the watch only has a thickness of 10.5mm and a weight of 44g (excluding the strap), which is lighter and more comfortable to wear without restraint.
Functional level is still the main sports health, with the help of HONOR Health 5.0 software and hardware collaboration program, built-in 8-channel heart rate AI engine, greatly improving the accuracy of heart rate monitoring, it not only provides reference data for users to grasp the state of the body, accurate self-health management.
In terms of specific functions, honor watch GS3 supports heart rate detection, continuous blood oxygen monitoring, sleep monitoring, women's physiological cycle recording and reminders, etc., sports functions support fun skipping rope mode, professional ski mode, etc. support 104 sports modes, support 5ATM waterproof level.
Honor watch GS3 supports 14 days of ultra-long battery life, fast power recovery, and supports NFC auto card.
In terms of price, the Racing Pioneer with the fluoroelastomer strap is priced at 1299 yuan, and the two versions of the World Voyage and Streamer Classic with Nappa leather strap are priced at 1499 yuan. From 21:30 on January 10 to 10:00 on January 14, the pre-sale time is pre-sale, and the deposit is 100 yuan to 200 yuan during the pre-sale period, and the first sale is opened at 10:08 on January 14.