Financial Associated Press | Small K Evaluation Room (reporter Tang Zhixiao) news, in August 2021, Honor restarted the product line "Magic Series" that has not been updated for nearly 3 years, and positioned it as its high-end flagship product line, which is also the "last train" that caught up with the Snapdragon 888 flagship chip.
Due to the impact of the supply chain, the pre-sale of the Honor Magic4 series equipped with snapdragon 8 Gen1 processors was postponed to April 22.
"Our first pre-sale is over," the clerk of the Honor offline store told reporters, "now if you want to book, you only need to pay a penny, and you can get the goods as soon as May." ”
The small K evaluation room learned that if you want to book a mobile phone offline, you need to pay a deposit of 100 yuan to 200 yuan. In stark contrast to the Magic4 series, the Folding Screen Mobile Phone Magic V Series is so hot that it is suspended.
Compared with the folding screen Magic V, the Magic4 series of products is more "cost-effective", but the popularity is not as good as the former. After experiencing the Magic4 Pro for a while, the Little K Evaluation Room finally understood the reasons behind it.
The design continues the previous generation without much change
The small K evaluation room got the Honor Magic4 Pro edition, and its hardware parameters are shown in the following figure:
As the second product of the Honor Magic series reboot, magic4 Pro continues the previous style in the design, and in the design, there is not much change.
The overall use of four-curved design, the screen for support 120Hz refresh rate OLED screen, resolution close to 1080P, can display content according to the picture, dynamically adjust the screen refresh rate, up to 120Hz support.
The front camera has a cut-out in the upper-left corner of the screen, which includes a 12-megapixel wide-angle lens and a 3D-capable deep-sense camera. Coupled with the under-screen fingerprint recognition module, Magic4 Pro supports fingerprint and face dual unlocking, and has reached the level of payment security.
As for the back cover, the color matching is more conventional: the Magic4 Pro offers two materials and five colors to choose from, of which the burning orange is made of plain leather, and the other four colors are made of glass. The best version is available in black and white colors only in ceramic.
The NFC module and the infrared remote control module are also a non-falling. In addition, honor magic4 Pro also supports reverse charging, which can urgently power its newly released Earthbuds Pro 3.
From the design point of view, Magic4 Pro has not changed much, can be understood as the configuration upgrade of the previous generation of products, its main upgrade point is in the hardware configuration.
Mainstream flagship image module
The camera module part of the Magic4 Pro has not changed much compared to the previous generation, and it is still a triple-camera design: 50-megapixel wide-angle and ultra-wide-angle with 64-megapixel 10x periscope ultra-telephoto.
Another pair of suspected camera parts on the camera module are actually Flicker sensors and dTOF laser focus systems. The former can suppress the strobe of the photo, and the latter can improve the focus speed.
Here are some samples in the small K evaluation room for your reference:
Main photography sample -1
Main photography sample -2
Main photo sample -3
Since both the main camera and the ultra-wide angle use a high pixel volume of 50 million pixels, the appropriate cropping will not lose too much pixel volume in the case of better light.
Main shot sample -4
Ultra-wide-angle sample
However, there is still a situation of color discord between the main camera and the ultra-wide-angle lens, and this problem may be solved by firmware upgrade in the later stage.
10x telephoto sample
By the way, although the option of 3.5x zoom is displayed in the camera interface, this focal length is actually cut by the main camera.
Comparison of viewing angles for different focal lengths
In the ultra-telephoto camera interface, the phone will provide a more stable viewfinder picture through OIS and EIS stabilization algorithms. The camera module supports 10x optical zoom and up to 100x hybrid zoom.
100x zoomed screen
This function is more to meet the need to "shoot", even in the daytime of sufficient light, the picture is only able to distinguish the need to distinguish the outline of the object, the clarity is very low.
Overall, magic4 Pro's camera module is the mainstream flagship level, but the still image part is not much improved compared to the previous generation.
Its main upgrade function is that the recording mode provides a LOG mode record, which is convenient for professional users to use color grading.
Absolute performance has improved, and the game needs to wait for adaptation optimization
It is reported that the Honor Magic4 Pro uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen1 chip. The chip is based on a 4nm process and uses an eight-core architecture, including a very large core with a main frequency of 2.99GHz, three performance cores, and four energy efficiency cores.
On the left is Master Lu's running score, and on the right is An Rabbit's running score
Through Master Lu and AnTuTu running sub-software, its performance is shown in the figure. Compared to the millions of running points on other mobile phones, the Magic4 Pro has a slightly lower running score. However, running scores do not represent the actual experience. Here K Review selected Glory of Kings and Original God as the benchmark for this game experience test:
Glory of Kings game frame rate situation
The first is glory of the king, after adjusting the picture quality to high definition and high resolution, the game screen is difficult to maintain at 120 frames, but will be between 90 frames and 120 frames.
Original God game frame rate situation
The second is the original god, after adjusting the image quality to medium quality and adjusting the game frame rate to 60 frames, it can be found that the Magic4 Pro cannot run stably at 60 frames for a long time running the game at such a setting.
Instead, after 60 frames run for a while, it drops to 30 frames, and finally it goes back to 60 frames, and so on. To run stably at 60 frames, you need to change the game settings of the original god to low quality.
Judging from the experience of these games, the performance of magic4 Pro has somewhat exceeded the expectations of the small K evaluation room, which may be because the mobile phone has not yet been officially released, and the game software adaptation is not done well.
Magic4 Pro 100W wired fast charge curve change
Magic4 Pro is supporting 100W wired fast charging and 60W wireless fast charging, the actual test down, wired state from 5% to fully charged time in about 25 minutes, has caught up with the mainstream fast charging level.
From the performance experience point of view, magic4 Pro compared to the previous generation does have a certain improvement, but overall the perceived improvement is not too big, the same is true in the design.
When the clerk introduced the Magic4 series of mobile phones to reporters, most of the time he emphasized the upgrade of the mobile phone on the chip, and only when asked about the camera part, the clerk said that the camera part did not change much.
However, the lack of product innovation is not a problem faced by the product line of the Honor Magic4 series, which is a problem that the entire smartphone industry needs to face.
"At present, the mobile phone as a whole is micro-innovation, and the driving force for consumers to change the machine is insufficient." Ethan Qi, associate director of research at Counterpoint Research, said in an interview.