A month after the launch, we finally got the "super cup" honor magic4 in the Honor Magic4 series. Unfortunately, due to the relationship between the epidemic in Shanghai, we can only continue to go through many channels and work hard to bring you the experience report of this new machine.
As the top configuration of the flagship model, the Honor Magic4 Edition adopts the ultimate symmetrical aesthetic design as a whole. The front of the machine is a 6.81-inch quad curved LTPO screen, and the screen and the rear shell cover are made of quadrangular glass to maximize the curvature of both sides of the screen.
Coupled with a more delicate rounded symmetrical design, the four-end border of the Honor Magic4 to the best version is further narrowed while visually becoming invisible, with the upper and lower borders only 0.94mm, 50% less than the previous generation, bringing a wider and more immersive visual appearance.
This screen supports intelligent adjustment of the optimal dynamic screen refresh rate in 1-120Hz according to the application and user operating habits.
With the self-developed MotionSync technology, the "Adaptive Dynamic Frame Rate" function of honor Magic4 to the best version can adjust the screen refresh rate in real time, quickly and intelligently according to the rendering speed of different scene animations and finger touch operations, which not only ensures a smooth and comfortable mobile phone experience, but also effectively reduces screen loss.
Not only that, honor magic4 to the best version also implemented the 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming function based on LTPO screen for the first time in the industry, which effectively reduces the user's visual fatigue in dim scenes and reduces eye pressure.
On the screen side of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition, there is also a 3D deep sense lens, which can achieve more accurate and secure financial payment-level face unlocking under the premise of ensuring user privacy and security, even in complex light environments such as low light, backlight, and side light.
On the back of the Honor Magic4 Edition is a nanocrystalline ceramic material and a super-curved nanocrystalline panel, in which the camera part follows the muse eye design: the square periscope telephoto lens in the center reflects the deep mystery and layering, and the other cameras are arranged in a symmetrical circular arrangement. The edges of the lens module are cut out of eight bevels, creating a more boxy octagon. In between, the Honor Magic4 Edition combines Chinese culture and modern technology to embody extraordinary visual design wisdom.
In terms of imaging, the Honor Magic4 Edition is equipped with a rare luxury configuration, which is 50MP wide-angle main camera + 64MP ultra-wide angle + 64MP periscope 3.5X telephoto lens, in addition to a spectrum-enhanced camera, a TOF lens for focus, a Flicker sensor and a multi-spectral color temperature sensor, and has obtained the highest score of DXOMARK of 146 points.
The reason why such a configuration is rare is because the vast majority of flagship mobile phones have shrunk in the image configuration, and it is still very positive that Glory can still launch such an image flagship in such a big environment.
The main camera adopts a 1/1.12" super base CMOS, 8P lens and f/1.6 large aperture, supportS optical image stabilization at the same time as a spectrum enhanced camera auxiliary imaging (mainly used for poor weather such as fog through computational photography to penetrate haze), from the sample to see the sharpness of the texture are good.
The 64MP ultra-wide angle debuts a double freeform lens, with a 7P lens design and a 1/2" outsole that makes this main camera handy when shooting urban landscapes and buildings; and due to the non-destructive distortion correction of the hyperboloid lens at the optical level, the Glory Magic4 Ultimate Edition's ultra-wide-angle edge quality may be the best performance in this year's mobile phone.
This ultra-wide-angle lens can also be used as a macro lens, and the saturation and sharpness are good from the sample, and there is no saturation or blur.
The 3.5X super telephoto features the highest pixel of the current 64MP and supports dual image stabilization of OIS+EIS, 10X hybrid zoom and 100X digital zoom.
Under the hybrid zoom of 10X, the Honor Magic4 Best Edition can still provide good picture quality, but 100X is more of a far-reaching effect, and the picture quality is not too entangled.
(3.5X on the left, 10X on the right)
The Honor Magic4 Edition also provides a very powerful multi-camera fusion computing function, in the non-native such as 0.8X and 2.5X digital zoom, on the basis of digital zoom, the main camera and telephoto fill the center part of the picture on the basis of digital zoom, bringing better picture quality performance.
（0.6X，0.8X）
After enlarging the above two figures, you can see that the picture after digital zoom on the right side is significantly better than the quality of the central part of the picture on the left, which is the charm brought by the multi-camera fusion computing function.
（0.6X，0.8X）
In view of the pain points that are prone to glare and ghosting in the backlit scene shooting, the Honor Magic4 Edition also adopts super anti-glare coating technology this time, and the UAR ultra-low anti-coating and IRCF blue glass spin coating method greatly improve the shooting ability when backlighting.
Because of the existence of multi-spectral color temperature sensors, the rear triple-camera white balance and hue of the Honor Magic4 to the best version will remain at a relatively uniform color temperature; but because of the composition, there will inevitably be some gaps in exposure, HDR and AI color optimization, but these differences are still within the acceptable range.
In terms of color, in addition to the multi-color temperature sensor, the Honor Magic4 series also added an AI color engine to the HONOR Image Engine image engine, the purpose is to avoid excessive correction of white balance and lose the sense of atmosphere, and retain the "memory color" of the photo.
For example, when shooting a mall with a large area of warm colors, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition will not have a situation where the white balance is corrected and the overall photo is cold and white, but can accurately restore the actual color of the scene.
In terms of portraits, with the self-developed AI portrait engine, honor magic4 to the best version will optimize the night scene of the portrait, large light ratio HDR and other shooting scenes, and make detailed adjustments for exposure, white balance, human scene segmentation, skin texture, facial features and other parameters.
It is worth mentioning that in response to the current increasingly strong demand for video, the Honor Magic4 Edition is equipped with an independent image chip. The biggest advantage of this chip is that it has higher processing bandwidth, stronger AI computing power and more targeted processing power, including complex processing such as color correction, ISO compensation, and HDR calculations, which can be completed by independent image chips.
The most intuitive role of these functions is to realize the real-time image calculation of the 4K RAW domain, resulting in real-time preview and high-specification shooting of 4K super night scene video.
Because the above use is a screen recording screenshot, resulting in the overall color will have a certain deviation, from the actual sample screenshot, the overall effect is still good, less noise and the overall dynamic range is good, the saturation is moderate, the look and feel is good.
At the same time, the Honor Magic4 to the best edition also debuted the 4K 60fps 10bit-log movie mode of ultra-high specification video recording capabilities, for many people "4K", "60fps", "10bit", "log" these words are still familiar, but the 4K 60fps 10bit-log shooting specifications after the spelling may not have any concept. To know that in the fiercely competitive professional camera market, the earliest camera that can achieve similar specifications is the Panasonic GH5 (M43 model) 4 years ago, followed by the Sony a7SIII and Canon EOS R5 (full frame) released 2 years ago, the price of these three machines is often more than 20,000 (excluding lenses), and even caused a sensation when released, which shows the strength and rarity of this specification.
It can be said that for an imaging practitioner like me, 4K 60fps 10bit-log is the most basic specification I can accept when creating, on the one hand, the 10bit log mode brings good dynamic range, better color transition (solid color environment is more difficult to fault).
In fact, there is a very important step after the use of log as a special gamma curve in our actual production, that is, the use of LUT for color reproduction, the gray film shot with log is restored to our common high saturation and high contrast positive film. To this end, Honor and Hollywood's professional influence team have created a number of movie-level restoration LUTs, and the restoration LUTs of different styles and colors also use very image names, making it easier for users to get started.
(log mode, using the official restore LUT)
In addition, Honor has added the functions of recording Chinese and American shooting and one recording.
The former allows users to capture a wonderful moment in the process of video recording, and unlike ordinary frame interceptions, honor magic4 to the best version in the recording of the Middle And The function of the next time for raw domain processing, and multi-frame fusion, so as to obtain a high-quality photo with picture quality and dynamic range far beyond the frame.
The one-record multi-get function can support AI to generate 15s videos with one click, which is convenient for users to share on video platforms such as WeChat Circle of Friends or Douyin.
In terms of performance, honor magic4 to the best version is equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform, as well as honor's original GPU Turbo X + AI super rendering, AnTutu running score of up to 990,000 points.
In terms of charging and battery life, honor Magic4 to the best version of the built-in 4600mAh battery, support 100W wired super fast charge and 50W wireless super fast charge, the official said that the wired state only takes about 30 minutes to charge to 100%.
As a communication technology that Honor has always been proud of, Honor Magic4 Edition naturally has its own superiority in terms of communication experience. Thanks to LINK Turbo X technology, Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition supports 5G, 4G, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 6, 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 quad network collaborative acceleration, as well as 5G, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi 6, 5GHz Wi-Fi 6 three networks concurrently, can achieve ultra-high-speed download.
Not only that, honor magic4 best edition can also intelligently identify areas with good and poor network connections based on the daily usage information uploaded/feedback by users. When the user is about to enter the area with poor network, the Honor Magic4 series can switch the mobile phone to a stable network in advance to ensure that the user's network is stable in the area. For example, when a video call or live video is carried out while entering the elevator car, the stuttering time is limited to 3.07s, and the network experience is very fast and sensitive.
In terms of system experience, the Magic UI 6.0 equipped with the Honor Magic4 To Perfection Edition has gone further in terms of smart interaction and privacy protection, bringing functions such as lost mode, blurred position, and automatic removal of clipboard.
It is worth mentioning that Honor has also reached a strategic cooperation with Microsoft, with the help of the Windows system with the ability of YourPhone, to quickly realize the interoperability between honor mobile phones and Windows computers, thereby enriching the glory multi-device collaboration scenario.
When the Honor Magic4 To Perfection Edition is connected to the Windows computer, users can synchronize and manage mobile phone notifications, photos, and calls on the computer, and can also directly access the mobile phone screen and applications on the computer, drag and drop files to each other, and further improve office efficiency.
In terms of privacy protection, Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition supports the newly launched privacy protection function - smart privacy call function.
This function is based on the two-unit intelligent collaborative sound technology pioneered by Honor, which can effectively reduce the interference with others while ensuring the volume demand of users in the ear through software and hardware combined with patented technology. In this way, whether you are in a public place, a quiet elevator or a conference room, you can ensure that the conversation remains private, without worrying about the "little secret" that others hear on the other end of the phone.
It should be noted that the Honor Smart Privacy Call needs to take effect at or below the volume level 6 (the volume setting is a total of 10 levels), and the user can easily know whether the function is enabled through the volume bar color.
In view of the fact that mobile phones rarely shut down and restart operations, resulting in sensitive information in the clipboard being easily identified and collected by illegal websites or applications, the Honor Magic4 series can intelligently identify sensitive data in the user's clipboard and delay removal to prevent the leakage of private information in subtle places and leave no security risks.
In addition, the Honor Magic4 mobile phone also has a unique and immutable anti-theft logo, in the lost mode, the user can remotely lock the mobile phone SIM card, refuse to force the shutdown, and hide incoming calls and messages to prevent the actual user's control by shutdown, etc., to prevent the user identity through phone calls and text messages.
In general, in today's somewhat lifeless mobile phone imaging industry, honor Magic4 to the best edition is still always adhering to the dual innovation of software and hardware, and it is not easy to launch such a mobile phone equipped with an independent image chip and a full-focal length main camera. Not to mention the phone's many industry firsts, such as the first mobile phone with a double freeform lens ultra-wide angle, the first model that supports 4K 60fps 10bit-log shooting, and the current highest pixel 64MP in the telephoto lens, these advances have invariably improved our experience.