The Honor Magic 6 Pro is like a luxury watch for your pocket

Date:
Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:00:54 +0000

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Honor has officially unveiled the Honor Magic 6 Pro at MWC 2024.

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When Honor partnered with supermodels, Burberry and British Vogue to unveil its bag-like Honor V Purse at IFA 2023 , it became clear that this fast-growing Chinese electronics brand has bold designs on the luxury electronics market.

We recently dubbed its latest foldable effort, the Honor Magic V2 , a benchmark-setting beauty," and Honors eye-catching successor to the excellent Honor Magic 5 Pro looks set to further disrupt an increasingly homogeneous (read: samey) mobile industry.

From a design perspective, the Honor Magic 6 Pro which was just announced
for the global market at MWC 2024 might well be the best-looking phone of
the year so far. At the very least, its the most distinctive. Theres no titanium in sight, but Honors latest flagship refines its predecessors Star Wheel camera notch by taking inspiration from precious stones and luxury wristwatches.

Honor says this new-and-improved module design is a nod to cushion-shaped watches, jade congs, and baroque diamonds, and given that the former were popularized by luxury watchmaker Panerai in the 1940s, its easy to see why Honor has embraced this unique squircle shape on the Magic 6 Pro. Image 1 of
2 The Honor Magic 6 Pro's camera module in Black (Image credit: Honor / Future) Image 2 of 2 Panerai watches are known for their cushion-shaped
design (Image credit: Panerai)

But aside from its aesthetic bells and whistles, the Honor Magic 6 Pro boasts hardware specs to rival the very best phones of 2024. On the front of the device is a 6.8-inch LTPO OLED display that not only sports an adaptive 1-120Hz refresh rate, but also a peak HDR brightness of 5,000 nits and Honors proprietary Circadian Night Display technology. In laymans terms, the latter filters blue light to improve the quality of your sleep, and its aided by an impressive 4,320Hz PWM dimming cycle rate that works to minimize strain on
the eyes.

This 6.8-inch display is protected by Honors NanoCrystal Shield, which is supposedly 10 times stronger than regular glass. Naturally, we'll have to put that claim to the test, but its nice to know that Honor is confident about
its new phones durability. The Magic 6 Pro has an IP68 water and dust resistance rating, too, which is the same rating boasted by the Samsung
Galaxy S24 Ultra and iPhone 15 Pro Max . (Image credit: Honor / Future)

Under the hood, Honors latest flagship is powered by Qualcomms Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset again, thats the same chipset youll find in the Galaxy S24 Ultra and a 5,600mAh silicon-carbon battery, which should keep things
ticking along nicely for well over a day. Periscope power

Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the Honor Magic 6 Pro, however, is the camera technology hidden beneath that aforementioned Star Wheel module. The new phone sports a 50MP wide lens, a 50MP ultra-wide lens and an almighty 180MP periscope telephoto lens which, at the time of writing, is the largest telephoto lens weve ever seen on a smartphone.

Annoyingly, that telephoto lens is only capable of 2.5x optical zoom (youll
be able to zoom digitally up to 100x), but were still excited to put the
Honor Magic 6 Pro through its photography paces in our full Honor Magic 6 Pro review. Honor debuted its new eye-tracking technology at MWC 2024 (Image credit: Honor)

As for what else is new on the Magic 6 Pro, Honor has made a big song and dance about the phones myriad AI-powered features, which range from a Dynamic Island-style Magic Capsule to an intent-based Magic Portal navigation system
. Again, well be testing out these AI features for ourselves over the coming weeks, but the early signs are promising Honor clearly has Samsungs Galaxy
AI software in its sights with the Magic 6 Pro.

Honors latest flagship will cost 1,099.99 and begin shipping from March 8, 2024. Youll be able to pre-order the Magic 6 Pro from March 1, 2024, and itll be available in two colors: Black and Epi Green. The former features velvet matte glass, while the latter features ripple classic leather. Weve handled the Epi Green variant, and its a beauty.

For reference, the Honor Magic 5 Pro launched for 949.99, so Honor has hiked the price of its successor by a not-insubstantial 150. As with most other Honor products, the Magic 6 Pro is unlikely to go on sale in the US and Australia. You might also like Up close with Qualcomm Snapdragon AR2 smart glasses This hidden iPhone trick will make falling alseep easier Apples new method for updating iPhones sounds decidedly Apple-like



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