Honor has just launched their latest flagship smartphones dubbed the Honor Magic4 and the Magic4 Pro. The devices feature the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 gen 1 SoC and have an impressive camera system that can give the leading premium flagships a run for their money, so let’s take a look at what all the smartphones have to offer.
Design & Display
Starting with the design of the smartphones, the Honor Magic4 Pro and the vanilla Magic4 feature a symmetrical design concept that allows for a firm, comfortable grip on the smartphone. Both the smartphones come with a curved display and have cutouts for the front camera. The Pro model has a slightly left alignment and is in a pill shape cutout to accommodate dual front cameras, while the vanilla Magic4 has a center punch hole for the selfie cam.
On the rear, both the devices come with a large circular “eye of muse” camera array design that is already present in its predecessor, the Honor Magic3.
Coming to the display, the Magic4 Pro offers a curved 6.81-inch 1312 x 2848p LTPO OLED panel with a variable refresh rate capable of going from 1Hz to 120Hz. It also offers 460 PPI pixel density, and a 360Hz touch sampling rate. The vanilla version on the other hand has a Curved 6.81-inch 1224 x 2664p LTPO OLED panel with up to 120Hz refresh rate. Both the models are capable of up to 1000 nits peak brightness and 1920Hz PWM Dimming.
Camera
It wouldn’t be untrue to say that the main attraction of these new smartphones is their camera setups. with the Magic4 Pro boasting a triple camera setup consisting of a 50MP Wide primary camera (f/1.8), a 50MP Ultra Wide Camera(f/2.2), and a 64MP Periscope Telephoto Camera (f/3.5) with 3.5x Optical Zoom, 100x Digital Zoom, and EIS+OIS stabilization. The camera island also includes a Flicker sensor and an 8×8 dTOF Laser Focusing System. The Magic Pro gets a 12MP 100 degrees FOV front camera coupled with a 3D depth camera enabling the smartphone to offer facial recognition features.
Honor says that its “Multi-Camera Computation Photography” allows for the intelligent combination of all lenses, enhancing some of its zoom capabilities and additionally sharper images.
The vanilla Magic4 also gets the 50MP Wide primary camera, a 50MP Ultrawide with 122 degrees FOV, and has an 8MP Periscopic Telephoto camera capable of up to 50X digital zoom. The phone also equips the flicker and lacer focusing sensors.
Specifications and features
The Magic4 and the Magic 4 Pro come with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 octa-core SoC which features the Adreno 730 GPU and offers GPU Turbo X, which makes the gaming performance even stronger. But that’s not all as the smartphones feature a self-developed HONOR Image Engine chip to enhance the photography experience even further. The devices have also been integrated with an independent chipset offering the dual TEE security system to better protect the privacy of its users. On the topic of security, the devices also come with an in-display ultrasonic fingerprint sensor.
The Magic4 series devices are offered in 8GB and 12GB RAM variants and offer 256/512GB UFS 3.1 storage. The vanilla model also comes in a 128GB storage option. The Magic4 Pro has a 4,600mAh battery that supports 100W wired and wireless charging. The vanilla variant gets a larger 4,800mAh battery with support for 66W fast charging.
Other features of the devices include dual-band WiFi with 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 2×2 MIMO, HE160, 4096 QAM support, Bluetooth 5.2, 5G, NFC, and GPS, AGPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, and Galileo for positioning. The devices are also certified with IP68 water and dustproof rating.
Price and availability
The Honor Magic4 series will be available in Cyan and Gold in addition to Black and White variants. There’s also a vegan leather edition of the Pro in Orange color. More colors are in store for the future.
Coming to the price of the devices, the vanilla Honor Magic4 will start at €899 while the Magic4 Pro will be available for €1099. Honor has announced that they will soon announce the availability dates for different countries and regions.
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