Honor unveiled the Honor 50 series back in June and the series came with the vanilla Honor 50 and the Honor 50 Pro.  The two models were made available in four different color schemes – snow crystal, summer amber, black jade green, and bright black. Looks like Honor is now set to release a new color option for the series.

The Huawei spin-off company shared a promotional video on Weibo pointing to the unveiling of a new color option for the Honor 50 series on Monday, August 30, 2021. The teaser suggests that the new color scheme will reflect the artistic outline of the present color options and will be fashion-themed.

We’ll have to wait till Monday to find out what Honor is cooking. Whatever it is, we expect the new model to retain the configuration of the current models including the Snapdragon 778G chipset, a 6.57-inch OLED curved screen that supports a 120Hz screen refresh rate, and 300Hz touch sampling rate. The Honor 50 series also packs a 4000mAh battery that supports a 66W fast charge while the Honor 50 Pro supports a 100W super fast charge.

In addition, the Honor 50 and 50 Pro models are equipped with four rear cameras, including a 100-megapixel primary sensor, an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, a 2-megapixel macro lens, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. On the front side, there’s a 32-megapixel snapper for taking selfies. The phone runs Magic UI 4.2 based on Android 11.

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Honor, the smartphone maker which went independent earlier this year, has confirmed that its upcoming device, the Honor 50 series, will be officially launched in China on 16th June.

Earlier, the company had confirmed that the Honor 50 will come powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC. We expect the Pro variant of the smartphone to pack the flagship Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset.

The smartphone brand has also received permission to start using Google Mobile Services on its devices and a recent tweet by Honor Germany confirmed that the Honor 50 series will have support for GMS, paving way for the global debut of the device.

Based on the leaks so far, it appears that the phone features a large pill-shaped camera module in the top-left corner that holds two large circles. The top circle packs a single camera sensor — the primary one while the bottom circle has a periscope zoom lens and a third camera sensor.

As per the leaks, the smartphone will be made available in three color options — Yellow, Blue, and Purple. There could be a few more colors but we will know about it when the phones go official. The Honor branding on the back is also much smaller than its predecessors.

Soon after splitting from Huawei, Honor started talks with other companies and suppliers as it could source components from companies that were banned to do so when Honor was a part of Huawei. The company has received a nod to do business with Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, Google, and more, which is still not possible for Huawei due to the U.S. sanctions.

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The HONOR 50 series is in the news for quite a while now. Ahead of the lineup’s launch, its features have started to emerge on the internet via leaks and certifications. But we are yet to learn more about these smartphones. That said, earlier today, a reliable tipster revealed one of the chipsets powering the HONOR 50 series.

The HONOR 50 series is rumored to include three devices, namely HONOR 50, HONOR 50 Pro, and HONOR 50 Pro+. But some reports say there will not be a Pro+ model. However, the entire specs of this handset have already been exposed by Master Lu, a popular Chinese benchmark platform.

Anyway, talking about the new leak by Digital Chat Station, one of the smartphones in the HONOR 50 series will be powered by an unreleased Qualcomm Snapdragon SM7325 platform. As per him, the chipset will debut first on this lineup. Unfortunately, he did not specifically mention the model that will be housing this SoC.

For those unaware, this is not the first time we are hearing about SM7325. According to Roland Quandt (popular leaker), this SoC will be a toned-down version of the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 775G. 

As per the leakster, this SoC will include a tri-cluster octa-core CPU consisting of a prime core, three performance cores, and four power-efficiency cores clocked at 2.7GHz, 2.4GHz, and 1.8GHz respectively.  This chipset will support up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM but Qualcomm already has test platforms with up to 12GB LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB UFS 3.1 storage.

According to previous reports, two of the HONOR 50 series handsets will bear the model numbers NTH-AN00 and NRA-AN00 respectively. The former will support 66W fast charging, whereas the latter will have 100W fast charging support. 

Lastly, the vanilla HONOR 50 is said to feature a MediaTek Dimensity 1200 SoC. On the other hand, the HONOR 50 Pro is tipped to house a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. But going by the leak, both may come with Qualcomm chipset.

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Last week, a report said that Honor 50 will arrive before the Huawei P50. Today, GSMArena has come up with an exclusive report regarding the launch and design of the Honor 50 series.

As per the report, the Honor 50 series will launch in May 2021. They haven’t mentioned a specific date or if it’s towards the beginning or far end of the month. However, the report includes what they claim to be a yet-to-be-shared teaser image of the launch.

As you can see below, the poster doesn’t even have HONOR words on it. However, it has the “THE 50 Series” and “May 2021” timelines. This tagline appears on an image that shows two camera sensors with an LED flash in a silhouette image.

Further, the report says that they received design sketches of the device. It shows a pill-shaped dual-ring pill-shaped camera design similar to the one that appeared on recent Huawei P50 renders. Out of the two cut-outs, the lower one is said to house two sensors.

Also, the renders have a ring on the side that the report guesses as a snap-on-filter that attaches externally via magnets.

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Besides, Twitter user Teme (特米)(@RODENT950) says that he doesn’t believe them to be the Honor 50 series. He also mentions an earlier leak about the Honor V40 leak that said it would have a watch-like rear camera layout. The leak didn’t turn out to be true as the Honor V40 has a rectangular camera layout.

Just like Teme, we too aren’t sure if these are how the Honor 50 would indeed look like so take them with a pinch of salt. That being said, the sketches do gives a vibe about the Honor V40 Lite Luxury Edition and we will have to wait and see if Honor makes this a standard design for devices in the future.

Update Apr 20: Apart from Honor 50, Teme also says that Honor Play 5 is also launching next month. The company unveiled the Honor Play 5T earlier today in China.

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