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Honor 50 to launch in European markets on October 26

Pranav — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:32:31 +0000

Back in June, Honor 50 was unveiled in the Chinese market with specs like a 120Hz OLED display, 108MP cameras, and a mid-range chipset. Now, Honor is gearing for its global release as today, the company has confirmed its European launch date.

The Honor 50 will be official on October 26 in the European market. The company confirmed that the smartphone will debut in the UK and some European markets. For those who are unaware, the device was seen listed on the Honor German page hinting at its availability in that market.

Now that the smartphone is landing in European markers, we expect the phone to launch in Malaysia and other markets soon.

The Honor 50 starts at CNY 2699(~$419) in China for the base model with an 8GB + 128GB storage variant. We expect the phone to be priced similarly when it arrives in Europe.

Honor 50 Specifications

The Honor 50 comes with a 6.57-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate. It has a 32MP selfie camera placed at the top middle of the screen. It features a quadruple-camera system with a 108MP main lens, an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, and two 2MP lenses for macro and depth shots.

Under the hood, it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC with 8GB, 12GB of RAM and 128GB, 256GB of onboard storage. It packs a 4,300mAh battery with 66W fast charging support. The handset runs on MagicUI 4.2 and has Android 11 out of the box. The smartphone is expected to launch with Google Mobiles Services in the European market.

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Honor 50 arrives in new Code color variant in China

Pranav — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:51:40 +0000

Earlier we reported that Honor would soon launch a new color variant for its Honor 50 in China. Today, the Chinese phone maker has tossed the all-new color named ‘Code’ in the region.

The Honor 50 Code color variant is the fifth color in the palette. The other four colors are Midnight Black, Frost Crystal, Amber Red, and Emerald Green. The Code color brings a unique color variant to the series. It has each letter from the brand’s Honor branding printed on the back of the device.

The new color is priced at CNY 2,699(roughly $417) and will go on sale starting September 3rd in China.

Honor 50 Code color

The Honor 50 comes with a 6.57-inch curved display with a Full-HD+ resolution. It has a 120Hz refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate. It has a quad-rear camera system with a 108MP primary lens, an 8MP ultra-wide sensor, a 2MP macro lens, and lastly a 2MP mono sensor. At the front, it has 32MP selfie snapper.

Under the hood, it is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G SoC paired with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. It packs a 4,300mAh battery with 66W fast charging technology. Honor claims that it will go from 0% to 70% in just 20 minutes of charging. The smartphone has an under-display fingerprint scanner for security and boots on Android 11 out of the box with Magic UI 4.2 on top of it.

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Honor 50 5G & Honor 50 Pro 5G with Curved OLED displays, GMS, Snapdragon 778 launched

Jed John Ikoba — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:54:08 +0000

Honor today (June 16) held a launch conference where it unveiled a number of products which include the Honor 50, Honor 50 Pro, Honor 50 SE, and the Honor Earbuds 2 SE. No doubt, the Honor 50 and 50 Pro are the star products among the lot. Apart from packing premium designs, the two models are designed specifically for high performance.

The Honor 50 features a 6.57-inch OLED curved screen that supports a 120Hz screen refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate. The display utilizes a single punch-hole design located centrally at the top of the screen. On the other hand, the Honor 50 Pro sports a 6.72-inch display but it has a dual punch-hole design on the top left corner of the screen. Other aspects are the same as the Honor 50.

The back design of the Honor 50 series is inspired by Rollei’s double-reflex cameras. The lens module adopts a dual-lens layout and uses a Cartier-like ring design around the main lens. In terms of performance, the camera focuses on one-stop Vlog video shooting, and the mobile phone supports six multi-lens video shooting modes including “fast-slow motion resuming” and “single and double lens resuming”.

The Honor 50 Pro dual front camera setup consists of a 12-megapixel video lens and a 32-megapixel selfie lens. The selfie camera setup supports 100° ultra-wide-angle video shooting and Selfie super night scene functions. The Honor 50 features a 32-megapixel selfie lens. At the rear aspect, both models pack a similar camera configuration. The rear setup is a 100-megapixel quad-camera setup of which the main camera is a 100-megapixel main camera teaming up with an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, a 2-megapixel macro, and another 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens.

The Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro are both powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G mobile platform, which uses 6nm process technology and a Kryo 670 architecture. The CPU is made up of a single 2.4GHz super core, three 2.2GHz large cores, and four 1.9GHz small cores. For graphics, the 5G-enabled processor integrates the Adreno 642L GPU. Compared with the previous generation, the Snapdragon 778’s performance and graphics rendering speed are improved by 45%. In addition, Honor’s GPU Turbo X and Link Turbo technologies are also adapted to the Snapdragon platform.

In other respects, the Honor 50 Pro is equipped with a 4000mAh battery that supports 100W wired fast charging. The Honor 50 is equipped with a slightly bigger 4300mAh battery that supports 66W wired fast charging. Both models run on Magic UI 4.2 based on Android 11 and feature support for NFC.

In terms of color options, the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro come in four colors: first snow crystal, summer amber, black jade green, and bright black.

In terms of price, the Honor 50 8GB+128GB is priced at 2699 yuan (~$422), the 8GB+256GB is priced at 2999 yuan (~$469), and the 12GB+256GB is priced at 3399 yuan (~$531). On the other hand, the Honor 50 Pro 8GB+256GB is priced at 3699 yuan (~$578), 12GB+256GB is priced at 3999 yuan (~$625). The models are expected to go on sale on June 25.