We’re simply days away from the official reveal of Honor’s subsequent era of flagship smartphones.
Each the Magic 6 and Magic 6 Professional are anticipated to reach in China this month, and Honor has already confirmed a few key particulars in regards to the telephones.
Right here’s every part we all know at this stage, together with a confirmed launch date.
When will the Honor Magic 6 be launched?
Honor has introduced on Weibo that the Honor Magic 6 collection will likely be unveiled on 10 January 2024, simply earlier than the introduction of its Magic OS 8.0 Android pores and skin a day later.
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Nevertheless, this launch occasion is solely for China. Whereas a world launch is predicted in some unspecified time in the future, Honor is but to disclose when that could be.
For context, right here’s when the earlier generations had been launched in Europe:
The final two had been launched to a world viewers on the MWC commerce present in Barcelona on the finish of February. That occasion is scheduled for 26-29 February in 2024, so it’s seemingly we’ll see each the Magic 6 and 6 Professional there.
Nevertheless, even when that’s the case, it could take 1-2 months for the telephones to truly go on sale in Europe. And don’t rule out Honor delaying their world launch till later within the yr.
Simply don’t count on the Magic 6 or 6 Professional to ever be out there in North America – Honor doesn’t promote its telephones there.
Moreover, Honor has confirmed a collaboration with Porsche for a limited-edition Magic 6 Porsche Design, which could even be launched later this month. But when there finally ends up being a Magic 6 Final, it’ll most likely stay unique to China.
How a lot will the Honor Magic 6 value?
There was no affirmation of the pricing for the brand new fashions but, however we will depend on earlier ones for hints. Right here’s how the Magic 4 and the Magic 5 telephones had been priced at their preliminary launch:
- Honor Magic 4 Lite: £249/€319
- Honor Magic 4: €899
- Honor Magic 4 Professional: £949/€1,099
- Honor Magic 4 Final (China solely): ¥7,999 (round £960/$1,260)
- Honor Magic 5 Lite: £329/€369
- Honor Magic 5: €899
- Honor Magic 5 Professional: £949/€1,199
- Honor Magic 5 Final (China solely): ¥6,699 (round £780/$975)
Honor could stick to the Magic 5 pricing, no less than for the Magic 6 and 6 Professional. However it’s additionally potential that we’ll see some will increase.
The Magic 5 Final, though solely out there in China, value lower than its predecessor, however it’s troublesome to find out what awaits the Magic 6 Final.
What specs and options will the Honor Magic 6 have?
The Magic 6 collection hasn’t been launched but, however Honor CEO George Zhao has already given us a good suggestion of what to anticipate. An official Weibo put up reveals the Honor Magic 6 Professional with a design that’s largely unchanged in comparison with its predecessor, the Magic 5 Professional.
The gadget incorporates a triple digicam unit organized in a triangular method inside a spherical digicam module. It features a dual-LED flash, microphone and ‘100x’ label, hinting on the most zoom of the digicam.
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The official graphic aligns with renders of the flagship mannequin from Digital Chat Station, showcasing the gadget from all angles. On the entrance, it’s anticipated to boast a quad-curved OLED panel with a pill-shaped cut-out, although the selfie digicam is more likely to be paired with a depth sensor as soon as once more, somewhat than a second lens.
Digital Chat Station / Weibo
Honor has confirmed that the Magic 6 collection will likely be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Qualcomm’s newest and best chipset.
The official itemizing of the Magic 6 Professional on Honor’s Chinese language web site confirms its availability in storage choices of 256GB, 512GB or 1 TB. Nevertheless, it doesn’t specify the quantity of RAM accompanying every variant.
It’s additionally been revealed that the gadget will likely be supplied in a number of colors, together with black, white, inexperienced, cyan, and purple.
Each the Magic 6 and Magic 6 Professional will characteristic Honor’s new Magic OS 8.0 software program, which is constructed on Android 14.
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Throughout Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in October 2023, Honor additionally confirmed that the Magic 6 will likely be pushed by an on-device LLM (giant language mannequin) containing seven billion parameters. Customers will be capable of use AI to to provide movies from images and movies saved on their units by issuing instructions to the on-device sensible voice assistant YOYO. And all of the templates, themes and music in these movies will be tailor-made by means of further prompts for personalised outcomes.
Honor additionally showcased a multimodal interplay system known as Magic Capsule, which utilises eye-tracking know-how. This know-how permits customers to manage their cellphone by altering the route of their gaze. Whereas Magic Capsule is intriguing, its precise performance and privateness implications stay unclear.
Moreover, the corporate introduced three basic options of MagicRing: Related Digital camera, Related Enter, and multi-device display sharing. MagicRing, leveraging the Snapdragon Seamless know-how, permits smoother and extra power-efficient information alternate between units, and also needs to enhance stability. It stays to be seen how effectively all of those options work.
We’ll replace this text as soon as extra data has been revealed on the Chinese language launch. To see what the Magic 6 collection will likely be up towards, take a look at our guides to one of the best Honor telephones and finest Android telephones.