Two flagship launches in a single 12 months – why not, given the tempo of technological enchancment. Honor unveiled the Magic6 collection this January and right now it brings the sequel with a brand new chipset, even greater batteries, quicker charging, more durable our bodies and extra.
Each the Honor Magic7 and Magic7 Professional are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite they usually leverage its NPU compute energy for a wide range of AI duties that vary from a digital assistant to enhancements to digital camera processing.
Each Magic7 telephones are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite
The massive improve on the Honor Magic7 Professional is the 200MP telephoto digital camera, changing the already spectacular 180MP shooter on the Magic6 Professional. The brand new sensor is kind of giant – 1/1.4” is “foremost digital camera” materials for sure different flagships – and sits behind a 60mm lens. This offers a comfortable 2.5x zoom on the brief finish, which you’ll be able to lengthen all the way in which to 100x with digital zoom.
The Magic7 Professional has a formidable 200MP 1/1.4” sensor in its tele digital camera
The principle digital camera stays the identical with a 50MP 1/1.3” sensor and a variable aperture (f/1.4-f/2.0), plus OIS. The extremely large digital camera is actually the identical too, with a 50MP sensor and a 12mm f/2.0 lens (122°), which might focus at a simply a few centimeters away to take macro photographs.
The front-facing digital camera has yet one more 50MP sensor and a large 90° lens (f/2.0). The pill-shaped cutout holds it and the 3D face scanner for safe biometric unlocking. Not like camera-based approaches, this one works at the hours of darkness because it has its personal IR illuminator. To be truthful, the ultrasonic fingerprint reader works at the hours of darkness too.
6.8” LTPO show with a 3D face scanner
The reader is constructed into the 6.8” LTPO OLED show (1-120Hz) with 1,280 x 2,800px decision and 10-bit colours (Dolby Imaginative and prescient). The worldwide peak brightness is 1,600 nits, however HDR content material can go as much as 5,000 nits. All that gentle is reigned in with high-frequency PWM dimming (4,320Hz). Word that the show isn’t flat, however is “micro quad curved”.
The battery contained in the Professional has grown to five,850mAh (250mAh greater than the Magic6 Professional), the larger enchancment right here is the quicker charging – 100W wired and 80W wi-fi, in comparison with 80W/66W for the older cellphone.
The Honor Magic7 additionally has an LTPO OLED show (1-120Hz), a flat 6.78” panel this time (1,264 x 2,800px). This mannequin additionally switches to an ultrasonic fingerprint reader (the Magic6 and Professional from January used optical readers). There’s no 3D face scanner right here, so you could have simply the fingerprint reader (and a smaller gap in your display).
Predictably, the vanilla cellphone loses the superior telephoto module, however the remainder is principally the identical. The tele here’s a 50MP 68mm module with OIS (3x optical, as much as 50x digital zoom). It’s joined by a 50MP foremost (1/1.3” sensor, mounted f/1.9 aperture) and 50MP extremely large (122° with macro mode). The selfie digital camera has a 50MP sensor and a 90° lens.
Honor Magic7 digital camera
The Magic7 has a 3rd era Honor Qinghai Lake battery – the identical branding as on the Professional, however we’re not seeing a point out of Silicon-Carbon. It doesn’t matter, although, the capability is what counts and the brand new vanilla cellphone has a 5,650mAh battery (200mAh greater than its predecessor) and helps the identical quick charging because the Professional at 100W wired and 80W wi-fi (up from 66W/55W).
Honor Magic7 batteries have extra capability and quicker charging
It’s additionally price noting that the Magic6 had no mud or water resistance ranking, the Magic6 Professional had IP68. However the Magic7 and Magic7 Professional are more durable than each with not solely IP68, but in addition IP69 (resistance in opposition to scorching water jets).
Each telephones are rated IP68/IP69
It’s nice to see the “vanilla” mannequin be on par with the Professional on so many issues – chipset, many of the cameras, battery tech, waterproofing. This contains satellite tv for pc connectivity, however since it’s primarily based on the Beidou system, it would almost certainly be out there solely in China.
Honor Magic7 and Magic7 Professional costs in China
The 2 Magic7 fashions go on pre-order right now and Honor will begin promoting them on November 8 (Friday subsequent week). The vanilla Honor Magic7 begins at CNY 4,500 for the bottom 12/256GB mannequin (this converts to $630/€585/₹53,000. There are a number of improve choices: 12/512GB for CNY 4,800, 16/512GB for CNY 5,000 and 16GB/1TB for CNY 5,500.
The Honor Magic7 Professional begins at CNY 5,700 for a 12/256GB mannequin ($800/€740/₹67,250). A few greater tiers can be found too: 16/512GB for CNY 6,200 and 16GB/1TB for CNY 6,700.