Honor’s subsequent era of smartphones are simply across the nook.
The Magic 6 Lite has arrived in Europe, providing a powerful set of options for its mid-range value.
They’re anticipated to be joined by the common Magic 6 and 6 Professional very quickly, although they’re anticipated to be restricted to China initially.
Right here’s every part we all know at this stage.
When will the Honor Magic 6 be launched?
We’re anticipating three telephones within the Honor Magic 6 lineup, although they received’t all be launched on the identical time.
The Magic 6 Lite, the most affordable of the vary, launched in China on 4 December 2023. It then arrived within the UK and Europe on 10 January 2024.
Honor has confirmed by way of Weibo that it’ll be holding an occasion for the Magic 6 sequence and Magic 8.0 Android pores and skin on 10-11 January. With no announcement of the 6 and 6 Professional but, we will assume it’s imminent.
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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 is perhaps.
For context, right here’s when the earlier generations have been launched in Europe:
The final two have 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 possible we’ll see each the Magic 6 and 6 Professional there.
Nevertheless, even when that’s the case, it might take 1-2 months for the telephones to truly go on sale in Europe. And don’t rule out Honor delaying their international 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.
If there finally ends up being a Magic 6 Final, it’ll most likely stay unique to China.
Moreover, Honor has confirmed a collaboration with Porsche for a limited-edition Magic 6 Porsche Design, which could even be launched later this month.
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 have 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 follow the Magic 5 pricing, not less than for the Magic 6 and 6 Professional. Nevertheless it’s additionally doable 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.
In terms of Magic 6 Lite, the cellphone is offered within the UK on HiHonor for £349.99, together with a complimentary HONOR Pad X8 (price £99.99) while shares final, and 12-months free display safety.
What specs and options will the Honor Magic 6 have?
Magic 6 and 6 Professional
The Magic 6 flagships haven’t been launched but, however Honor CEO George Zhao has already given us a good suggestion of what to anticipate. An official Weibo submit reveals the Honor Magic 6 Professional with a design that’s largely unchanged in comparison with its predecessor, the Magic 5 Professional.
The machine includes a triple digital camera unit organized in a triangular method inside a spherical digital camera module. It features a dual-LED flash, microphone and ‘100x’ label, hinting on the most zoom of the digital camera.
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Honor has additionally formally listed the common Magic 6 and the Magic 6 Pro on its on-line retailer, showcasing the machine from all angles.
The photographs have confirmed that the Professional variant will characteristic a powerful 100x zoom, together with a probable 10x optical. Against this, the usual Magic 6 will supposedly provide a 50x zoom, however with no indication of a periscope lens, chances are you’ll be reliant on digital zoom.
Moreover, the Magic 6 Professional will characteristic a twin selfie digital camera housed in a large punch gap, whereas the Magic 6 will go for a single gap for its front-facing digital camera. Each telephones are anticipated to boast a curved OLED panel, however full specs are but to be revealed for both.
Nevertheless, Honor has individually confirmed that the Magic 6 sequence can be powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, Qualcomm’s newest and best chipset.
We additionally know that the Magic 6 can be out there in storage choices of 256GB or 512GB, whereas the Magic 6 Professional will characteristic as much as 1TB of storage. Nevertheless, the quantities of RAM out there are but to be revealed.
The vary of colors have been confirmed although, not less than in China: black, white, inexperienced, cyan, and purple.
And 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.
Throughout Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in October 2023, Honor additionally confirmed that the Magic 6 sequence can be pushed by an on-device LLM (giant language mannequin) containing seven billion parameters.
Customers will have the ability to use AI to to supply movies from pictures and movies saved on their gadgets by issuing instructions to the on-device good voice assistant YOYO. And all of the templates, themes and music in these movies will be tailor-made by way of extra 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 regulate their cellphone by altering the course of their gaze. Whereas Magic Capsule is intriguing, its precise performance and privateness implications stay unclear.
Moreover, the corporate offered 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 trade between gadgets, and also needs to enhance stability. It stays to be seen how properly all of those options work.
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Magic 6 Lite
The Magic 6 Lite is the one cellphone to have formally been revealed up to now. It’s out there proper now in Europe in Midnight Black, Emerald Inexperienced and Dawn Orange finishes.
The cellphone boasts a 6.78-inch AMOLED curved show with Full HD+ decision (1220 × 2652 pixels), a facet ratio of 19.5:9, and refresh charge of 120Hz.
The display additionally gives a most brightness of 1,200 nits, 1920Hz PWM dimming know-how, and includes a cut-out housing a 16MP selfie digital camera with an f/2.5 aperture.
On the rear panel, the round module accommodates a three-camera setup, comprising a 108MP (f/1.75) fundamental digital camera, a 5MP (f/2.2) ultra-wide digital camera, and a 2MP (f/2.4) macro digital camera. The setup can file video in as much as 4K decision at 30 frames per second.
Beneath the Magic 6 Lite’s chassis lies a Qualcomm Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 processor, constructed utilizing a 4nm know-how course of. The chipset operates alongside 8GB of RAM and 256GB of inner storage.
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For connectivity, the smartphone utilises dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.1, and a USB Sort-C port. It additionally options twin SIM help and a fingerprint reader built-in into the show.
Though Honor has simply introduced the Android 14-based Magic OS 8.0, the Magic 6 Lite runs Android 13 with the Magic UI 7.2 overlay and is powered by a 5300mAh battery with 35W quick charging.
The smartphone measures 163.6×75.5×7.98mm and weighs 185 grams.
We’ll replace this text as soon as extra data has been revealed on the Chinese language launch. To see what the Magic 6 sequence can be up in opposition to, take a look at our guides to the perfect Honor telephones and greatest Android telephones.
