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Honor has unveiled the global availability of their new Honor Magic5 Series and The Honor Magic Vs at The Mobile World Congress 2023. These are the latest iterations of the successful Honor Magic Series.
“Committed to addressing the real needs of customers, Honor adopts a human-centric approach to product innovation, offering intuitive technology solutions to improve the daily lives of everyone,” said George Zhao, CEO of Honor Device Co, Ltd. “The Hobor Magic5 Pro, our latest flagship all-rounder, and the Honor Magic Vs, our first foldable flagship to be launched in the global market, push industry benchmarks in every aspect of smartphone user experience, in line with our vision to enable a smarter life for everyone.”
The Gaudi Curve
Adhering to the Eye of Muse’s iconic design, the Honor Magic5 Pro redesigns and introduces the Star Wheel Triple Camera system. Paying homage to Antoni Gaudi, the Honor Magic5 Pro features symmetry dual-curved ultra-narrow bezels on both sides and a Star Wheel Triple Camera Design sitting as the centerpiece on the back cover, blending the curves found in natural landscapes and modern architecture into the design of the cutting-edge device, demonstrating a combination of art and technology.
The Display
The Honor Magic5 offers a 6.81-inch LTPO Display with a unique Quad-Curved Floating Screen. Equipped with a Novel Display Luminance Enhancement Technology, the HONOR Magic5 Series delivers a peak HDR brightness of 1800 nits, ensuring clear visuals even under bright sunlight.
The smartphone also has a Discrete Display Chipset to improve the visual quality of moving images. While offering an always-on high dynamic range (HDR) effect to enhance video clarity, the chipset delivers a higher frame rate with lower power consumption for a smoother, longer gaming experience. Certified with HDR10+ and IMAX Enhanced, the Magic5 enables users to enjoy videos and movies with optimized picture quality.
To Relieve users’ eye strain, the Honor Magic5 Pro boasts low blue light emission and Dynamic Dimming which simulates natural light to alleviate eye fatigue.
The Camera System
The Honor Magic5 Pro won first place in The DXOMARK global camera ranking with a score of 152, making it the highest camera-scoring smartphone tested to date. The Honor Magic5 Pro features a powerful Triple Main Camera combination comprising a 50MP Wide Camera, a 50MP Ultra Wide Camera, and a 50MP Telephoto Camera. The camera system produces photos in refined detail every time, no matter the lighting conditions. Ultra Fusion Computational Optics, a computational optical algorithm complementing the camera system, drastically improves image clarity at 3.5x-100x zoom, setting the device apart from other smartphones on the market.
Performance
Powered by the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Mobile Platform from Qualcomm, the Honor Magic5 Pro delivers an unrivaled flagship performance, enabling enhanced productivity and entertainment at all times. With the industry’s first Wi-Fi and Bluetooth standalone antenna architecture, Honor says the smartphone can improve Wi-Fi performance by 200% and reduces Wi-Fi latency by 30% compared to the traditional antenna design in the industry, bringing users ultimate flexibility and mobility for work and play.
Supporting 66W Wired and 50W Wireless Honor SuperCharge, the Honor Magic5 Pro packs with a super large 5100mAh battery to deliver a full day of uninterrupted usage.
Running the latest MagicOS 7.1 based on Android 13, the Honor Magic5 Pro offers a range of smart features, such as MagicRing for multi-device collaboration and Magic Text for intelligent text recognition, helping users to further boost their productivity.
The Honor Magic Vs
The Honor Magic Vs is Honor’s first foldable flagship to debut outside of China. It boasts high-quality design, display, and performance upgrades, taking the foldable smartphone experience to the next level.
The Magic Vs is exceptionally slim and lightweight, measuring just 12.9mm thin when folded and 267g in weight. Despite its compact form factor, it features a 5000mAh battery, the largest battery capacity among foldable smartphones under 270g that are available today.
Contributing to the light weight of the HONOR Magic Vs is a revolutionary Super-light Gearless Hinge that has been carefully crafted using single-piece casting technology, reducing the number of structural components from 92 in the previous generation down to just 4. Boasting great durability, the hinge can withstand up to 400,000 folds. That’s equivalent to more than ten years of use based on 100 folds per day.
The Dual Display
The Honor Magic Vs is promoted as greatly boosting productivity. It features a user-friendly 6.45-inch external display with a 21:9 aspect ratio and a 90% screen-to-body ratio. When unfolded, the Honor Magic Vs delivers a tablet-like experience with an extra-wide 7.9-inch internal display, enabling users to multitask and view content with remarkable ease.
Packed with professional eye comfort solutions, the Honor Magic Vs features Dynamic Dimming, Circadian Night Display, and 1920Hz Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) Dimming, the highest frequency ever achieved in the current foldable smartphones markets, to effectively reduce the effects of digital eye strain and fatigue.
The Configurations
The Magic Vs is equipped with an impressive rear triple camera system comprising a 54MP IMX800 Main Camera, a 50MP Ultra-Wide & Macro Main Camera, and an 8MP 3X Optical Zoom Camera, delivering an exceptional photography experience, no matter the shooting scenario22.
Powered by the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 Mobile Platform2 from Qualcomm, the HONOR Magic Vs delivers good performance with higher power efficiency for a faster and smoother user experience. With HONOR’s Turbo X engines, it strives to bring you longer battery life and a smoother experience.
Color, Pricing, and Availability
The Honor Magic5 Pro will be available in Glacier Blue, Meadow Green, Coral Purple, Orange, and Black, while the Honor Magic5 is available in Black and Blue.
The Honor Magic5 Series will be available starting from Q2, 2023. The price for the phone will start at €899 (8G+256GB), while the Honor Magic5 Pro will be €1199 (12G+512GB).
The Honor Magic Vs will be priced at €1599 (12GB+512GB) in the colors cyan and black. Availability for the smartphone will be announced at a later date.
