Honor Magic goes official : price, specifications

Honor is constantly exploring new technology applications. The Honor Magic breaks new ground by incorporating artificial intelligence designed to understand and analyze users’ data in order to provide intelligent interactive features.

Powered by a Kirin 950, the Honor Magic features a 5.09-inch 2K AMOLED curved screen. The Honor Magic also sports a stylish and ergonomic design, with a 3D curved glass body.

Designed to support a more intuitive mobile user experience, the Honor Magic boasts intelligent sensor and recognition technology. The WiseScreen sensor enables users to unlock their phone by simply picking up and looking at the screen, the display will automatically turn off and the screen will lock when put down or put in a pocket. The FaceCode intelligent recognition feature, on the other hand, ensures total privacy by only revealing message notifications to the pre-registered face.

To further improve user experience, the Honor Magic houses the Honor Magic Live system, which anticipates users’ needs and facilitate their daily lives by offering a whole host of predictive information. The Honor Magic Live system is, for instance, able to formulate a range of customized recommendations based on users’ social conversations via instant messaging apps – conversations revolving around movies will trigger blockbuster recommendations.

It has FaceCode Intelligent Recognition so new message notification will only reveal itself for pre-registered faces to ensure users’ privacy. DeepThink lets you Press and hold the home button so it will offer multi-facets information based on the current webpage you visit. It has a fingerprint sensor built into the home button and has curved glass finish on the back as well.  home button lets you navigate around, such as unlock the phone, return to previous page, browse history and return to the home screen, simply by touching, double tapping or swiping on the same key.

Honor Magic’s Smart Display proactively retrieves and displays practical information, anticipating users’ need. For example, ordering a cab with Honor Magic will trigger the driver’s license plate number to be displayed on the screen. To make it a truly round-the-clock companion, the Honor Magic uses Huawei Magic Power, a revolutionary proprietary speed charging technology, which recharges 70% of the battery in 20 minutes, and 40% in 10 minutes.1

“The Honor Magic encapsulates our commitment to cutting-edge innovation and technology,” said George Zhao, president of Honor. “Through this launch, we at Honor are telling our fans around the globe that we are genuinely committed to challenging ourselves and willing to disrupt the status quo to ultimately be able to bring the best mobile-internet experience to them.”

5.09-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) Quad HD AMOLED 3D curved glass display
Octa-Core Kirin 950 (2.3GHz 4 x A72 + 1.8GHz 4 x A53) 16nm processor with Mali T880-MP4 GPU
4GB RAM, 64GB internal storage
Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) with Honor Magic Live OS
Dual SIM
12MP dual rear cameras with dual-tone LED flash, f/2.2 aperture, 6P lens, 1.4um pixel size
8MP front-facing camera with f/2.0 aperture
Fingerprint sensor
Dimensions: 146.1×69.9x 7.8 mm; Weight: 145g
4G, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.2, GPS
2900mAh battery with Huawei Magic Power fast charging

Honor Magic comes in Golden black and Porcelain white colors and is priced at 3699 yuan  and will be available for order in China starting from December 16th.