Honor’s newest gadgets are slim and wealthy with AI options.

IFA, one of many world’s largest tech conferences, formally begins tomorrow in Berlin, however Honor is not ready to get the joy going. At a launch occasion this afternoon, the tech model introduced 4 new merchandise directly, ticking containers in 4 main classes: phones, laptops, smartwatches, and tablets. It ought to come as no shock that AI was a big focus of the occasion and its new merchandise, similar to all tech releases to date this 12 months from each main model. Moreover, all the most recent Honor items prioritize slim, light-weight designs with enhanced productiveness and value options.

Honor Magic V3 smartphone

Slim, sturdy, and foldable

First up is the brand new Honor cellphone, the Magic V3. Honor claims that is the “world’s thinnest inward foldable cellphone with enhanced sturdiness, battery, show, and AI expertise.” Certainly, it’s remarkably skinny. When folded, it measures simply 0.36 inches, and the cellphone weighs solely 7.9 ounces. When folded, it seems to be like bar cellphone, although even thinner than most. Honor says it was capable of preserve the cellphone so skinny and light-weight due to “19 modern supplies and 114 microstructures.”

Regardless of the thinness, sturdiness is a key characteristic of the Magic V3. The cellphone makes use of what Honor calls a “Particular Fiber,” which supposedly improves affect resistance by 40 occasions in comparison with different flagship bar telephones whereas lowering the again cowl thickness by 30%. Moreover, the hinge of the cellphone is a proprietary “Tremendous Metal Hinge,” which may deal with as much as 500,000 folding cycles and has earned the SGS Sturdiness Certification.

Impressively, the Magic V3 presents an IPX8 ranking and might be submerged right down to roughly eight toes, which is a primary for a foldable cellphone. Lastly, it options Honor’s Tremendous Armored Interior Display and Anti-scratch NanoCrystal Defend to guard the show from scratches and injury. Which means you could possibly dispose of a separate display protector. The presentation included a video of the Magic V3 going by a washer and in addition being thrown round on stage, so it looks like a cellphone constructed to final.

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The MagicV3 presents a 6.43-inch exterior show and a 7.92-inch inner foldable display, making multitasking simpler. It even partnered with 150 apps to create multitasking options only for its foldable display. Honor additionally prioritized making the show straightforward on the eyes in a spread of conditions. It options AI Defocus Show know-how, 4320Hz Danger-free PWM Dimming, Dynamic Dimming, a Round Night time Show, and a Pure Tone Show. All of these instruments ought to make for a greater viewing expertise, irrespective of the state of affairs.

Contained in the Honor Magic V3 is a 5150mAh third-generation silicon-carbon battery that may be charged with both 66W wired or 50W wi-fi Honor SuperCharge. The digital camera array makes use of the Falcon Digital camera System, which features a 50MP periscope telephoto digital camera, a 50MP important digital camera, and a 40MP ultra-wide digital camera.

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Whereas the digital camera specs are wonderful, Honor can be using on-device AI for a number of digital camera options that will help you get even higher pictures along with your cellphone. That features AI Movement Sensing to seize high-speed conditions and an AI Portrait Engine to boost portraits. Honor collaborated with Google to reap the benefits of Google’s AI fashions. That features an AI Eraser, face-to-face translation, and extra translation instruments in Honor Notes.

The Honor Magic V3 is obtainable for buy now in Reddish Brown, Black, and Inexperienced for $2,221.

Honor Magic V3

Honor’s newest book-style foldable cellphone is extremely skinny and lightweight — extra so than many slab-style gadgets.

Model

Honor

SoC

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Show

2344 x 2156 OLED 7.92-inch (Inside), 2376 x 1060 OLED 6.43-inch (Exterior)

RAM

12GB

Storage

512GB

Battery

5150mAh

Ports

USB-C

Working System

Android

Entrance digital camera

20-megapixel f/2.2 (Inside), 20-megapixel f/2.2 (Exterior)

Rear digital camera

50-megapixel f/1.6 (Vast), 50-megapixel f/3.0 (Tele), 40-megapixel f/2.2 (Extremely Vast)

Dimensions

156.6 x 74.0 x 9.2mm (Folded), 156.6 x 145.3 x 4.35mm (Unfolded)

Colours

Black, Inexperienced, Reddish Brown

Weight

226g

IP Ranking

IPX8

Launch

September fifth, 2024

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Honor MagicBook Artwork 14 laptop computer

A brilliant skinny AI-powered laptop computer

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Honor sees its newest laptop computer in an identical gentle to its foldable cellphone. Just like the Magic V3, it’s extremely slim and light-weight. The corporate calls the end result a “marvel of light-weight engineering” and the “lightest and slimmest AIPC to the market.” Based mostly on the specs, it’s fairly spectacular. The MagicBook Artwork 14, with its 14.6-inch show, weighs solely 2.2 kilos and is simply 0.4 inches thick. For comparability, the most recent MacBook Air 15-inch (M3) weighs 3.3 kilos, although it’s roughly the identical thickness.

The MagicBook Artwork 14 includes a magnesium alloy physique and titanium keyboard, which end in weight financial savings and sturdiness. Honor’s FullView Contact Show includes a 3.1K decision and 97% screen-to-body ratio, which it claims is the biggest amongst 14-inch laptops. That small of a bezel really maximizes display actual property and leads to a extra immersive expertise. Like its new cellphone, Honor additionally thought of eye safety with the brand new laptop computer, and it presents options comparable to 4320 Excessive-frequency PWM Dimming, Dynamic Dimming know-how, and E-book Mode to make lengthy viewing classes extra comfy.

After all, it would not be a tech product in 2024 with out some AI options. For the MagicBook Artwork 14, Honor collaborated with Microsoft to supply entry to Copilot features, together with Clever E-mail Administration, information perception & visualization, and Actual-time Transcription and Summarization. Moreover, it presents AI-driven OS Turbo 3.0, which optimizes energy consumption by analyzing how you utilize the pc and adjusting efficiency settings accordingly.

The laptop computer includes a really distinctive modular digital camera design with a removable, magnetic configuration. As a substitute of being constructed into the highest of the show, breaking apart the seamless design, the digital camera magnetically snaps onto the highest of the laptop computer. You may even flip it in both course based mostly on what you want. Laptop computer cameras are a privateness concern for a lot of, and this characteristic will give customers extra management over their laptop computer digital camera. To boost conferences, a bidirectional-enhanced microphone is paired with AI algorithms to scale back background noise and guarantee high-quality sound seize. Moreover, the MagicBook Artwork 14 presents spatial audio with Spatial Reconstruction and Sound High quality Equalization to supply a extra immersive audio expertise.

All the options above are demanding when it comes to efficiency. To deal with this, the MagicBook Artwork 14 is powered by an Intel Core extremely 7 Processor 155H. It options six efficiency cores, eight environment friendly cores, and two low-power environment friendly cores that may turbo enhance the machine to 4.8 GHz. Honor says that the GPU efficiency is doubled from the earlier model, and there is additionally a 70% enhance to AI efficiency. It presents all of the ports you’d count on, together with Thunderbolt 4, USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, and a 3.5mm Headphone/Mic jack. The battery is a heterogeneous battery design that provides a 60Wh capability.

The Honor MagicBook Artwork 14 will solely be obtainable in Europe for roughly 1,246.06 euros. Will probably be obtainable in Emerald Inexperienced, Starry Gray, and white, with a distinct texture end on every shade.

Honor MagicBook Artwork 14

The Honor MagicBook Artwork 14 is an incredibly slim and light-weight laptop computer with built-in AI options. It additionally makes use of a novel modular digital camera that’s connected magnetically to maximise privateness and the seamless design. 

Working System

Home windows 11 House

CPU

Intel Core Extremely 5 processor 125H

Storage

1TB

Battery

60Wh

Show (Measurement, Decision)

14.6-inches, 3120×2080 pixel decision

Digital camera

1080P FHD Hidden Magnetic digital camera

Colours

Emerald Inexperienced, Starry Gray and White

Reminiscence

16GB

Ports

Thunderbolt 4, USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, and a 3.5mm headphone/mic jack

Dimensions

316.77 x 223.63 x 11.5 mm

Weight

2.2 lbs

Model

Honor

Webcam

Hidden Magnetic digital camera

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The Honor MagicPad2 pill

A light-weight, multimedia-focused pill

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Subsequent up in Honor’s new lineup is the MagicPad2 pill. As you doubtless count on at this level, it options an ultra-thin design, coming in at 0.32 inches thick and weighing 1.2 kilos. The slim design will make it even simpler to journey with, barely including any weight or bulk to your bag. It includes a 12.3-inch Honor Eye Consolation Show with a 144Hz refresh price. Like Honor’s different merchandise, the corporate centered on eye-friendly show design, providing the identical AI Defocus Show, 4320Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, Circadian Night time Show, and Dynamic Dimming functionalities to guard your eyes and make for a extra comfy viewing expertise.

Past the visible expertise, this pill additionally presents improved audio. The MagicPad2 is IMAX-Enhanced licensed, leading to a high-quality leisure expertise with wonderful image high quality and DTS audio. Just like the laptop computer, it makes use of Honor’s Spatial Audio Know-how and presents a widened sound area of 35% in comparison with the earlier mannequin.

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Powering the MagicPad2 is the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 flagship platform, which may simply deal with multitasking. There’s additionally a 10050mAh battery, which presents 66W quick charging know-how. The brand new pill runs on MagicOS 8.0, which, unsurprisingly, presents highly effective AI capabilities. One such characteristic is the power to “predict interplay wants and acknowledge intentions prematurely, permitting customers to generate schedules or extra duties with only a lengthy press and drag.” It additionally presents Voice to Textual content, Handwriting Beautification, and Components Recognition to assist enhance productiveness and effectivity.

Honor did not specify when the Honor MagicPad 2 will likely be obtainable, nevertheless it stated it could be priced at $665 and obtainable in black or white.

Honor MagicPad 2

The Honor MagicPad 2 is an extremely skinny pill with a sturdy listing of AI options to enhance productiveness and your basic expertise with the pill. It presents spatial audio, an extended listing of eye-comfort instruments, and highly effective efficiency. 

Model

Honor

Storage

256 GB

CPU

Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 Cellular Platform

Working System

MagicOS 8.0.1 (Android 14)

Battery

10050 mAh

Show kind

OLED

Colours

Moonlight White and Black

Weight

1.2 lbs

Entrance Digital camera

13MP

Rear Digital camera

9MP

Dimensions

274.5 x 180.5 x 5.8 mm

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The Honor Watch 5 smartwatch

Light-weight design with prolonged battery life

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Lastly, Honor additionally introduced its newest smartwatch, the Honor Watch 5. In step with the theme of this batch of bulletins from Honor, the watch is slim and light-weight, weighing 1.2 ounces and measuring 0.4 inches thick. The Galaxy Watch 7 is barely

The Honor Watch 5 includes a 1.85-inch AMOLED touchscreen shade show with a 450×390-pixel decision and 322 PPI. It includes a silicon-carbon battery with a 480mAh capability, which guarantees as much as 15 days of battery life. That is a large quantity of battery life for a smartwatch. A part of that in depth battery life is because of the Turbo X Sensible Energy Administration, which helps guarantee environment friendly power use.

As we might count on on a smartwatch nowadays, it tracks important well being metrics, comparable to coronary heart price and SpO2 ranges. It makes use of AccuTrack positioning for higher GPS accuracy, so you may monitor your out of doors actions with extra precision.

The Honor Watch 5 is available in black, gold, and inexperienced, however Honor did not present any extra particulars about pricing or availability.