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Honor Releases Mid-Range Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro
Honor held a launch conference where it unveiled a number of products which include the Honor 50, Honor 50 Pro, Honor 50 SE, and the Honor Earbuds 2 SE. No doubt, the Honor 50 and 50 Pro are the star products among the lot. Apart from packing premium designs, the two models are designed specifically for high performance.
Honor held a launch conference where it unveiled a number of products which include the Honor 50, Honor 50 Pro, Honor 50 SE, and the Honor Earbuds 2 SE. No doubt, the Honor 50 and 50 Pro are the star products among the lot. Apart from packing premium designs, the two models are designed specifically for high performance.
The Honor 50 features a 6.57-inch OLED curved screen that supports a 120Hz screen refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling rate. The display utilizes a single punch-hole design located centrally at the top of the screen. On the other hand, the Honor 50 Pro sports a 6.72-inch display but it has a dual punch-hole design on the top left corner of the screen. Other aspects are the same as the Honor 50.
The back design of the Honor 50 series is inspired by Rollei’s double-reflex cameras. The lens module adopts a dual-lens layout and uses a Cartier-like ring design around the main lens. In terms of performance, the camera focuses on one-stop Vlog video shooting, and the mobile phone supports six multi-lens video shooting modes including “fast-slow motion resuming” and “single and double lens resuming”.
The Honor 50 Pro dual front camera setup consists of a 12-megapixel video lens and a 32-megapixel selfie lens. The selfie camera setup supports 100° ultra-wide-angle video shooting and Selfie super night scene functions. The Honor 50 features a 32-megapixel selfie lens. At the rear aspect, both models pack a similar camera configuration. The rear setup is a 100-megapixel quad-camera setup of which the main camera is a 100-megapixel main camera teaming up with an 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, a 2-megapixel macro, and another 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens.
The Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G mobile platform, which uses 6nm process technology and a Kryo 670 architecture. The CPU is made up of a single 2.4GHz super core, three 2.2GHz large cores, and four 1.9GHz small cores. For graphics, the 5G-enabled processor integrates the Adreno 642L GPU. Compared with the previous generation, the Snapdragon 778’s performance and graphics rendering speed are improved by 45%. In addition, Honor’s GPU Turbo X and Link Turbo technologies are also adapted to the Snapdragon platform.
In other respects, the Honor 50 Pro is equipped with a 4000mAh battery that supports 100W wired fast charging. The Honor 50 is equipped with a slightly bigger 4300mAh battery that supports 66W wired fast charging. Both models run on Magic UI 4.2 based on Android 11 and feature support for NFC. In terms of color options, the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro come in four colors: first snow crystal, summer amber, black jade green, and bright black. The Honor 50 8GB+128GB is priced at 2699 yuan (~$422), the 8GB+256GB is priced at 2999 yuan (~$469), and the 12GB+256GB is priced at 3399 yuan (~$531). On the other hand, the Honor 50 Pro 8GB+256GB is priced at 3699 yuan (~$578), 12GB+256GB is priced at 3999 yuan (~$625). The models are expected to go on sale on June 25.
The Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G mobile platform, which uses 6nm process technology and a Kryo 670 architecture. The CPU is made up of a single 2.4GHz super core, three 2.2GHz large cores, and four 1.9GHz small cores. For graphics, the 5G-enabled processor integrates the Adreno 642L GPU. Compared with the previous generation, the Snapdragon 778’s performance and graphics rendering speed are improved by 45%. In addition, Honor’s GPU Turbo X and Link Turbo technologies are also adapted to the Snapdragon platform.
In other respects, the Honor 50 Pro is equipped with a 4000mAh battery that supports 100W wired fast charging. The Honor 50 is equipped with a slightly bigger 4300mAh battery that supports 66W wired fast charging. Both models run on Magic UI 4.2 based on Android 11 and feature support for NFC. In terms of color options, the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro come in four colors: first snow crystal, summer amber, black jade green, and bright black. The Honor 50 8GB+128GB is priced at 2699 yuan (~$422), the 8GB+256GB is priced at 2999 yuan (~$469), and the 12GB+256GB is priced at 3399 yuan (~$531). On the other hand, the Honor 50 Pro 8GB+256GB is priced at 3699 yuan (~$578), 12GB+256GB is priced at 3999 yuan (~$625). The models are expected to go on sale on June 25.