Smartphones are evolving every day. While some brands focus on the camera to give you the best selfies, others strive to improve the phone’s performance. Then there are those who create a powerful device that rides high on innovation, technology and design and also has an impressive camera. If you haven’t guessed it yet, we’re talking about Honor’s Magic 2.
Honor Magic 2 was recently launched in China. This flagship device comes loaded with features and strikes the right balance between performance and specs. The phone’s technology is sure to wow smartphone lovers everywhere. Now you might be already wondering what’s so special about this phone? We’ve got you covered.
1. Powered by Kirin 980
The most important thing in a smartphone is the thing that drives it - the processor. This will be the first Honor smartphone powered by the most advanced chip-set - the HiSilicon Kirin 980 processor. This beast of a phone is fabricated on world’s first 7 nm technology. Before you ask, let me clarify that this high-performance processor is the world’s first dual-core NPU processor that offers some serious AI capabilities like enabling a 60+ scene recognition in camera. That’s not all, though. It also has an AI in video mode and is able to recognize 4,500 images per minute. All this for a better real-time image and object recognition. Honor Magic 2 is available in 6 GB and 8 GB RAM variants. You can expect a super-smooth gaming experience on this device. It comes with a 3500 mAh battery that lasts you all day, a 40W ‘Magic Charger’ and 15 layers of protection.
2. Artificial Intelligence winning the game
Honor Magic 2 has the most powerful AI processing capabilities and better real time image and object recognition. Imagine getting a 4500 pictures/minute image recognition. That’s what the AI is bringing to the table.
3. Enhanced screen-to-body ratio
Remember the good old days when slider phones were a thing? Well, the Honor Magic 2 is also a slider phone. However, here the slider is used to hide the front-facing camera. Now that’s a rather innovative way to offer nearly 100% screen-to-body ratio. With the ‘World’s first Magic-slide Fullview Display’, the Honor Magic 2 flaunts a 6.39-inch Magic Slide full-view AMOLED display. With an optical in-display fingerprint scanner hidden under the screen and a 100 percent screen to body ratio will open the door for a spectacular visual experience.
4. Notchless design you will fall in love with
If you’re not a fan of the notch display, then this is the phone you’ve been waiting for. One of the most striking things about the Honor Magic 2 is the full view display, with a screen size of 6.39’’. This also means clean aspect ratio, no bulges and most importantly, no notches. Want a selfie? Just slide down and dive right into the world of AI. Magic is real and it’s there in the Honor Magic 2. We won’t be surprised if this slide feature becomes the next big trend to hit the world of smartphones.
5. Click the best selfies with AI camera
The Honor Magic 2 has an ambitious triple camera set-up on the rear panel with AI that lets you up your photography game. It sports a 24 MP snapper aided with 16 MP, f/1.8 and a 16 MP, f/2.2 sensors. It can capture 2160p and 1080p videos at 30 fps along with 720p at 480 fps. Slide, and the front part goes down to unveil three cameras. A 16 MP, f/2.0 main camera aided with dual 2.4 MP f/2.4 depth sensors that gives you flawless selfies. It has a dual ISP which gives an overall improvement to the camera performance. Also, the recording latency has been improved which means the video recording will be much better. The night mode on the Magic 2 is quite crazy. Even if you capture moments in pitch darkness, they turn out quite well.
6. Enjoy a superlative video experience
The display is FHD+ and the screen is OLED which packs up to 16 million colours. It comes with a whopping 6.39” screen which has a resolution of 1080x2340. Simply put, you’ll now be enjoying HD videos the way they are meant to be. Since it has world’s first Cortex-A76 based CPU which makes its performance 75 percent better. Not only this, but the Mali-G76 GPU increases the gaming performance by 46 percent so that you can have some next level gaming experience.
7. YOYO is here because ‘You need it’
With Honor Magic 2, Honor’s also introducing us with their very own virtual assistant - YOYO. What’s up with this latest addition that’s all set to give some real competition to other virtual assistants, you ask? Well, this one has computer vision, natural language processing, machine learning capabilities, as well as decision and recommendation systems to give you the best possible experience. That’s not all, though. It can learn and progress over time by understanding the user’s requirements and phone’s usage. I am pretty sure this YOYO is enough to make the Honor Magic 2 the smartest AI phone available.
Now you know why all those who’ve used the Honor Magic 2 can’t stop raving about its technology. It brings you nothing but the best. Major props to Honor for bringing out this benchmark device and giving its peers some major goals.
Disclaimer: This smartphone is not launching in India.
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