Besides the Honor Magic Vs, the company also released the Honor 80 series of annual flagship phones. The lineup includes three models – the vanilla variant, the Pro version, and the Honor 80 SE.
Honor 80
The Honor 80 comes with a rear camera module that looks like a striking number 8. The phone is available in four colorways: black, green, blue, and pink. Among them, the blue variant adopts a new “3D composite precision engraving process”. In effect, the phone’s rear panel has more than 80 textures precisely engraved on the glass surface with a thickness of only 0.55mm.
On the opposite side, we have a 6.67-inch OLED flexible hyperbolic screen with a resolution of 2400*1080. The display supports a 120Hz refresh rate, 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, a 1.07 billion color display, and DCI-P3 wide color gamut.
Under the hood, this model hosts the world’s first Snapdragon 782G processor. It is the successor of the Snapdragon 778G/+. Thus, the performance should be smooth. By the way, this chip also uses 6nm technology, an octa-core CPU design (1*2.7GHz Cortex-A78 + 3*2.2GHz Cortex-A78 + 4*1.9GHz Cortex A55), and an Adreno 642L GPU.
It is worth mentioning that the Honor 80 is currently the first smartphone coming with a 160-megapixel main camera. However, there are also 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle and 2-megapixel macro lenses.
The built-in 4800mAh battery supports 66W super-fast charging. According to Honor, after turning on the ultra-fast charging mode and charging with the screen off in standby mode, the battery can be charged from 3% to 50% in 15 minutes.
The entire series comes with the MagicOS 7.0 operating system out of the box.
The Honor 80 8GB+256GB is priced at 2699 yuan ($377), 12GB+256GB is priced at 2999 yuan ($418), and 12GB+512GB is priced at 3299 yuan ($460). It will start shipping on December 2.
Honor 80 Pro
The front hole of the Honor 80 Pro is 60% smaller than the iPhone 14 Pro in terms of area. Thus, it wouldn’t block too much content or attract users’ attention too much. While shrinking in size, two cameras on the front also have excellent hardware performance.
The Honor 80 Pro adopts a 50-megapixel main camera and a 2-megapixel depth-of-field lens. It can record 4K@30fps high-definition portrait videos and has a maximum 100° ultra-wide-angle field of view. The front-facing camera of the phone also supports AI optimization.
The machine debuts Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 low-frequency version. The CPU consists of a super-large core of Cortex-X2 at 3.0GHz, 3 large cores of Cortex-A710 2.5GHz, and 4 small cores of Cortex-A510 at 1.8GHz. The hyperbolic screen is 6.78 inches, has a 2700×1224 resolution, and has an OLED material. It has a 4800mAh battery, which supports 66W fast charging.
The Honor 80 Pro’s 8GB + 256GB is priced at 3499 yuan ($488), the 12GB + 256GB model is 3799 yuan ($530), and the 12GB + 512GB variant comes for 4099 yuan ($572).
Honor 80 SE
The third model in the series is the Honor 80 SE.
This phone uses a 6.67-inch OLED hyperbolic screen with a refresh rate of 120Hz and a resolution of 2400×1080. It supports high-frequency dimming at 1920Hz.
Inside, the handset has a MediaTek Dimensity 900 processor. It is paired with up to 12GB of memory and 256GB of native storage. The 4600mAh battery supports 66W fast charging. After testing, the Honor 80 SE can be charged to 80% in just 30 minutes.
The rear camera of the handset has a 64MP resolution, two other lenses, and many AI-enabled features. However, the remaining two sensors do not have high resolutions, only 5MP and 2MP. The front-facing camera has a 32MP resolution.
Like other two models, the Honor 80 SE runs MagicOS 7.0, which deeply optimizes the three levels of process management, memory management and file system.
The 8GB+256GB is priced at 2,399 yuan ($335), while the 12GB+256GB is priced at 2,699 yuan ($376). It will go on sale on December 9.
