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Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Unexpectedly, the Honor Magic 4 series was officially launched before the first quarter, which can be seen that after that period of time, Honor's determination to catch up is quite firm. On March 17, Glory officially released the Magic4 series in China, and many people felt some familiar shadows from its appearance, but they did not know that its inner qiankun had been reborn.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Honor Magic4 Pro

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

A new generation of Snapdragon 8 flagship platform

We take the Honor Magic4 Pro as an example, equipped with a new generation of Snapdragon 8 flagship platform of the Honor Magic4 Pro in many aspects are called the industry benchmark, in order to be able to stand out in the new products equipped with the Snapdragon 8 platform in the same period, it can be said that the Glory Magic4 Pro will be the current flagship model with the functions are very complete, will also be the Snapdragon 8 powerful performance and comprehensive experience to the extreme. I have to say that in terms of hardware configuration, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform provides a better background for Honor. Snapdragon 8 mobile platform is the most advanced 4nm process in the current commercial level, the new Kryo CPU integrated Arm Cortex X2 super core, compared with the previous generation of Snapdragon 888 performance increased by up to 20%, so compared to the Honor Magic3 series, honor Magic4 series upgrade is traceable.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Honor Magic4 Pro screen configuration

In terms of screen selection, honor magic4 Pro is equipped with a 120Hz refresh rate, 1312P resolution 6.81-inch LTPO screen, support 1.07 billion color display, and 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming. At this point, honor Magic4 Pro did not choose to simply increase the adaptation to the LTPO screen, but introduced a new dimming scheme, so that it has a high-frequency dimming basis, so that the color reproduction is more realistic, the visual sense is more comfortable, especially in the experience is more eye-protecting and not easy to tired.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

LTPO screen adaptive refresh rate

Here is still to talk about the advantages of LTPO screen, it can be actively adjusted according to the user's currently open application in the screen refresh rate, whether it is standby, reading or game, shooting and other functions to use, can be from 1Hz to 120Hz smooth seamless switching, in addition to the experience is more comfortable, energy consumption is also greatly reduced. To achieve this effect is naturally not enough for the screen alone, which is also inseparable from the support of Snapdragon 8 in AI, the 7th generation of Qualcomm AI engine includes ultra-high performance, ultra-high energy efficiency Qualcomm Hexagon processor, processing speed up to 4 times the previous generation of the platform, resulting in a better experience, of course, this is only a small part of the Ai performance of Snapdragon 8 in the Glory Magic4 Pro embodiment.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Glory Magic4 Pro "Glory of Kings" frame-count performance

In terms of gaming, Honor Magic4 Pro chose the configuration commonly used by the current flagship model, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform + LPDD5 memory and UFS 3.1 flash memory, it is worth mentioning that for the game from the graphics to the experience of the GPU is crucial, the new generation of Snapdragon 8 mobile platform has also been greatly upgraded, the new architecture of the Adreno GPU in the rendering speed increased by 30%, energy efficiency increased by 25%, Vulkan game performance increased by up to 60% , so we can see that the Honor Magic4 Pro performs very consistently in the actual gaming experience. It can be said that the Snapdragon 8 mobile platform and the self-developed Turbo X technology of the Honor Magic4 Pro are integrated in the "soft and hard" parts to create such a high-quality gaming experience.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Honor Magic4 Pro game half hour temperature test

At the same time, we also conducted a temperature test, you can see that after 30 minutes of "Glory of the King" game time, the temperature peak of the Honor Magic4 Pro is only about 39 ° C, which is not very high, and there is no hot feeling when holding, especially our test machine is Pro's exclusive color burning orange, the material is plain leather, and we are still a little worried about whether we will affect the heat dissipation because of the material, but the test results are still satisfactory. The combination of the third generation of graphene + VC liquid cooling technology also allows snapdragon 8 to have a calmer core while maintaining a stable output.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Honor Magic4 Pro Muse Ring Camera

This time honor Magic4 Pro uses a 50mp wide-angle main camera + 50mp ultra-wide-angle main camera + 64mp periscope telephoto camera module, the lens is evenly distributed on the back of the "muse ring", supporting wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, macro and 3.5x optical zoom. The front is a 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle selfie lens and a TOF lens for 3D face unlocking.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth
Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Glory Magic4 Pro sample

Through the sample we can see that the overall imaging effect of the Glory Magic4 Pro is quite high in taking pictures, the highlight recognition and the suppression of the shadow are excellent, presenting a very pure picture, and the distortion control is also very in place, and the edge quality does not have serious picture quality flaws. In addition to taking photos, Honor Magic4 Pro debuted the 4K+60fps+10-bit-log movie mode on the video, in which we can use it to shoot videos with various movie style filters, and at the same time, we can also shoot video footage in log mode, providing more raw data for subsequent creations.

It can be said that whether it is video or photography, snapdragon 8 has Snapdragon Sight Snapdragon imaging technology for honor Magic4 Pro to provide more possibilities, the new Spectra ISP pioneering support 18-bit triple ISP, can capture up to 3.2 billion pixels per second, dynamic range image data volume increased by 4096 times, support the ultimate dynamic range, color and clarity. Snapdragon 8 also fully integrates AI technology in image algorithms for the first time, supporting ai-based real-time face recognition and AAA algorithms. The powerful processing power brought by the Snapdragon 8 Three ISP can fully dispatch the top camera module of the Magic4 series, and combine it with the Glory Multi-Main Camera Fusion Computational Photography Technology to achieve a brighter and clearer imaging experience in scenes such as night scenes, sports and portraits. Snapdragon 8's powerful AI capabilities can be combined with Honor's self-developed HONOR Image Engine image engine to achieve innovative video shooting gameplay such as recording while shooting, recording Chinese and American shooting, and recording multiple times in view of the common pain points of user video shooting, and achieving the wisdom of user shooting experience.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Honor Magic4 Pro

In terms of software, the new Magic UI 6.0 system gives people a refreshing feeling, the redesigned layout and arrangement are more humanized, and the personalized design is combined with a rich ecological architecture, making the Honor Magic4 Pro handle it for you in daily life and work. Here we focus on the honor magic4 pro in the privacy of the functional design, because at this point, honor and Qualcomm in the concept of technology research and development is completely consistent, Magic4 series adhering to the user privacy protection concept, relying on a new generation of Snapdragon 8 vault-level powerful security technology solutions, bringing from the inside out, soft and hard coordination of the system security capabilities.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Honor and Qualcomm dual security certification

Honor Magic4 Pro has a remote lock SIM card outside of lost mode and can reduce the blurred position of positioning exposure, so that we can use it more at ease in daily use, without exposing our personal positioning and information too much. Thanks to the dedicated trust management engine introduced by Snapdragon 8 under the Android operating system, it can support the dual trusted execution environment based on Qualcomm Hypervisor, helping the Honor Magic4 series to become one of the first smartphones to support the dual TEE system, which can protect and isolate sensitive information and achieve end-to-end user information security. This is like adding a "safe" to the mobile phone, hiding the key of personal core information in the safe, and every time you access the mobile phone password, face and other information, you need to open the two locks of the double TEE security system first, and then open the safe to obtain relevant information.

Honor Magic4 Pro Review: The Snapdragon 8 mobile platform brings a rebirth

Dual-unit intelligent collaborative sound technology

At the same time, in order to ensure the absolute privacy and confidentiality of our calls, the "dual-unit intelligent collaborative sounding technology" pioneered by Honor can combine the polyphonic screen and the top earpiece for collaborative sounding, while ensuring the sound quality and timbre, it can also make the sound gathered in the ear, reduce the situation of sound leakage, even if it is in a quiet space to receive the phone, the outside world is difficult to hear the call content, making our calls more private. Achieving two-channel simultaneous occurrence of the delay of mobile phone calls provides a very high challenge, and the strong connection capabilities of Snapdragon 8 also provide a lot of help for this innovative feature.

Since then, we can see that the Honor Magic4 Pro is worthy of recognition in terms of soft and hard power, in addition to meeting the needs of our daily life and entertainment, it also has pragmatic operability in business functions. The top hardware configuration and humanized software design make the Honor Magic4 Pro still have a good competitiveness in today's blossoming domestic Android market.

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