Hey, what’s up? Sami here.
Today we are going to take a quick look at the Honor 50 series: the Honor 50 Pro, Honor
50 and Honor 50 SE.
After my several minutes with the phones, to be honest, they are quite boring.
Want to know why, please subscribe to my channel and watch on while I tell you my first impression.
All three come with 120Hz displays, 108MP main cams and up to 100W fast charging.
There is really nothing too new about them, but I guess these phones mean a lot to Honor
as they are the first devices from the company which will ship with Google Mobile Services
(“GMS”) support out the box in over a year.
Honor hasn’t been able to ship Google’s apps and services, including the Google Play
Store, on its phones since its former parent company Huawei was placed on the US’s entity list,
forcing Google to pull its Android license.
What’s changed with the 50 series is that Huawei sold off Honor at the end of last year,
allowing the company to work with Google once again.
Huawei, meanwhile, is still unable to use Google’s software and is positioning its
own HarmonyOS as a replacement.
Turning to the devices themselves, the most eye-catching thing about the Honor 50 and
Honor 50 Pro are their rear cameras, which are arranged into a pair of circular bumps.
The phones have four rear cameras in total, including a 108-megapixel main camera, an
8-megapixel wide-angle, a 2-megapixel macro, and a 2-megapixel depth camera.
On the front, the Honor 50 Pro has a pair of selfie cameras, combining a 32-megapixel
camera with a 12-megapixel ultrawide, while the Honor 50 just has a single 32-megapixel
camera.
For me I normally don’t take selfies that much but I guess most girls will like it as
Honor offers this kind of beauty and bokeh effect, seems really nice.
Also Honor is touting special Vlog modes which capture video from the front and back cameras
simultaneously.
That’s an interesting feature but I was wondering how we are going to edit videos
like this.
The Honor 50 Pro packs a curved 6.72-inch 10-bit AMOLED display with FHD+ resolution
and 120Hz refresh rate.
The display brings 300Hz touch sampling rate, dynamic refresh rate which should help with
battery life.
Internally, the Honor 50 Pro and 50 are the first smartphones to use Qualcomm’s new
778G mobile platform which brings a Kryo 670 CPU paired with an Adreno 642L GPU for performance
close to the Snapdragon 780G.
The SoC is paired with 8 or 12GB RAM.
For the regular Honor 50 dials back to a 6.57-inch panel with the same core specs but with a
different battery capacity.
The 50 Pro has a 4,000mAh battery that can be fast charged at up to 100W, while the regular
50 has a 4,300mAh battery and supports 66W fast charging.
The software front is covered by Magic UI 4.2 based on Android 11.
For colors, they are available in silver, bronze, green, and black.
The Honor 50 SE brings a flat 6.78-inch LCD with a 120Hz refresh rate and a single punch
hole for the 16MP selfie shooter.
The back houses the same 108MP main cam from the more expensive models alongside an 8MP
ultrawide cam and a 2MP macro cam.
The big change comes in the SoC department where the Honor 50 SE packs Mediatek’s Dimensity
900 platform paired with 8GB RAM and 128GB storage.
The phone brings a 4,000 mAh battery with 66W wired charging.
It boots Magic UI 4.2 based on Android 11.
For me, the Honor 50 SE has one astonishing feature that stands out the three is its super
narrow bezel, it’s crazily narrow and looks awesome.
Do you like it?
Alright, that’s the first look of the Honor 50 series.
I hope you liked it and please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t.
I’m Sami and I will see you in the next one.