Honor had a big event in China today, where it unveiled the Porsche Design Magic6 RSR smartphone - the new top dog among the company's conventional bar lineup. It comes with a hexagon camera island, developed in collaboration with the popular design house. Alongside it we saw the arrival of Magic6 Ultimate, which was also inspired by the luxury car brand but came with a different back panel design, incorporating a composite fiber material.
The new duo packs an improved H9800 main
camera sensor, which retains the 50 MP resolution, but promises improved 15EV
dynamic range. Honor also claims the Magic6 RSR autofocus is improved for
faster and more accurate focus locks.
The Porsche Design Honor Magic6 RSR also
sports a new dual-layer OLED Tandem Display designed to extend the screen
lifespan by up to 600%, according to the company. It is also supposed to
minimize the display brightness degradation to less than 1% after three years
of use. Honor Magic6 RSR comes in the Frozen Berry color which sounds familiar
because it is the hero color of the Porsche Taycan, which you can find more
about on our sister website ArenaEV.com. It is also available in Agate Grey, a
classic paint job in generations of Porsche 911 race cars. Honor used JuRhino
Glass at the front and bottom to protect both the screen and the lovely back.
Honor Magic6 Ultimate is essentially the
same phone as the RSR edition, but comes with a more modest retail package and
a different back. The Magic6 RSR is available to order in China with 24 GB RAM
and 1 TB storage, the most in an Honor smartphone ever. It costs CNY 9,999
(US$ 1,400) - that's a lot more expensive than any regular Magic6 Pro (the
16 GB/1TB trim of that one is currently CNY 6,699, which is about US$ 930). Sales
of the RSR outside China will begin in Q2.
The Magic6 Ultimate is a slightly more
affordable product. It comes in two colors - Black and Purple, and costs
CNY 6,999 (US$ 970) for the 16/512 GB version or CNY 7,699 (nearly US$ 1,100) for the
16 GB/1 TB option.
The company also introduced to the local
audience the MagicBook Pro 16, a laptop we recently reviewed in full. You can
read more about the Core Ultra 7 155H-powered device with Nvidia 4060 GPU here.
This one was confirmed to go on sale globally in Q2 of this year, which starts
in 3 weeks.
