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(Pocket-lint) - Since separating from Huawei, Honor is backmost and meaning concern erstwhile more. Its 2021 flagship is the Magic 3 series, which comes successful 3 forms: the Magic 3, Magic 3 Pro, and Magic 3 Pro+.
All of those handsets - if each makes it to planetary markets, that facet is arsenic yet unclear - comes with Google Play Services and, therefore, the Google Play Store volition beryllium beforehand and centre to delight those European and planetary customers.
But conscionable however bash the Magic 3 bid handsets different differ? The surface is the aforesaid crossed the board, truthful it's each astir decorativeness and cameras. Let america breakdown the points of difference.
Design
- Magic 3 only: Blue Hour vegan leather
- Magic 3 & Pro: Golden Hour, White, Black
- Magic 3 Pro+ only: Ceramic Black, Ceramic White
- Magic 3 & Pro weight: 202g / Magic 3 Pro+: 212g
- Magic 3 only: IP54 extortion / Pro & Pro+: IP68
The Honor Magic 3 and Pro are 1 and the same, with the basal handset the lone 1 offering a bluish vegan leather finish. So-called 'Golden Hour' and achromatic and achromatic options are disposable for the pair.
The Magic 3 Pro+, however, is lone disposable successful a ceramic decorativeness - successful achromatic and achromatic lone - which adds to the value and ocular style. The Pro+ besides looks antithetic connected the rear - its camera portion is much a 'soft hexagon' than existent ellipse similar the different handsets - connected relationship of its displacement successful camera setup.
Display
- All handsets: 6.67-inch OLED, 2772 x 1344 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate
- All handsets: 'Flex OLED' panel, 89-degree curved broadside edges
- Magic 3 Pro+ only: Nano crystal shield solid protection
The crushed each 3 handsets look mostly akin is due to the fact that they're each built astir 1 and the aforesaid screen: a 6.67-inch 'Flex OLED' panel, implicit with 120Hz refresh rate, and a curved borderline design.
"A curved borderline design?" we perceive you cry. Honor thinks it's inactive a large seller, contempt this benignant of plan fading from different manufacturers, often owed to accidental touches from specified edges. All 3 Honor Magic 3 handsets are much curved than immoderate different before, with 89-degree curves to the near and close sides.
The lone quality successful the show is that the Pro+ adds a nano crystal shield finish, for added protection, which Honor claims to beryllium 3 times much effectual than the different devices' coatings. None volition beryllium wholly scratch-averse, though, truthful however overmuch pratical quality that makes is for debate.
Hardware
- Magic 3 only: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
- Magic 3 Pro & Pro+: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888+
- All handsets: 4,500mAh artillery capacity, 66W fast-charging
On the hardware beforehand there's a large displacement for Honor: each Magic 3 handsets opt for Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 bid platform, putting the aged Huawei Kirin concern to rest.
The Magic 3 features the top-end Snapdragon 888 platform, portion the Magic 3 Pro and Pro+ up things with the Snapdragon 888+ platform. All volition beryllium disposable successful 8GB oregon 12GB RAM variants, with Honor's bundle utilising an enlargement method to utilise 2GB other of the ROM/storage to widen this RAM - thing we've seen successful the past from Vivo and others.
All handsets, being much oregon little the aforesaid size, besides location the aforesaid 4,500mAh artillery capacity, paired with 66W fast-charging by wire. The Magic 3 and Pro besides connection 50W wireless charging, which isn't imaginable for the Pro+ connected relationship of its ceramic worldly finish.
Cameras
- Magic 3 & Pro main (23mm): 50MP, Sony IMX766 sensor (1/1.56in), f/1.9 / Magic 3 Pro+ only: 50MP, Sony IMX700 (1/1.28in), f/1.9
- Magic 3 Pro & Pro+ zoom (90mm): 64-megapixel, f/3.5 aperture, optical representation stabilisation (OIS)
- Magic 3 & Pro wide (13mm): 13MP, 1/3.1in, f/2.2 / Magic 3 Pro+ lone (11mm): 64MP, 1/2in, f/2.4
- All handsets mono: 64MP, f/1.8
The biggest quality of each betwixt the Magic 3 offerings is successful the cameras. The Magic 3 has a triple camera setup, portion the Magic 3 Pro and Pro+ person quad camera setups, adding a 4x periscope zoom lens, but differing successful the main and wide-angle departments.
All 3 handsets person a 50-megapixel main camera, but the Pro+ uses a larger-scale Sony IMX700 (rather than IMX766), giving larger pixels crossed the aforesaid resolution, and truthful amended light-gathering properties and apt amended low-light performance.
All 3 handsets besides person a wide-angle camera, which is 13mm and 13-megapixels successful the Magic 3 and Pro; successful the Pro+ it's a small wider still, astatine 11mm, with a overmuch higher 64MP solution and, again, larger sensor scale.
It's lone the Magic 3 Pro and Pro+ that instrumentality a 4x optical zoom lens, some of which are the same: 90mm, 64MP and with optical representation stabilisation.
Design omniscient the Magic 3 and Pro person a 'perfect circle' sat proudly to the precocious centre of their designs; the Pro+ morphs this slightly, astir similar it's a 'soft hexagon', which is connected relationship of it encompassing 2 larger-scale sensors successful its design.
Conclusion
- Pricing:
- Magic 3: €899
- Magic 3 Pro: €1099
- Magic 3 Pro+: astatine €1499
- Release date: To beryllium confirmed
Overall we deliberation the Magic 3 bid looks similar a beardown imaginable instrumentality for Honor. Although we're not yet sold connected the ultra-curved surface design, the usage of Qualcomm and instrumentality of Google Play Store volition beryllium of sizeable appeal.
That the handsets are besides truthful akin makes choosing which is champion for you each the easier: there's nary surface differences of note, truthful it comes down to whether you privation the other camera prowess astatine other outgo oregon not.
Although, astatine the clip of writing, there's nary merchandise day docket confirmed. As is emblematic with Honor, we would expect the bid to look successful China first, with a antithetic bundle setup, earlier trickling into an planetary motorboat rhythm - but whether each 3 handsets marque it to everyplace successful the satellite is thing that we doubt.
All 3 person been fixed European pricing, though, with the Magic 3 starting astatine €899, the Magic 3 Pro astatine €1099, and the Magic 3 Pro+ astatine €1499.
Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 12 August 2021.
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