Global technology brand HONOR today unveiled a brand-new line-up of all-round flagship smartphone—HONOR Magic4 Series in China. The product line-up incorporates multiple cutting-edge technologies to solve users’ pain points and deliver a magical experience to users around the world. HONOR Magic4 Series is composed of three models: HONOR Magic4, HONOR Magic4 Pro and HONOR Magic4 Zhizhen Edition. Pixelworks, Inc., a leading provider of innovative video and display processing solutions, announced that two models of the newly launched HONOR Magic4 Series flagship smartphone, the HONOR Magic4 Pro and HONOR Magic4 Zhizhen Edition, incorporate the Pixelworks X5 Plus advanced visual processor. The HONOR Magic4 Series is the masterpiece of HONOR Magic Series smartphone, which aims to reshape the high-end flagship market with powerful performance and excellent visual enjoyment adaptable to most display scenarios.
According to the information from HONOR’s product launch event, as the smartphone with the top configuration among the HONOR Magic4 Series, the HONOR Magic4 Zhizhen Edition is highly competitive for its cutting-edge performance. In terms of hardware, the flagship is built on the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 8 Gen 1 mobile platform, powered by its self-innovated GPU Turbo X technology and Pixelworks’ fifth generation visual processor, which unlocks the full potential of hardware performance with well-balanced power consumption. For the camera, the flagship features Ultra Fusion Photography and Magic-Log mode function, which supports capturing HD photos while recording video. Specific to the display, the smartphone features a 6.81-inch flexible AMOLED screen with maximum resolution of 2848×1312 pixels, and combines LTPO 1~120Hz adaptive refresh rate and 1920Hz PWM dimming technology.
Powered by Pixelworks X5 Plus visual processor, HONOR Magic4 Pro and HONOR Magic4 Zhizhen Edition flagships bring users multiple upgraded visual display attributes, including:
Dual MotionEngine® Technology— Pixelworks Dual MotionEngine® (MEMC) technology uses parallel processing that produces superior visual quality across a wide range of content, video formats, frame rates and multimedia Apps. The technology boosts the frame rate of video content to 60Hz and game content to 120Hz, which provides flicker-free video quality and ultra-low latency gaming experience. Meanwhile, Pixelworks distributed processing offloads GPU workload to reduce overall system power consumption, which prevents overheating and extends game play on mobile devices. These benefits can be utilized across multiple mainstream video Apps, such as iQIYI, Tencent, Youku and BiliBili, and more than 10 popular mobile games, including Honkai Impact 3, Genshin Impact, King of Glory, The Magic Blade and Game for Peace.
Always-HDR mode – Pixelworks uses real-time SDR-to-HDR conversion to expose more details and shades of color for the vast majority of existing gaming content, which is often in SDR (standard dynamic range) format to enable an always-immersive experience.
Adaptive HDR – Provides precision tone mapping for HDR 10 and HDR 10+ content and dynamically adjusts display attributes such as display brightness, tone mapping adaptive with different content types and ambient brightness to achieve high-precision HDR quality with enhanced details and expanded color scales. This function is available on video Apps including iQIYI and Tencent.