Honor has announced the upcoming launch of the first three smartphones in its new mid-range Honor 50 series, initially in China. In a statement, the company confirmed that the Honor 50 Pro, Honor 50 and Honor 50 SE will be its first devices to ship with Google Mobile Services preinstalled in over a year. Honor has been unable to ship Google’s apps and services on its devices since parent company Huawei was placed on the United States entity list but the situation has now changed in the wake of Honor’s sale.
All three new Honor handsets come with 120Hz displays, four rear cameras and up to 100W fast charging. The Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro are the first phones powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 778G chipset, while the Honor 50 SE comes with the Mediatek’s Dimensity 900. The Pro model features a 6.72-inch 10-bit Amoled display with a 120Hz refresh rate and 300Hz touch sampling. It also has two selfie cameras (32MP main + 12MP ultrawide) and the quad-sensor array in a pair of circular camera bumps on the back.
The Honor 50, meanwhile, has a 6.57-inch display and a single 32MP selfie camera plus a larger 4,300 mAh battery with 66W charging, compared with a 4,000 mAh cell for the Pro model. The Honor 50 SE has a 6.78-inch LCD screen and a single 16MP camera on the front, with the same 108MP main sensor on the back, plus 8MP ultrawide and 2MP macro sensors. All three models come with 5G and special Vlog modes to capture video from the front and back cameras at the same time.
Honor said the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Pro will be available for preorder in China from next week for CNY 2,699 and CNY 3,699 respectively and will come to international markets such as France, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the UK at a later date. It added that the Honor 50 SE will be available in China from 02 July at a price of CNY 2,399.
