Honor, a former Huawei sub-brand that recently went independent, has confirmed that it will host an event to unveil the flagship Honor V40 smartphone series on January 18 in China.Ā Now the company has posted the first teaser for the Honor V40 on social media. The teaser says that the Honor V40 is equipped with an ultra-sensitive screen that can display a billion colors.
The smartphone has a curved edge screen and a cutout in the upper left corner to accommodate two camera sensors. It is expected to have a 6.72-inch OLED panel and support 120Hz refresh rate. A fingerprint scanner is built under the surface of the screen.
It will run the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ SoC with 5G support. The smartphone will receive 8 GB of LPDDR4x RAM, as well as 128 GB or 256 GB of UFS 2.1 flash memory. The previous image confirmed that the main camera sensor has a resolution of 50MP.
The Honor V40 is to support 66W wired fast charging and 45W wireless charging. The device will run Android 11 operating system with its own Magic UI 4.0 user interface.
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Honor V40 with Mediatek Dimensity 1000+ SoC Spotted on Geekbench
As you might know that Honor is gearing up for the launch of its flagship Honor V40 series on 18th January in China. Honor V40 series will come in three models. Honor V40, Honor V40 Pro, and Honor V40 Pro+. There are a lot of leaks and reports coming related to the Honor V40 series. Recently, Honor V40 with model number Honor YOK-AN10 spotted on GeekBench.
In GeekBench listing Honor V40 gets 468 points in single-core testing and 2061 in multi-core testing. According to the listing, the smartphone pairs 8GB of RAM and runs on Android 10. Honor V40 is running an octa-core Mediatek Dimensity 1000+ SoC. The smartphone also has 5G support. Recently, the smartphone also passed through Rheinlandās safe fast-charging certification with the same model number. According to Rheinlandās certificate Honor V40 will support 50W wireless fast charging support.
Honor V40 Specification (expected)
It should feature a 6.72-inch OLED display with a 2676 x 1236 pixel resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ SoC powers the Honor V40. In optics, Honor V40 packs a quad-camera setup at the back. It includes 50MP primary camera, an 8MP ultrawide angle camera, a 2MP macro camera, and a 2MP depth sensor.
Talking about the front camera, there will be a dual-camera setup that includes a 32MP primary camera along with a 16MP camera. An official teaser image posted on Weibo confirms that the smartphone will have a pill-shaped cutout at the top-left corner of the Honor V40, like Huawei Mate 40 Pro.
Honor V40 series runs on the Magic UI 4.0 + Huawei Mobile Services based on Android 10. The smartphone may feature a 4,000mAh battery with 66W wired fast charging support. Moreover, Honor V40 will also come with 45W wireless fast charging support.
As there is a full one week in launch of Honor V40 series. We expect to have some more leaks and information about the new Honor’s flagship series. So stay connected with us.
