Honor surprised the world in February with the global launch of its Honor Magic5 and Honor Magic5 Pro. Rather than keeping these devices timed Chinese exclusives, the Brand brought them to the global stage during MWC 2023. Among them, the Honor Magic5 Pro brought everything we expect from a 2023 flagship plus a powerful camera dubbed “Falcon Camera System”. The carefully-crafted camera is one of the main selling aspects of this phone, and today, Honor decided to share some details about its development.
Honor decided to share some behind-scenes stages of the development of the Honor Magic5 Pro. The goal is to demonstrate how they’ve reached the phone’s level of quality through multiple stages of polishment. Also, we can clearly see how the brand worked hard since its reboot to meet world quality testing standards. Without further ado, let’s check the behind-the-scenes development of the flagship.
The Honor Magic5 Pro Falcon Camera System is the result of 18 months of development
The Falcon Camera System is the result of multiple efforts to build a solid camera R&D department at Honor’s HQ. The brand founded its own dedicated camera labs to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis that informs the development of camera systems. In its labs, the company spent about 18 months making a massive overhaul of the Honor Image Engine. In fact, it has been rebuilt from the ground. It features all-new architecture, source code, and algorithms to match Qualcomm’s mobile platform. The company worked hard to ensure that the Honor Magic5 Pro camera system will benefit from Qualcomm’s AI features.
Since the Honor Magic5 Pro boasts the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, Honor worked closely with Qualcomm to leverage the phone’s camera with all the AI features coming with the SoC. With a larger data cache interval and a solid AI Network, the brand trained the Falcon Camera System with more than 270,000 images.
As a result, the Honor Magic5 Pro can help users more easily to capture their shots even when they are set to record or capture moving moments. To recall, the Honor Magic5 Pro camera was used to record a World Record. It was able to capture a moving scene thanks to multiple rounds of testing. According to the brand, the flagship capabilities represent a 245% upgrade over its predecessor.
The Circadian Display
Besides the Falcon Camera System, Honor is also proud of other tech brought with the Magic5 Pro. The company’s R&D also worked hard to ensure the device’s commitment to Eye Care. With that in mind, the phone was brought to get TUV Rheinland Circadian Friendly Certification.
The phone’s Circadian Night Display brings a sleep-easing mode that regulates the blue light and gently transitions the night-time color temperature in a natural way. As per Honor’s lab tests, the feature can increase melatonin secretion by up to 20% within three hours. In the end, it will help users to get a better night’s sleep.
Similar to the Falcon Camera System, the brand labs also achieved this improvement through years of testing. The brand collected data from more than 10,000 users to build the best display-dimming tech. With the research, the brand was able to develop its Dynamic Dimming Feature. It can lower eye fatigue by 18% after 45 minutes of use.
Honor’s efforts to join the Highest Global Standard of Product Quality
The Honor Magic5 Pro is no doubt a very impressive product fruit of multiple rounds of development. The company certainly wanted to make this an example of its commitment to quality for users. In fact, the brand invested about $20 million in quality testing equipment. Now the brand can run in-house tests to verify more than 200 certification test standards. The brand goes is to go even beyond the standards to ensure the bests product quality for its users.
Honor Magic5 Pro specs recap
To those unaware, the Honor Magic5 Pro boasts a gorgeous 6.81-inch LTPO OLED screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate, HDR10+, and 2,848 x 1,312 pixels of resolution. Under the hood, the phone packs the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 with up to 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. In terms of optics, the Falcon Camera system brings three 50 MP cameras. There is a main 50 MP unit with OIS, a 50 MP periscope shooter with 3.5x optical zoom and 100x hybrid zoom, and a 50 MP ultrawide snapper. The device has a 12 MP ultrawide shooter plus a ToF 3D sensor for biometrics and depth.
Honor’s flagship boasts a 5,100 mAh battery with 66W fast charging and 50W wireless charging. In China, the brand also sells the world’s first unit with a Silicon-carbon battery of 5,450 mAh capacity. The flagship sells for about £949.99. in the UK. For more details about the device, you can check our Review Here.
