Honor Magic9 Series Teased Early: Epic Imaging Upgrade with Joint Tuning by Honor and ARRI

Fast Technology reported that Honor held an imaging technology launch event in Hengdian this morning.

At the press conference, Honor announced that Honor and ARRI will leverage their respective strengths to fully implement Honor’s “chip-device-cloud” full-domain imaging engine, combined with ARRI’s century-old cinematic aesthetics and color science, on Robot Phone. This will realize a complete film creation chain from pre-production shooting to post-production color grading, propelling mobile imaging from parametric competition to the era of film industry creation.

Meanwhile, Honor officially announced that this imaging system will be extended to products such as the Magic9, marking the first time Honor has teased its annual flagship Magic9 series ahead of schedule. According to leaks, the Honor Magic9 series will include at least three models: a standard version, a Pro version, and a Pro Max version. The phone is expected to be released as early as September, featuring an epic upgrade in imaging capabilities.

For the past century, Arri defined the visual language of film with its industry-standard visuals. Today, smartphones have become the most sensitive recorders of our time. When Arri’s industry standards meet Honor’s innovative computing power, professional imaging has a new answer: bidding farewell to overly embellished visual styles and returning to the true essence of images, presenting a wider dynamic range, more precise color control, and more natural skin tones.

The all-new Honor Magic9 series will feature ARRI color science, bringing a new era of cinematic expression to your fingertips and empowering everyone to be the director of their own life. Furthermore, the Honor Magic9 series will be among the first to be equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8E6 series flagship platform.

This chip uses TSMC’s 2nm process and is equipped with Qualcomm’s self-developed Oryon CPU. It adopts an octa-core tri-cluster architecture with 2 super cores, 3 performance cores, and 3 medium cores, sharing 16MB of L2 cache. The Snapdragon 8E6 Pro integrates an Adreno 850 GPU and 18MB of graphics cache, and is the first to support LPDDR6 memory, while also supporting UFS 5.0 flash memory. This will be the most powerful mobile phone chip in the Android camp in terms of overall performance.

With its 2nm flagship SoC and ARRI-tuned imaging system, the Honor Magic9 series is expected to be a strong contender in the high-end flagship market in the second half of the year.