Honor at the continuing Mobile World Congress 2023 (MWC 2023) in Barcelona, Spain, introduced what it claims to be the business’s first silicon-carbon battery. While it wasn’t a standalone announcement, it’s a massive deal within the smartphone house as few corporations have sought to change over to one thing new. Honor CEO, George Zhao, in his quick briefing barely touched upon the options about Honor’s new battery expertise, but in addition defined {that a} smartphone with this kind of battery can be coming quickly, hinting that it is simply introduced Honor Magic 5 Pro smartphone additionally takes benefit of the identical expertise.
During the MWC 2023 announcement of the Honor Magic Series, CEO George Zhao put up the announcement of the corporate’s new flagship providing, the Honor Magic 5 Pro, additionally make clear the corporate’s new battery expertise. Honor claims that it has readied the business’s first silicon-carbon battery and that the corporate has already used the expertise in its simply introduced Honor Magic 5 Pro, serving to improve the cellphone’s battery capability to five,450mAh on the Chinese mannequin. Interestingly, Honor’s official web site clearly states that the 5,540mAh battery provided on the China mannequin makes use of Li-Ion expertise. So, it is not clear whether or not the corporate plans to switch the Li-Ion expertise with its new expertise at a later date in the identical product.
Coming to the benefits, Zhao at the launch defined that Honor’s silicon-carbon battery may help enhance the battery’s power density by 12.8 p.c. He additionally defined how the brand new battery expertise may help in terms of saving house and in addition bettering a smartphone’s battery capability.
The Honor CEO at the temporary announcement additionally defined how common graphite batteries underperform when the battery voltage drops beneath 3.5V. On the flipside, Honor’s silicon-carbon battery because of its Low Voltage Aggregation Technology and its larger capability can final loads longer. Honor claims that its Low Voltage Aggregation expertise gives 240 p.c improve in energy in comparison with an everyday graphite-based battery underneath the identical situations.
Honor’s Magic 5 Pro smartphone, which was introduced previous to the above battery announcement, is the corporate’s flagship system. The Honor Magic 5 Pro has a 6.81-inch OLED show. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC and runs Honor’s MagicOS 7.1, which is predicated on Android 13. The cellphone gives three rear going through cameras that embody a 50-megapixel major digicam, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle digicam, and one other 50-megapixel telephoto digicam. On the entrance, there is a 12-megapixel selfie digicam accompanied by a 3D depth digicam as effectively. The international variant of the system gives a 5,100mAh battery that helps 66W wired charging and 50W wi-fi charging. Honor additionally introduced a extra inexpensive Magic 5 smartphone and a Honor Magic Vs for international markets.
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