Honor 6 comes with ‘Magic capsule’ know-how. (Image: Honor)
Honor Magic 6, its newest flagship—introduced throughout Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit—means that you can management it utilizing your eyes. Here’s what it’s essential to know.
It is sort of seldom that we see cellphone reveals that do one thing really completely different—whether or not it’s the Soli radar when Google launched the Pixel 4 or the Dynamic Island that debuted with the iPhone 14 Pro. And now, the Honor Magic 6 has caught our consideration with its skill to trace your eyes to regulate apps.
Yes, Honor’s newest flagship—introduced throughout Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit—means that you can management it utilizing your eyes. Honor is looking it the ‘Magic Capsule,’ and within the tech demo proven by the model, we are able to observe a lady interacting with the Uber utility. Once she modifies her gaze, the appliance opens in full.
According to Honor, the know-how includes “eye-tracking-based multimodal interaction,” and it definitely appears to be like promising from what we noticed within the demo. However, it stays to be seen how practical this could possibly be in actual life and what sorts of interactions app makers can give you—particularly for such a distinct segment product.
In the previous, we noticed Google energy the Pixel 4 with the army-grade Soli Radar. It’s secure to say that regardless of the preliminary promise, which concerned the flexibility to regulate the system with hand gestures—the know-how by no means actually took off, and Google dropped help within the subsequent era itself when the Pixel 5 was launched. Here’s hoping that Honor might convey a unique expertise that is still practical.
Notably, Honor additionally revealed different particulars concerning the Honor Magic 6. Like among the different upcoming flagships, such because the iQOO 12 and OnePlus 12, which will probably be powered by the most recent Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Honor Magic 6 may also function this highly effective chipset.
Additionally, the Honor Magic 6 receives a justifiable share of generative AI help because of the mixing of Qualcomm’s on-system Large Language Model (LLM). The major use case is AI video era; you possibly can create fast movies utilizing this know-how when you submit prompts to the YOYO assistant. “Users can easily create short videos featuring photos and footage stored on their devices. Templates, themes and music of the generated videos can also be customized with additional prompts for personalized results,” Honor notes.
On that observe, Honor hasn’t given us a launch date or perhaps a window but; so it could possibly be some time earlier than we see the cellphone touchdown up in individuals’s fingers.
In associated information, Honor made a comeback within the Indian market final month, when it launched the Honor 90, an higher mid-vary system. It comes with a 6.7-inch quad-curved AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh price. It is powered by Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset with as much as 12GB of RAM, and as much as 256GB of UFS 3.1 inbuilt storage.
