The Honor Magic 5 Professional might properly be some of the thrilling telephones to launch at this yr’s MWC Barcelona – and certainly the Chinese language model’s finest cellular but.

The fast-growing producer has emerged from the shadow of its previous father or mother firm, Huawei, with a mission to compete towards the likes of Samsung and Apple within the premium smartphone market. 

Honor started that mission final yr with the wonderful Honor Magic Four Professional – the model’s first bona fide premium smartphone to launch exterior of China – and we all know {that a} follow-up system, stylized because the Honor Magic5 Professional, will make its debut at MWC 2023. The present, which kicks off on February 27, may even play host to the worldwide launch of the foldable Honor Magic Vs.

Forward of the cellphone’s official announcement, we’ve put collectively this one-stop-shop information to all the newest rumors and confirmed particulars concerning the Honor Magic 5 Professional. Beneath, you’ll discover particulars on its anticipated digital camera, design and efficiency options, in addition to our predictions surrounding its value.

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Honor has teased an AI-powered digital camera mode for the Honor Magic 5 Professional as a part of a current collaboration with Guinness World Information.  

Honor Magic 5 Professional: Launch date

Honor has confirmed (opens in new tab) that it’ll be formally unveiling the Honor Magic 5 collection – which we all know will embrace the Honor Magic 5 Professional – at MWC Barcelona, the annual cellular commerce present. The corporate’s press convention is because of happen at 7:30am ET / 4:30am PT / 2:30pm GMT on February 27, which is 1:30am the next day in Australia. 

In all probability, the Honor Magic 5 Professional will change into accessible to pre-order on that day, with a correct launch date coming a number of months later down the road. Its predecessor, the Magic Four Professional, hit cabinets on Could 13, 2022, so Honor could properly choose for the same date this yr. 

It’s value nothing, although, that the Magic 5 Professional is unlikely to be accessible within the US. Huawei bought Honor in 2020 to keep away from seeing its one-time sub-brand positioned on the US import blacklist, so there’s no authorized motive why Honor couldn’t promote its upcoming flagship throughout the Atlantic, nevertheless it’s not one thing we’ve seen the burgeoning model do as of but. 

The Magic Four Professional is on the market to buy within the UK and Europe, so we’d anticipate Honor to observe go well with by making the Magic 5 Professional accessible in these areas, too. Availability in Australia, nevertheless, appears unlikely.

Honor Magic 5 Professional: Worth

Honor hasn’t but launched pricing info for the Magic 5 Professional – these particulars are more likely to come at MWC Barcelona on February 27. 

Nonetheless, the corporate’s pricing technique for the Magic Four Professional provides us a tough concept about what to anticipate from its subsequent flagship cellphone. Honor launched the Magic Four Professional for £949.99 / €1,099 (which is roughly $1,160 / AUS $1,700), and we don’t anticipate seeing the Magic 5 retail for rather more than that within the UK and Europe. 

Honor Magic 5 Professional: Information and leaks

Naturally, Honor is ready till MWC Barcelona to disclose the ins and outs of the Honor Magic 5 Professional, however that doesn’t imply we’re utterly at the hours of darkness about what to anticipate from the system. 

Let’s begin with the official stuff. We all know what the Magic 5 Professional will appear to be – from the entrance, no less than – due to a current tweet (opens in new tab) from Honor itself. The model collaborated with Guinness World Information to tease the inclusion of an AI-powered digital camera function on the cellphone, sharing a fastidiously positioned picture of the Magic 5 Professional within the course of. 

Primarily based on the above picture, the Honor Magic 5 Professional will intently resemble its predecessor from a front-facing design perspective. We haven’t but seen any official imagery for the rear of the system, however an in depth design render from Twitter leaker @rodent950 (opens in new tab) does counsel that the Magic 5 Professional will function a putting three-camera setup.

#HONORMagic5Pro leaks based mostly idea pic.twitter.com/6Vd8Ure5yuJanuary 9, 2023

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For apparent causes, we’re hesitant to take the above renders as gospel, however a darkened teaser picture of the Magic 5 Professional on Honor’s personal web site does counsel that @rodent950’s leaked design photographs are correct – no less than by way of the cellphone’s rear digital camera array.  

Below the hood, a current Weibo put up (opens in new tab) from a leaker referred to as – look forward to it – The Manufacturing unit Supervisor is Classmate Guan suggests the Magic 5 Professional will arrive packing Qualcomm’s highly effective Snapdragon Eight Gen 2 chipset and a 6.8-inch LTPO AMOLED show panel. 

The latter will supposedly boast 2160Hz high-frequency dimming, HDR10+, under-display fingerprint sensors and a most brightness of 1,100nits – which might be mighty spectacular from a model whose first premium smartphone got here solely a yr in the past.

The identical Weibo put up additionally makes point out of three configurations for the Honor Magic 5 Professional – 8GB RAM / 256GB storage, 12GB RAM / 256GB, and 12GB / 512GB – in addition to a 4,800mAh battery. Once more, we’d advise taking these supposedly leaked specs with a pinch of salt, however it might be nice to see the Magic 5 Professional higher – or no less than match – its predecessor in these efficiency departments.

As for the cellphone’s rear digital camera arrange, the newest intelligence suggests the Magic 5 Professional will function three highly effective Sony snappers, although we don’t have rather more to go on past that at this level. We all know the system will likely be getting some type of AI-powered capturing mode – Honor teased as a lot within the aforementioned tweet (opens in new tab) – however the jury continues to be out on simply how highly effective the Magic 5 Professional’s cameras will likely be. 

The #HONORMagic5 Professional is blowing our minds with its AI function – take a look at the way it routinely captures a second of breaking a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™! Uncover what else it might do to #UnleashThePowerofMagic at #MWC23! @GWR #GuinnessWorldRecords pic.twitter.com/d0fy7FVZWNFebruary 13, 2023

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For context, the Magic Professional Four sports activities 50MP broad and ultra-wide sensors, a 64MP telephoto digital camera and a Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor. On the entrance are two selfie sensors – a 12MP ultra-wide digital camera with a 100-degree subject of view, and a 3D depth sensor. We’d anticipate its successor to match or enhance upon every of those snappers. 

In a press launch despatched to TechRadar, Honor stated the Honor Magic 5 Professional “will deliver some nice improvements for picture capturing [to the table],” so we’re excited to see what these new digital camera options grow to be on February 27.