How is Honor doing after leaving Huawei protectorate? It seems that the first answer to this question will be possible within the launch of the Honor V40 line, which will be released next week. But there are already alarm bells. The company postponed the release of new products several times and for the last time, the announcement from January 18 was postponed to January 22.
The remaining days before the premiere are used by insiders to find out more about the new products. And one of the last and curious details is the price of the Honor V40. Someone has leaked an image of a shipping invoice from a warehouse of a batch of smartphones to the network, which contains a price tag for a Honor V40 variant of $617.
According to reports, the Honor V40 is based on the eight-core Dimensity 1000+ chip, which is currently the most powerful processor in the MediaTek lineup. They promise a 6.72-inch OLED display with a 120 Hz refresh rate and 300 Hz response rate.
There should be five cameras in total: two on the front and three on the back, where the main sensor is 50-megapixel. Honor V40 can be charged by wire at 66 W, and wirelessly at 50 W.
Honor V40 5G appears in a live video while its announcement has been postponed
A new official teaser dedicated to the flagship Honor V40 5Ghas appeared on the Web. It captures the smartphone from different angles, which once again makes it possible to evaluate its design. But for us, the date indicated above is much more important. ََAs you can see, the new product will be officially presented on January 22nd. Although it was previously assumed that the debut will take place on January 18.
The reason for the postponement is not named, but at least it is known that sales will start two hours after the announcement. A short video showing the V40 live also appeared on the Web. Moreover, the brightest model with a pink color was chosen for the show.
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Something is already known about the characteristics of the Honor V40 5G. For example, the main camera uses sensors with a resolution of 50, 8, 2 and 2 megapixels. It will run the Dimensity 1000+ SoC. 66W wired charging and 55W wireless charging are supported.
Honor V40 has a stunning screen that displays 1 billion colors
Honor, a former Huawei sub-brand that recently went independent, has confirmed that it will host an event to unveil the flagship Honor V40 smartphone series on January 18 in China. Later, the company has posted the first teaser for the Honor V40 on social media. The teaser says that the Honor V40 is equipped with an ultra-sensitive screen that can display a billion colors.
The smartphone has a curved edge screen and a cutout in the upper left corner to accommodate two camera sensors. It is expected to have a 6.72-inch OLED panel and support 120Hz refresh rate. A fingerprint scanner is built under the surface of the screen.
It will run the MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ SoC with 5G support. The smartphone will receive 8 GB of LPDDR4x RAM, as well as 128 GB or 256 GB of UFS 2.1 flash memory. The previous image confirmed that the main camera sensor has a resolution of 50MP.
The V40 is to support 66W wired fast charging and 45W wireless charging. The device will run Android 11 operating system with its own Magic UI 4.0 user interface.