As the second-generation top flagship mobile phone product after Honor’s independence, the Honor Magic 4 Ultimate Edition not only shoulders the heavy responsibility of Honor mobile phones to hit the high-end market. It is also an answer sheet submitted by Honor to users who have long supported Honor mobile phones.

After a comprehensive review, we believe that the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is a mobile phone product that returns to the pinnacle of Android flagship phones. Its imaging capabilities can be said to have set a new benchmark for the smartphone industry to be surpassed. Let’s analyze why the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition has reached the pinnacle of Android flagship phones in 2022.

01/ Super four-curved design, comfortable to hold

The Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition as a whole continues the shape design ideas of the previous generation model, and is quite recognizable among many flagship mobile phones today. The screen on the front of the fuselage adopts a 6.81″ OLED screen and adopts the industry-leading glass bending process to achieve a super four-curved design. The glass material is tough super-curved nano-ceramic glass, and a front camera is designed in the upper left corner of the screen.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition super four-surface design

The back of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition adopts nano-microcrystalline ceramic technology, and the unique design can not only integrate the rear camera module with the body design. At the same time, it can also play a role in fitting the hand shape and enhancing the grip feeling. Thanks to the combination of the super-curved screen design and the curved ceramic back cover, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition feels very comfortable to hold. The 9.0mm body thickness and 242g body weight will not feel tired when holding it for a long time.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition nano microcrystalline ceramic process

As a top flagship mobile phone, the protection performance of Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition has also reached the top level of current smartphones. The ultra-curved nano-glass-ceramic screen of Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition has improved the anti-drop performance by 5 times and supports IP68 waterproof and dustproof rating. At the same time, in terms of biometrics, Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition provides two functions: front 3D face recognition and screen fingerprint recognition. Users can choose according to their own preferences.

02/ LTPO+ high frequency PWM dimming, fantastic flagship screen

Previously, many flagship smartphones had the problem that the 120Hz LTPO adaptive high refresh rate screen could not coexist with high-frequency PWM dimming, which made many users have to give up part of the experience when choosing a new mobile phone. The Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition brings users a fantastic flagship screen experience without any regrets.

120Hz LTPO adaptive high refresh screen

The Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is equipped with an OLED screen that supports both 120Hz LTPO adaptive high refresh rate function and 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, thus realizing the three experiences of reducing power consumption, smooth look and feel, and eye protection. The screen resolution of Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is 1312*2848 and supports 1.07 billion color display.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition screen

While having excellent screen quality, Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition also has a built-in independent display chip, which can realize full-time HDR, AI HDR enhancement, MEMC and other technologies. During the actual experience, you can clearly feel that the screen of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is very smooth, and the color display effect is also amazing.

03/ Establish a new flagship benchmark, super flagship imaging system

What everyone is most concerned about about the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is its ultra-flagship-level rear imaging system. The rear camera system configuration of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is quite luxurious. The specific configuration is as follows:

• Wide-angle main camera: 50MP wide-angle camera (f/1.6 aperture, OIS image stabilization)
• Enhanced lens: 50MP spectrally enhanced camera (f/2.0 aperture)
• Ultra-wide-angle lens: 64MP ultra-wide-angle camera (f/2.2 aperture)
• Telephoto lens: 64MP periscope telephoto camera (f/3.5 aperture, OIS image stabilization)
• Sensing module: laser focusing system + Flicker sensor

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition rear camera module

From the perspective of imaging hardware configuration, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition not only reaches the ceiling level of the current Android flagship mobile phone, but also makes many innovations. For example, while continuing to use the multi-main camera fusion computational photography capabilities, Honor is also continuously improving the optical quality of the lens itself. The main camera of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition uses an ultra-high-spec 8P lens, and the ultra-wide-angle lens also uses a dual free-form lens for the first time. The addition of a CV spectral lens and a dTOF lens also plays a role in assisting imaging.

In the actual shooting experience, we found that the image quality of the main camera of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is quite amazing. It not only achieves the basic clear picture, sharp details, and accurate color, but also the resolution of the picture is also very good, and the blessing of the HDR function also achieves better picture restoration.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition main camera proofs

The ultra-wide-angle lens of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition also has good imaging results. The edge distortion control of the picture is quite good, enough to meet the needs of most users for daily shooting.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition ultra-wide-angle lens proofs

What is satisfying is the telephoto lens of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition. The lens has excellent imaging results whether at 3.5x (optical zoom) or 7x (hybrid zoom using computational photography technology). Satisfactory image quality can be presented even when shooting distant objects.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition 3.5x telephoto proofs

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition 7x telephoto proofs

With the support of computational photography capabilities, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition also performs extremely well in night scenes and low-light environments. Through the proofs, we can see that the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition can achieve clear and detailed imaging even in low-light environments, and there is no glare problem visible to the naked eye.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition main camera dark light proofs

For smartphones, the image capability of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition can be regarded as a new benchmark for Android flagship phones in 2022, and only a few flagship phones have the same level of image capability.

04/ Long-lasting release of strong performance, equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1

In terms of performance, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition adopts the standard configuration of Android flagship phones in 2022: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1+12GB LPDDR5 RAM+512GB UFS3.1 ROM. At the same time, it is equipped with superconducting hexagonal graphene + ultra-thin VC liquid-cooled three-dimensional heat dissipation system, which can achieve high-performance lasting release.

In the performance benchmark test, the AnTuTu test score of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition in the high-performance mode is 947,000 points, which is a normal level among mobile phones with the same chip. In the Wild Life test of 3DMark, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition scored 10049 points, reaching the leading level among mobile phones with the same chip. It is worth mentioning that the average frame rate of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition in the Wild Life test is 60 frames, which means that the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition has no obvious frame drop problems in the test. This shows that the continuous performance release ability of Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is very good.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition benchmark performance test results

In the test of the well-known mobile phone performance evaluation mobile game “Genshin Impact”, the picture quality option is set to very high picture quality + 60 frames. In the high-performance mode, the measured average frame rate of the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition for 15 minutes is 57.9 frames, and the frame rate curve fluctuates less. The overall performance is excellent in the same level of mobile phones. From the performance test, it can be found that the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition not only achieves a strong performance release, but also has a long-lasting high-performance release capability.

Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition game frame rate test results

05/ No waiting for charging, 100W super fast charge

In terms of battery life, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition uses a combination of 4600mAh battery + 100W wired super fast charge + 50W wireless super fast charge. The charging interface is a Type-C interface, which supports USB 3.1 Gen1 specification data transmission. Although this charging specification is no longer fresh, it fully reaches the top level of flagship mobile phones in 2022.

Using a 100W super fast charger in the actual test, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition can charge its 4600mAh battery from 1% to 99% in 30 minutes, and is fully charged in 31 minutes. This fast charging speed exceeds that of most flagship mobile phones and is in an industry-leading position.

30 minutes charging test results

It is worth mentioning that the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition comes standard with a 100W wired charging set + Type-C digital headphones + PU protective case. It can bring users an out-of-the-box experience, effectively avoiding the embarrassing experience brought by other flagship phones at the same price that do not come standard with chargers and headphones.

06/ Summary

In today’s fierce competition in the mobile phone industry, how to create a distinctive flagship mobile phone can be said to be a big problem. The Honor Magic 4 Ultimate Edition is Honor’s answer to this question. The Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition not only achieves a benchmark-level image experience, but also its performance level is also excellent in the same level of mobile phones. For users who want to buy a high-end Android flagship phone, the Honor Magic4 Ultimate Edition is a pretty good choice.

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