Honor 60 introduced in China with vlogging-focused gesture controls

Honor, the previous Huawei sub-brand that cut up from the Chinese tech big final yr, has introduced its newest handsets for the Chinese market. The Honor 60 and Honor 60 Pro are two midrange handsets powered by Qualcomm’s current Snapdragon 778G Plus processor, however in any other case, they’re similar to the Honor 50 sequence telephones launched earlier this yr, proper all the way down to having comparable dual-ring digicam bumps on the rear of every telephone.

A notable new function for each new telephones is assist for hand gesture controls, which allow you to carry out actions like making the “Okay” gesture or elevating your hand to carry out digicam controls like switching between its back and front cameras, or enabling picture-in-picture mode. The telephone can acknowledge 5 hand gestures in whole, and Honor says options like these make vlogging “easier than ever.”

Honor is much from the primary smartphone firm to have added hand gestures like these, with everybody from Google to Samsung and LG having experimented with comparable options. These controls tended to be laggy and inexact up to now, so Honor’s tech has rather a lot to show.

Both telephones have triple rear digicam setups for if you get filming. On the 60 Pro, there’s a 108-megapixel primary digicam, a 50-megapixel mixed ultrawide and macro digicam, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. The large enchancment right here is with the ultrawide, which was solely 8 megapixels on the 50 Pro. The 60 Pro additionally has a excessive decision 50-megapixel selfie digicam. Meanwhile, the common Honor 60 has a decrease decision 32-megapixel front-facing digicam, triple rear cameras with a decrease decision 8-megapixel ultrawide, and no point out of macro images capabilities.

Both telephones have 120Hz curved OLED shows, although the 60 Pro’s is barely greater (at 6.78 inches) and curves round all 4 sides of the system, according to GSMArena, whereas the Honor 60 has a 6.67-inch show that curves round its left and proper sides. Internally, each telephones have 4,800mAh batteries, a small enhance from the 4,000 and 4,300mAh batteries discovered within the 50 Pro and 50. Both cost at a most of 66W, which is in step with the Honor 50, however a slight downgrade from the Honor 50 Pro’s 100W quick charging.

Honor has but to substantiate a worldwide launch for the telephones, nevertheless it’s price noting that if both telephone have been to launch exterior of China, they’d be capable to come preinstalled with Google’s apps and companies, similar to the Honor 50. Huawei, in the meantime, remains to be topic to US sanctions that stop it from delivery telephones with Google’s proprietary software program.

The Honor 60 sequence has solely been introduced for the Chinese market up to now, with no confirmed plans for a worldwide launch. But there was solely a matter of months between the launch of the Honor 50 in China and its launch in the remainder of the world, so we shouldn’t have too lengthy to attend if there’s a worldwide launch coming. In China, each telephones will likely be out there on December tenth. The Honor 60 will begin at ¥2,699 (round $424), whereas GSMArena notes the Honor 60 Pro begins at ¥3,700 (round $581).