Honor’s mid-range 400 series pairs 200 megapixel cameras with usual AI tools
It’s been a while since a company threw out a really stupid megapixel for a new phone. After all, the double-digit pixels found on most flagship phones are just used to reduce the size of the pixel bin without compromising quality. Then, when I tell you about Honor’s New Midrange 400 series, gloves with a 200 megapixel sensor and with AI using all the data, it’s nice. 200 megapixels, in this economy? Obviously that’s the case.
The 400 series is the latest in Honors Awards, which contains the “N” series of digital mid-range phones. Naturally, while there are 400 low-end versions available to purchase, the company’s focus here (as always) is on the 400 Pro 5G and the regular 400 5G. Both models get a 200-megapixel main camera and tied to a Samsung-made 1/1.4-inch sensor with optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization. Both also come with a 12-megapixel macro/wide camera, and a 50-megapixel front-facing machine. However, the Pro also gets an additional 50-megapixel telephoto, which the company claims will produce some impressive digital zoom.
Of course, these phones don’t know much about the original numbers and are more about what you can do when running images through AI. Honor says the phone will capture and enhance portraits, erase passers-by, create videos from still images, and even remove reflective glare when taking photos in glass panes. Also, if you feel the original is cropped too tightly when shooting, the generation expansion on the device will expand the edges of the image. Honor says the phone will use AI to create film models to annoy all Fuji fanatics. Honors is unclear yet to be clear about these AI innovations that will be part of the phone and how much additional subscriptions are required.
As for the rest of the phone, the 400 Pro’s spec list isn’t slackening: it has a Snapdragon 8, Gen 3 processor, 16GB of RAM and a 5,300mAh silicon-carbon battery. In the front, you will stare into a 6.7-inch 2,800 x 1,280, 120Hz AMOLED display with a peak brightness of 5,000 columns. If you choose the regular 400, you get Snapdragon 7, Gen 3, 8GB RAM and 6.55-inch, 120Hz, with similarly powerful peak brightness. Both phones will get the AI thread optimizations from Honor often presenting hoo for better continuous performance under load, such as when you play on the go. The company has tweaked the graphics engine to better handle people’s massive photo gallery without stuttering.
The Honor 400 series is available for purchase in Europe and the UK starting today, and the Pro 5G offers you a price of €800/£700. If you want 256GB of storage, the regular 400 5G can be seized for €500/£400, and if you need 512GB, you can be seized for €5550/£450. Naturally, if you are looking for a cheap alternative, you can buy the “Lite” version for 300 euros, but the company doesn’t share any specifications for that particular phone. As usual, there is no news about whether this phone will come to the United States unless you import it yourself.
Honors Hunger points out that the company is committed to providing these phones with six years of Android support. This means buyers should expect at least a lot of OS and security updates, and Android 16 will be available to their phones by the end of the year.
