Leakster: Honor is creating its personal 1-inch sensor for the Magic8 RSR Porsche Design

Honor’s upcoming flagship Magic8 collection will come with fashions starting from 6.3” to six.8”, writes leakster Good Pikachu on Weibo (Honor will reportedly get into mini telephones quickly). What’s attention-grabbing is that the highest of the road Honor Magic8 RSR Porsche Design will function a 1” sensor that used to be advanced in-house, in step with the leakster.

The RSR telephone will put that sensor in the back of a lens with a variable aperture. This lens will have the ability to open vast to assemble extra gentle at nighttime whilst nonetheless with the ability to shut down for day pictures.

As for the sensor itself, it’s no longer transparent what would possibly have motivated Honor to expand one in-house – what does it take into account that it may well’t get from Sony, Samsung or OmniVision?

At one level there have been rumors that Huawei would expand its personal sensor for the Pura 70 fashions, however the Extremely ended up with a Sony sensor (IMX989, 1”, 50MP), whilst the Professional and Professional+ used OmniVision (OV50H, 1/1.3” 50MP). Let’s see if Honor has higher success than its former guardian corporate.

Anyway, the customized 1” sensor will handiest be used within the expensive Magic8 RSR, but when it proves just right sufficient (and if the corporate can get prices down over the years), it may additionally be utilized by long run Honor flagships.

Whilst we look ahead to extra main points, you’ll take a look at our head-to-head article that compares the Honor Magic7 RSR with the Magic7 Professional. They’ve very an identical digital camera {hardware}, despite the fact that the RSR makes use of upgraded parts. Take a look at the object to look how a lot of a distinction that made.

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