Honor, one of China’s mobile technology giants, is preparing for the arrival of the next generation of its flagship: Honor the Magic7 series It will arrive this month and, with it, the next generation of its Android-based operating system will debut.
It is about MagicOS 9.0the new version of the personalization layer that Honor uses on its mobile devices, this time based on the new Android 15. And its big novelty this year is linked to artificial intelligence, since Honor promises its own version of Apple Intelligence or Gemini, with a sort of virtual assistant that will be present on your devices.
The new Honor Magic7 and MagicOS 9.0 arrive in the last days of October
The company announced through a publication on Weibo, the popular Chinese social network, that the next October 23 will be the day we know MagicOS 9.0the new version of its mobile interface that will first reach the company’s new generation of smartphones, but it is expected that other mobile phones will also receive this update, for example the Honor Magic6 Pro and the Honor Magic6 Lite which debuted in 2023 and They arrived in Europe at the beginning of this year.
Honor, in its announcement, mentions that its new system will be full of artificial intelligence, and the company has already advanced part of the experience during events such as IFA 2024, an occasion in which some participants were able to see a live demonstration of Honor’s intelligent assistant, as revealed in a video from Sparrows News. Honor’s AI can perform actions on the mobile phone after receiving voice commandssimilar to what other AI-based systems do. This is something they’ve been working on since the beginning of this year, and with the next version of MagicOS they promise we’ll see how their AI evolves.
As for the new Magic7 series, it should contain one of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 processors, the next generation of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 that we have seen in all mobile phones. flagship this year in the Android ecosystem. However, there are also rumors indicating that the new Honor could use a MediaTek Dimensity 9400 chip. As for its screen, It will have an oval shaped hole to include the sensors and the front camera, as we have already seen in the MagicOS 9.0 demo video.
On August 23, Honor will officially unveil MagicOS 9.0, while a week later, October 30 will be the date when we will know in detail the new family of Honor Magic7 mobile phones and its specifications. However, these are the launch dates for China, in Europe and in the rest of the world we will have to wait a little longer for the arrival of these smartphones and the MagicOS update.
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