Honor 50 Pro wows with 100W charging — oh, and Google apps are back

Award 50 Pro wows with 100W charging — oh, and Google apps are back

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The Honor fifty series made its debut in China today (June xvi), and while the telephone maker was eager to talk about the many cameras that come on the Award 50 and Honor fifty Pro, it'due south the software on board the new phones that'due south going to control the most attention.

Both the Laurels fifty and Honor 50 Pro include Google apps, which had been missing from recent handsets released past the Chinese telephone maker. The absence of Google apps was keenly felt, so their return makes the Honour 50 phones more attractive options for Android users.

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Honor confirmed the return of Google apps in a statement to Tom'southward Guide. Laurels'due south phones "volition undergo Google's Play Protect certified security review and compatibility testing procedure to ensure they are gear up to run apps from Google and the Google Play Shop," a spokesperson said. "Honour devices will therefore accept the option to have Google Mobile Services preinstalled on compatible devices, in accordance with Google's licensing and governance models."

Honour lost the ability to use Google apps on its phones considering it had been a subsidiary of Huawei, the Chinese phone maker that ran afoul of the U.S. government. Huawei continues to discover itself on a government blacklist that prevents U.S. companies from doing business the Chinese firm. That includes Google, which means Huawei couldn't use Google apps on its phones; Huawei has fifty-fifty gone then far as to launch its own mobile OS.

Huawei spun off Honor into a standalone concern last November, largely as a result of U.South. sanctions. Now that it's on its own, Honor can once again practise business with Google, and the software on the Accolade fifty reflects that.

Honor phones used to hit the U.S. — I retrieve reviewing the Award eight 5 years agone — though the devices have bypassed this state in recent years. Huawei's troubles with the U.South. government were only office of the reason, as it's hard for telephone makers to break into the U.South. without start lining up a carrier partner. So we're unlikely to see either the Honour 50 or Laurels fifty Pro buck that trend.

The Honor fifty series is coming to the U.Yard. after this yr, though, after its initial release in China. The phone will also ship to French republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia and Kingdom of saudi arabia, though there's no timeframe as to when. The Award 50 costs ii,699 yuan (almost $421 if you catechumen that to U.S. dollars) while the Honour 50 Pro costs 3,699 yuan (around $578).

Honor fifty serial specs

Anyone who buys the Honor l will get a lot of cameras for their money. The rear camera array on both phones features 4 lenses — a 108MP chief shooter augmented past an 8MP broad angle lens and dedicated macro and depth cameras. It'due south the front of the telephone that Accolade is touting, though, as in that location are a pair of lenses, a 32MP selfie cam and 12MP video cam, being targeted at video bloggers.

The front cameras include support for a super night mode also smart switching features powered by bogus intelligence. Honor says you'll be able to record simultaneously from front end and real cameras using the six multi-lens shooting modes.

The batteries on the Honour fifty series are also noteworthy, not simply for their size — 4,300 mAh on the Accolade 50, 4,000 mAh on the l Pro — only for how quickly they charge. While the Accolade 50 supports 66W fast-charging, the Laurels l Pro trumps that with 100W speeds. Honor claims that gets a tuckered Honor 50 Pro back to 90% of its bombardment capacity afterward 20 minutes of charging. The Honour 50 tin attain lxx% in that same time.

You'll get a 6.57-inch curved display with the Laurels fifty and a half-dozen.72-inch screen on the Honour 50 Pro. Both phones back up a 120Hz refresh rate. The Accolade 50 Pro is capable of dynamically adjusting that rate; it also boasts 300Hz bear on sampling charge per unit for a more responsive screen.

Powering all this is a Snapdragon 778G system-on-bit. That means the Award 50 series comes with 5G connectivity.

All told, it's a pretty impressive pair of midrange phones fabricated fifty-fifty more appealing with the render of Google apps. Now information technology just remains for Accolade to augment out the markets where its phones will go on sale.

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Philip Michaels is a senior editor at Tom's Guide. He has stiff opinions nigh Apple, the Oakland Athletics and old movies. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.