And today is the perfect day, HONOR announces three of its long-awaited Smartphones, the HONOR 30 lineup -HONOR 30, HONOR 30 PRO and HONOR 30 PRO Plus with OLED display, an in-display fingerprint sensor, 5G, 4000mAh battery and many more.
The HONOR 30 series is definitely a good lineup to start with, where the HONOR 30 arrives with the new Kirin 985 5G chipset and the HONOR 30 PRO and 30 PRO Plus stays as the bigger variants.
When it comes to the differences between the three phones, it is quite much but the similarities are quite a few, especially the 32-megapixels front camera (another 8MP on PROs), battery, a biometric sensor, and others.
HONOR 30
HONOR 30 arrives with a tall 6.53-inch OLED display with FHD+ resolution, 20:9 aspect ratio, an under-display fingerprint scanner and a single punch-hole cutout in the top left corner that hosts the single 32-megapixels selfie camera.
You can purchase the HONOR 30 6GB/128GB model for CNY 2,999 ($425), where the 8GB/128GB variant is priced at CNY 3,199 ($450) and then CNY 3,499 ($495) for the 8GB/256GB variants.
The Honor 30 will be available in black, purple, silver and green colors option, a 4000mAh battery with 40W fast wired charging and runs on Magic UI 3.1.0 based on Android 10.
Unlike the others, the HONOR 30 comes with a QUAD-rear camera setup, which consists of the main 40MP camera with Sony IMX600 sensor f/1.8 aperture, OIS, 8MP ultra-wide camera with f/2.4 aperture, 8MP periscope telephoto camera with f/3.4 aperture, OIS, 5x optical zoom, 10x Hybrid Zoom, 50x Digital Zoom, 2MP macro sensor with f/2.4 aperture.
It is completely powered by the new Kirin 985 5G 7nm node with Mali-G77 GPU. It is available in 6GB / 8GB RAM with 128GB RAM, 8GB RAM with 256GB storage, but you can expand the memory up to 256GB with NM card.
Fortunately, you can pre-order the phone right away, but the HONOR mentioned that the official sales will kick-off from April 21.
HONOR 30 PRO
The HONOR 30 PRO arrives with a tall 6.57-inch FHD+ OLED waterfall 20:9 aspect ratio display and a punch-hole cutout for the dual front-facing cameras – primary 32-megapixels and 8-megapixels ultrawide sensor.
It comes with a frosted glass back panel, which consists of a 40-megapixel rear camera with Sony IMX600 sensor f/1.8 aperture and RYYB color filter, 16-megapixels ultra-wide camera with f/2.2 aperture, and 8-megapixels periscope telephoto camera with f/3.4 aperture.
The Honor 30 Pro is available in purple, black, silver and green colors. Sports an in-display fingerprint sensor, 4,000mAh battery, Kirin 990 5G chipset, 8GB or 12GB RAM and 128/256GB storage and runs on Magic UI 3.1.0 based on Android 10.
Thankfully, you can easily pre-order the phone right now. Where the 8GB/128GB is priced at CNY 3,999 ($565) and the 8GB/256GB variant goes for CNY 4,399 ($620). While the official sales are scheduled to begin on April 21.
HONOR 30 PRO Plus
Here we have the practical and most premium of the trio, it is the HONOR 30 PRO Plus with 6.57-inch (2340 × 1080 pixels) FHD+ OLED waterfall display, with 180Hz touch sampling rate and 90Hz refresh rate, which is more like the OnePlus 8.
It packs a dual selfie snapper, the main 32MP with f/2.0 aperture, 8MP ultra-wide sensor with f/2.2 aperture, in-display fingerprint sensor, and it is IP54 Water, and dust resistant rated.
The HONOR 30 PRO Plus packs a 50-megapixels camera with Sony IMX700 RYYB of 1.22μm sensor with f/1.9 aperture, 16MP with a 17mm equivalent lens, an ultra-wide camera with f/2.2 aperture, 2.5cm macro, 8MP periscope camera with f/3.4 aperture, with 5x optical zoom and up to 50x hybrid zoom.
The HONOR 30 PRO is available in Midnight Black, Green and Titanium Silver color options. Well, HONOR did a whole new different design for the most top-notch in the new lineup.
Powered by Kirin 990 5G processor with ARM Mali-G76MP16 GPU, available in 8GB RAM with 256GB storage / 8GB RAM with 256GB storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with NM card.
It runs on Android 10 with MagicUI 3.1 out of the box. The 8GB/256GB costs CNY4,999 ($707), and the 12GB/256GB goes for CNY5,499 ($778). You can pre-order the phone right away and the official sale will commence from April 21.
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This is how the HONOR 30, HONOR 30 PRO and HONOR 30 PRO Plus stack up against each other. You can pre-order any of the phones right now, and they will start hitting the shelves of stores from the 21st of April.