Honor V40 5G – First flagship device after the breakup from Wawi

Honor V40 5G (Photo: Honor)

Honor’s first device, now an independent company separate from Wawi after being sold to a group of traders in China, was officially unveiled today (Friday 22.1), bringing with it a flagship spec that includes an impressive photo array and a battery with extremely fast charging, starting at a price of approx. $ 555.

You will not find the Honor V40 5G (or Honor View 40) outside of China at this time, and the company does not even provide a reference to the most significant issue of all – Android. As is well known, American companies have been blocked from working with Wawi since it entered the Entity List as a “risk to the internal security of US residents” back in May 2019.

Honor’s separation from the company came with the expectation that we will return to see Google’s operating system adorning the devices, but at this point, and due to the launch of the new model only in China, all the company reveals is the use of the custom UI 4.0, based on Android 10. About the availability of Google services, and especially the Google Play app store, is not available at this time.

Although the oil of Google and Android does not receive attention in the announcement event and in the press release of the company, Honor takes care to mention the oil of many other companies with which it “promised the partnership,” she said. Among those companies are the names of Sony, Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Media-Tech, Micron, Samsung, AMD and SK hynix, most of which companies with which Honor could not conduct proper business when it was under the roof of Wawi.

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Honor V40 5G (Photo: Honor)

Meet the Honor V40 5G

The Honor V40 comes with a 6.72-inch OLED screen on the front, which supports Full HD + resolution at a layout of 1236 × 2676 pixels and offers a maximum refresh rate of 120 Hz and a touch sampling rate on display at up to 300 Hz. The screen supports HDR10 and the DCI-P3 color range and also incorporates a touch-enabled fingerprint reader, with a pair of cameras in the upper left corner of the screen, one using a 16-megapixel sensor and the other designed for depth sampling for portrait photography with the bokeh effect ).

Beyond the back of the Honor V40 is a triangular photo array, with a 50-megapixel main sensor that captures images with 2 micrometer pixels in a union of 4 pixels close to one (Pixel Bininig) via an f / 1.9 aperture key, when it uses laser focus . Along with the main sensor, you can also find an 8-megapixel sensor for taking pictures at a wide angle and a 2-megapixel sensor for macro photography, while the video side supports filming up to 4K HDR resolution.

Under the lid you can find the Media-Tech + Dimensity 1000 chipset, which combines a 5G modem, along with LPDDR4x RAM (8GB), a UFS 2.1 storage component with 128 or 256GB volumes and a 4,000mAh battery Supports fast charging at 66 watts that will allow the device to be fully charged in about 35 minutes via a USB-C connection, while there is also support for fast wireless charging at 50 watts. Alongside this, the company adds support for NFC, Bluetooth 5.0 and WiFi 6 and Dual SIM on 5G networks.

Prices and launch date

The company is launching the Honor V40 5G in China in gold-pink, black and silver right now, and at a price of 3,599 yuan (about $ 555) for the 8GB RAM model and 128GB of storage, and at a price of 3,999 yuan (about $ 620) For the 256GB model.