VivaTech 2024 | Honor 200 series will be released in June and gets AI portrait optimization, which was trained using photos from the renowned Harcourt Studio

As part of the major IT trade fair VivaTech 2024, where the Notebookcheck team is also present, hardware manufacturer Honor not only surprised visitors with a new four-layer AI model, but also announced the official global launch of the Honor 200 and Honor 200 Pro smartphones: The new devices will be released on 12 June, and Honor is also hosting a launch event for the Honor 200 series in Paris. In China, the smartphones will be launched on 27 May.

While the Chinese hardware manufacturer has yet to comment on the official specifications of the Honor 200 and Honor 200 Pro, the press release for the Honor 200 smartphones highlights a new AI feature for portrait photography: "The HONOR 200 series will revolutionise portrait photography by incorporating the expertise of France's Harcourt Studio, renowned for its timeless celebrity portraits, into every step of the process, using AI technology to reproduce the studio's legendary light and shadow effects," reads HONOR's press release.

Honor's new feature uses an unspecified "vast" dataset of portrait photos from Harcourt Studios, which is best known for its iconically lit black-and-white images of countless celebrities, created in nine production steps. Thanks to Honor's new AI feature, the aim is to produce "flawless studio-quality photos" with every portrait shot.

The Honor 200 series will be shipped with Honor's MagicOS 8.0 based on Android 14 on 12 June. However, the Honor 90 and Honor Magic V2, which are already on the market, will also receive an update to MagicOS 8.0, the manufacturer announced at VivaTech 2024.