Honor 300 Ultra debuts with 'SLR-level' camera setup and premium design
After days of teasers, the Honor 300 series is now official in China. As the successor to the 200 lineup, the phones within the new series aim to deliver top-notch camera performance without being too pricey. It's also the company's first lineup to have a smartphone with the "Ultra" moniker.
For reference, Honor's previous top-end phones within their respective series launched with the "Ultimate" tag. Nonetheless, the company says that among the three newly announced phones, the Honor 300 Ultra has the "strongest telephoto portrait camera."
It's a 50 MP periscope telephoto sensor that offers 3.8x optical zoom and 100x digital zoom. This periscope camera has an f/3.0 aperture and OIS. It's paired with a 50 MP f/1.95 primary sensor with OIS and a 12 MP ultra-wide angle macro camera with f/2.2 aperture and autofocus. On the front, there's a 50 MP selfie shooter that can offer "SLR-level portrait" photos.
Beyond the cameras, the smartphone has capable hardware under the hood. The Honor 300 Ultra is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and this last-gen Qualcomm flagship SoC is paired with up to 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. A 5,300 mAh battery powers the internals, and it has 100W wired fast charging and 80W wireless charging support (150W Anker GanPrime charger curr. $59.99 on Amazon).
Screen-wise, the Honor 300 Ultra comes with a 6.78-inch FHD+ display with a 120 Hz refresh rate, 4,000 nits peak brightness rating, and wide DCI-P3 color coverage. There's an ultrasonic fingerprint reader under the screen, but unlike the Magic 7 Pro, this phone doesn't have a 3D TOF sensor on the front. So, there's no support for 3D face unlock.
Other notable features of the Honor 300 Ultra include a large-sized VC cooling solution for stable performance under load, GPU Turbo X for enhanced gaming, IP65 rating, WiFi 7, and 7-layer plain leather embossed design. The phone starts at CNY 4,199 in China (around $577) and is expected to make a global debut in early 2025.
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Honor (machine translated from Chinese)
