Honor Pad V8 Pro launches alongside new 80 GT smartphone in China

Honor seems to back the idea of the 'performance tablet' trend with the latest addition to its Pad line-up. It upgrades to a 144Hz refresh rate for its 12.1-inch 10-bit 2.5K+ LCD panel, kept on with a large 10,050mAh battery.

The Pad V8 Pro has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of fixed storage as standard; then again, it has an upper-mid-range Dimensity 8100 platform from MediaTek and runs MagicOS 7.0 based on Android 12 out of the box.

Accordingly, it starts at 2,599 yuan (~US$373) in Clear Sky Blue, Star Gray or Burning Orange colorways (the latter of which is vegan leather as opposed to glass) with its matching Magic Pencil 3 and keyboard folio as optional extras.

Meanwhile, the Honor 80 series which may gotten a foldable variant in 2022 as rumored, but does now have its own GT edition. It combines the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 SoC of its top-end Pro sibling with a smaller 6.67-inch FHD+ OLED display.

A standard punch-hole, as opposed to the Dynamic Island-esque pill cut-out that marks other 80-series variants, has been chosen for this new addition.

The 80 GT also has a Sony IMX800 main rear camera as opposed to the new 160MP sensor of the 80 Pro, although it is found in an updated, domino-like hump along with 8+2MP back-up shooters.

The new smartphone variant is also still on MagicOS 7.0; however, as this is a special edition, it has 12 or 16GB of RAM to go with its 256GB of internal storage. Those SKUs go for 3,299 to 3,599 yuan (~US$474-517) from now on Honor's online store in China, with no mention of international availability as yet. 

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