Eyes as the remote: Honor's Magic6 series Phone shatters boundaries, leaving Foldables behind
Delhi : Honor has hinted at the Magic6 series, which will be flagship Android smartphones equipped with all the newest features that Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 platform can provide. They feature the newest and most potent method of connecting with computers made by the company itself, as well as a voice assistant driven by on-device AI. First-generation Magic Capsule screens, which are billed as an even smarter version of Dynamic Island for iPhones, will also be included on the new handsets.
Honor describes the technique as "eye-tracking-based multimodal interaction," and based on what we saw in the presentation, it appears to be rather promising. But it's still unclear how useful this would be in practice and what types of interactions app developers might create—especially for a product this specialized.
Honor has announced that the next Magic5 smartphone would, in fact, be powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC in time for Snapdragon Summit 2023. The OEM claims that because of Qualcomm's most recent developments in on-device AI and wireless device integration, it will include considerably more than the typical flagship CPU upgrade.
Honor intends to utilize the former to equip the Magic6 with its most potent internal voice assistant to date. With the name YOYO, it is designed to function more like a chatbot on a smartphone and will only operate on the device itself.
Its "7-billion-parameter" LLM, created in collaboration with Qualcomm, is said to generate "personalized" replies while consuming the least amount of battery life possible, hence enabling its organic "user-centric" experience.
It has also been pointed that the Magic6 (which at launch could be joined by a Magic6 Pro) can create an ecosystem around the MagicRing with other Honor devices, such laptops. All of the aforementioned devices should be able to "pool" their I/O and screen contents in order to enable Qualcomm Snapdragon Seamless capabilities like connected input and camera.
Ultimately, the Magic6 series may also evolve into the first-generation Magic Capsule devices, which have a new "multimodal interaction" region at the top of the display that can be configured to awaken automatically in response to a new selfie camera pill's eye-tracking feature.
