Forget Foldables, Honor’s New Flagship Phone Lets You Control It With Your Eyes – News18

It is sort of seldom that we see cellphone reveals that do one thing actually completely different—whether or not it’s the Soli radar when Google launched the Pixel 4 or the Dynamic Island that debuted with the iPhone 14 Pro. And now, the Honor Magic 6 has caught our consideration with its capability to trace your eyes to manage apps.

Yes, Honor’s newest flagship—introduced throughout Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit—lets you management it utilizing your eyes. Honor is looking it the ‘Magic Capsule,’ and within the tech demo proven by the model, we are able to observe a girl interacting with the Uber utility. Once she alters her gaze, the applying opens in full.

According to Honor, the expertise entails “eye-tracking-based multimodal interaction,” and it definitely seems promising from what we noticed within the demo. However, it stays to be seen how practical this may very well be in actual life and what sorts of interactions app makers can provide you with—particularly for such a distinct segment product.

In the previous, we noticed Google energy the Pixel 4 with the military-grade Soli Radar. It’s protected to say that regardless of the preliminary promise, which concerned the flexibility to manage the gadget with hand gestures—the expertise by no means actually took off, and Google dropped assist within the subsequent technology itself when the Pixel 5 was launched. Here’s hoping that Honor might convey a unique expertise that is still practical.

Notably, Honor additionally revealed different particulars in regards to the Honor Magic 6. Like a number of the different upcoming flagships, such because the iQOO 12 and OnePlus 12, which might be powered by the newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, the Honor Magic 6 may even function this highly effective chipset.

Additionally, the Honor Magic 6 receives a justifiable share of generative AI assist because of the combination of Qualcomm’s on-device Large Language Model (LLM). The main use case is AI video technology; you possibly can create fast movies utilizing this expertise when you submit prompts to the YOYO assistant. “Users can easily create short videos featuring photos and footage stored on their devices. Templates, themes and music of the generated videos can also be customized with additional prompts for personalized results,” Honor notes.

On that word, Honor hasn’t given us a launch date or perhaps a window but; so it may very well be some time earlier than we see the cellphone touchdown up in individuals’s palms.

In associated news, Honor made a comeback within the Indian market final month, when it launched the Honor 90, an higher mid-range gadget. It comes with a 6.7-inch quad-curved AMOLED show with a 120Hz refresh price. It is powered by Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chipset with as much as 12GB of RAM, and as much as 256GB of UFS 3.1 inbuilt storage.