아너는 V40 모델의 경우 128GB 스토리지 옵션이 3,599위안, 256GB 버전은 3,999위안(약 556달러)의 가격을 책정했다고 14일 새벽 선전(Shenzhen)에서 열린 출시 콘퍼런스에서 밝혔다.
V4 모델은 2676×1236 픽셀의 풀 HD+ 해상도를 지원하는 6.72인치 OLED 곡선 디스플레이가 탑재되었다. 더불어 대만의 미디어텍의 Dimensity 1000+ 칩셋으로 운영되며, 차세대 5G 모바일 네트워크에 연결할 수 있다.
V40는 66W 초고속 충전을 지원하며, 아너 사는 해당 기기가 60%까지 충전하는 데 15분밖에 걸리지 않는다고 주장한다. 더불어 50W 무선 충전 또한 지원한다.
Zhao는 지난 5개월은 “아너에게 매우 어렵지만 의미 있는” 시간이었다고 말했다. 또한 중고가급 휴대전화 시장에서 지속적으로 돌파구를 마련할 것을 약속하며, 현재 자사가 전 세계 5개 연구개발(R&D) 사무소와 100개 이상의 이노베이션 랩을 보유하고 있다고 덧붙였다.
아너 사는 2021년, 2020년 출하량보다 40% 늘어난 1억 대 스마트폰 생산이라는 야심찬 목표를 세웠다. 그 매출의 대부분은 중국으로부터다.
또한 아너 사는 지난 12월 25일 마이크로소프트로부터 윈도우 10의 라이센스를 확보할 수 있게 되어 노트북을 운영체제와 함께 전 세계에 출하할 수 있게 되었다고 발표했다.
Honor’s V40 is priced at 3,599 yuan ($556) for the 128GB storage option and 3,999 yuan for the 256GB version, the now-independent company said at its launch conference in Shenzhen early Friday.
Available in three colors — silver, black and rose gold, the new phone went on sale at noon in China and sold out in under four minutes across Honor’s online store, Tmall, JD.com and Suning, the company said in an update on its official Weibo account.
The phone is equipped with a 6.72-inch OLED curved display supporting a Full HD+ resolution of 2676 x 1236 pixels. It runs on Taiwan’s MediaTek Dimensity 1000+ chipset and can connect to next-generation 5G mobile networks.
The all new V40 features a quad-camera setup with a 50-megapixel primary shooter, which also supports 4K HDR time-lapse photography. The other two cameras are an 8-megapixel ultra-wide camera and a 2-megapixel macro camera with a laser focus sensor. It also has a LED flashlight as well as a dual selfie camera.
The new phone supports 66W super-fast charging and Honor claims that it will only take 15 minutes for the device to charge to 60%. It also supports 50W wireless charging.
Honor CEO Zhao Ming told Chinese media after the press launch that all of Honor’s past suppliers have resumed working with the company, including AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel and MediaTek. He added that the company currently has more than 8,000 employees, half of whom are developers.
Zhao said the past five months were “extremely difficult yet meaningful” for Honor. Promising that the company will continue to make breakthroughs in the mid-to-high-end mobile phone market, Zhao added that Honor currently has five R&D offices around the world and more than 100 innovation labs.
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Huawei sold its budget smartphone sub-brand Honor to a consortium of over 30 agents, dealers and government-backed entities in November 2020, saying it was under “tremendous pressure” to do so amid US sanctions that threatened Huawei’s hardware supply, including key chipsets.
Honor has set an ambitious target of producing 100 million smartphones in 2021, a 40% increase from the number of phones that the company shipped in 2020. The majority of the company’s sales come from China.
It also announced on Dec. 25 that it has been able to secure licenses for Windows 10 from Microsoft, allowing the company to ship laptops globally with the operating system.