During the Snapdragon Summit 2023 organized by Qualcomm to announce its new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, several brands have positioned themselves to integrate this Soc and are already presenting the future features of their upcoming high-end smartphones, including Honor, which announces that it can push back the boundaries of innovation, particularly thanks to the ubiquity of artificial intelligence.
A few days ago in Hawaii, the Honor brand took the opportunity of the Snapdragon Summit 2023 to present its latest innovation advances and announced that its next flagships, The Honor Magic6 and Magic6 Pro are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile platform. So these models would be is capable of processing an impressive number of operations, up to seven billion parameters, via the broad language model (LLM). This announcement is the result of a close collaboration between Honor and Qualcomm Technologies, combining their expertise to create an ecosystem focused on user experience and enabling seamless interactions across a variety of devices.
This Honor embedded LLM model differs from cloud LLM models in that it relies on a deep understanding of the user to provide personalized services while maintaining their privacy. Confidentiality and offline use are also worth highlighting. So, The combined efforts of both companies focused on performance, efficiency and data protection, which allows Honor Magic6 (and Magic6 Pro) to use LLM efficiently while ensuring the security of the data stored on the device. They will be officially announced in the coming months.
Automatic AI photo creation, eye tracking and sharing across devices
The Chinese brand also used the Snapdragon Summit to conduct one Demo highlighting AI video creation capability. Users of mobile phones equipped with this technology (chip) can give instructions to the built-in intelligent voice assistant YOYO to easily create short personalized videos from photos and sequences stored on their devices. Certain elements can then be easily modified to achieve even more personalized results.
Demo video of the AI photo creation feature
At the same time, smartphones from the Honor Magic6 series will be offered two original functions: Magic Capsule, MagicRing.
Magic Capsule is based on sensors installed above the screen in a front position next to the selfie sensor. This feature offers multimodal interaction using eye tracking. When a notification appears in the form of a small window at the top of the screen and you look at it, the mobile phone recognizes your gaze and automatically opens the application corresponding to the notification. Ask. You no longer have to swipe your finger on the notification to open it.
The MagicRing functioncoupled with the seamless technology integrated into Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Soc, enables more diverse data exchange between the brand’s devices, all in a more stable and energy efficient experience than ever before. Files, images, full-screen applications and other content can be seamlessly and easily transferred from one device to another without forgetting mouse and keyboard controls.
Honor MagicRing feature demo video