Honor GT Makes a Powerful Comeback: AI-Powered Esports, Redefining Flagship Experience

Honor GT Makes a Powerful Comeback: AI-Powered Esports, Redefining Flagship ExperienceTwo years ago, Honor launched its first "GT" model the Honor X40 GT. Featuring the Snapdragon 888 flagship chip and a powerful 13-layer three-dimensional cooling system, it made waves in the performance phone market

Honor GT Makes a Powerful Comeback: AI-Powered Esports, Redefining Flagship Experience

Two years ago, Honor launched its first "GT" model the Honor X40 GT. Featuring the Snapdragon 888 flagship chip and a powerful 13-layer three-dimensional cooling system, it made waves in the performance phone market. Since then, Honor has released several "GT" models in its numbered and X series, all focusing on ultimate esports experiences. With the rise of open-world mobile games like Genshin Impact and Naraka: Blade Point, smooth performance in large-scale mobile games has become a standard for flagship phones, and consumer expectations have evolved from mere smoothness to high-definition, high-frame-rate gameplay.

Recognizing the growing importance of esports phones in the market, Honor announced at the Honor Magic7 series launch that the Honor GT would return as a new, independent series. On December 16th, Honor held an online product launch event, unveiling the Honor GT series' first product the Honor GT. This article will delve into the specifications and innovative technologies of this new flagship.

Top-Tier Hardware: The Perfect Fusion of Flagship Configuration and Innovative Design

Before its independence, Honor phones with the "GT" suffix already possessed distinct visual identities. For example, the Honor X40 GT featured racing car elements, and the Honor 90 GT had racing track decorative stripes all aligning with their performance characteristics. The Honor GT builds upon this, continuing the supercar design elements and incorporating an irregular oblique cut design on the camera module Deco, officially named the "Blade Eye." The "GT" lettering is engraved using a double oxidation process, appearing in gold on the black version for a stylish, contrasting design.

The Honor GT comes in three colors: Phantom Black, Ice Crystal White, and Aurora Green. Aurora Green revives the oversized HONOR logo design from the Honor 30, with the HONOR lettering vertically arranged on the back. Ice Crystal White uses a glossy material, making it prone to fingerprints, while the Phantom Black version's matte finish effectively avoids this problem.

The Honor GT features a 6.7-inch AI Oasis Eye-Protection Gaming Screen, a brand-new panel that is an industry first. It supports a 120Hz refresh rate and 1.5K resolution, and comes equipped with flagship-level AI sleep aid and 360-degree motion sickness recognition technology. Furthermore, the screen incorporates in-vehicle game scene recognition, effectively mitigating motion sickness during gameplay while traveling.

In terms of performance, the Honor GT boasts the "iron triangle" combination of Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, LPDDR5X, and UFS 4.0, delivering powerful performance. Additionally, it features a 5300mAh "Qinghai Lake Battery Esports Edition" with 100W wired fast charging. As the first product released as an independent series, the Honor GT achieves ultimate performance and peripheral configuration. From the flagship chip to the debuting Qinghai Lake Battery Esports Edition and AI Oasis Eye-Protection Gaming Screen, Honor demonstrates its commitment and determination to return to the mainstream mid-range market.

AI-Powered Esports: The Honor Phantom Engine Delivers a Revolutionary Experience

The highlight of the Honor GT launch event was the application of AI technology. The Honor Phantom Engine is the culmination of Honor's AI gaming technology in recent years. It optimizes keyframes, touch response, and battery life to provide players with a smoother gaming experience.

The Phantom Engine introduces AI rendering separation technology for the first time. This technology uses large models to predict keyframes in advance, thus improving rendering efficiency and reducing frame rate fluctuations, especially effective in high-load scenarios such as team battles and boss fights. By predicting high-performance demand scenarios, it sends instructions to the GPU in advance and generates interpolated frames, minimizing frame rate fluctuations.

In terms of touch response, the Phantom Engine debuts AI screen protector detection technology, effectively reducing touch latency and mis-touches caused by tempered glass screen protectors, ensuring accurate player control.

For battery life, the Phantom Engine features AI game scene precise recognition. Besides balancing power consumption for large-scale mobile games, it also optimizes mini-program games. Honor's official data shows that mini-program games are more prone to causing phone overheating and overload than large games, and the AI game scene recognition function effectively addresses this issue.

In addition to the Phantom Engine, the Honor GT also debuts the YOYO intelligent agent's one-click game check-in function, facilitating daily check-in tasks for players. This function will be officially launched in January 2025.

Honor GT leverages AI to reconstruct the system's underlying architecture, creating a mobile phone system that understands users better. The Honor GT debuts numerous AI + esports features, covering deep performance reconstruction of the underlying system and exclusive optimization for subtle scenarios, fully meeting the needs of players.

Hardware and Software Synergy: The Honor 3D Natural Circulation Cooling System

Besides software optimization, the Honor GT also debuts the Honor 3D Natural Circulation Cooling System. This system uses a 3D waterfall-simulating cavity VC, mimicking the natural waterfall pattern to create a height difference for efficient heat dissipation circulation. The perfect combination of hardware and software ensures the Honor GT's outstanding performance.

Honor GT: Targeting the Young User Market

From its inception, Honor possessed strong internet DNA. Although it shifted its focus to offline markets after some changes, the online market, especially the young user market, remains a key focus for Honor. The return of the Honor GT series demonstrates Honor's deeper technological reserves and signals its intention to challenge market competitors with flagship-level technology.

Honor GT's advantage in AI applications is particularly prominent. The Honor GT's pre-installed MagicOS 9.0 system boasts a wealth of AI functions. The new YOYO intelligent agent experience is consistent with the Magic7 flagship series, offering the best AI performance in its price range. The combination of AI and esports brings practical and professional AI features such as the Phantom Engine and YOYO game check-in.

Pricing and Conclusion

The price of the Honor GT is as follows:

• 12GB+256GB: 2199

• 16GB+256GB: 2399

• 12GB+512GB: 2599

• 16GB+512GB: 2899

• 16GB+1TB: 3299

The Honor GT isn't the cheapest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 phone on the market, but it offers the most comprehensive configuration and debuts several AI technologies. The starting price of 2199 offers excellent value for money. If one were to be picky, the 5300mAh battery capacity might seem slightly smaller compared to other performance flagships with batteries often exceeding 6000mAh.

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