Honor 10 GT announced in China: Comes with 8GB of RAM and GPU Turbo technology
Honor 10 GT announced in China: Comes with 8GB of RAM and
GPU Turbo technology In June, Huawei’s sub-brand Honor had introduced Honor
Play with GPU Turbo feature. The latter is a software and hardware optimized
graphics acceleration technology that enhances the graphics performance of a
smartphone by 60 percent and at the same time it consumes 30 percent less
power. Huawei is in the process of making it available to several Huawei and
Honor phones through a software update.
Huawei launched the Honor 10 in April, The phone comes with
the Krin 970 SoC and 6GB of RAM. The Honor 10 comes with a 5.84-inch Full View
full-HD+ IPS LCD display with a 2280x1080 pixel resolution. It is powered by
Huawei's in-house Kirin 970 processor that packs in its own dedicated Neural
Processing Unit (NPU) for enabling dedicated AI functions inside the Honor 10.
The dual-SIM phone runs Android 8.1 Oreo-based EMUI 8.1. It is Honor’s flagship variant. However/ now
the company seems to be getting ready to launch a powerful version of the
smartphone, dubbed as the Honor 10 GT. The phone is expected to launch in China
at the moment, and is said to begin shipping from July 24. The Honor 10 GT
shares everything with the regular Honor 10, but, ships with more RAM, Huawei's
brand new GPU Turbo tech and Night mode update out-of-the-box. The Honor 10 GT
will be available in China from July 24 and it is yet to be seen whether it
makes it way outside its home turf in markets like India.
The company claims that GPU Turbo will boost the processor
efficiency by 60 percent and cut the power consumption by 30 percent. This new
variant will come with new AIS, AI Intelligent stabilization AI powered low
light image capture technology. This technology will automatically detect and
tune the camera to capture good night shots event without a monopod or tripod. Honor's
GPU Turbo technology is expected to be made publicly available on Honor 10
starting August 2018 in Asia Pacific, Europe, India, and the Middle East, as
announced by the company.
The Honor 10 GT has 8GB RAM, up from the 6GB found on the
Honor 10. Other additions include GPU Turbo and AI intelligent stabilization.
The Honor 10 will also receive the two new features. GPU Turbo promises 30%
less power consumption and over 60% boost in processor efficiency. Currently,
the GPU Turbo feature is being tested and the AIS will be available for beta
testing starting from July 12. As per reports, the GPU Turbo feature will be
rolled out for the Honor 10 starting from July 15 and the AIS feature will be
available by July end or early August.
10 GT comes with special features
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For taking pictures, the phone comes with a dual camera
setup at the back, which consists of a 24 megapixel sensor tagged alongside a
16-megapixel sensor. At the front, it boasts a 24-megapixel camera, While the
camera configuration seems to be the same as the Honor 10, Huawei is enabling
the Honor 10 GT with an AI based Super Night scene mode, which is also
available on the Huawei p20 and P20 Pro. However, the feature is expected to
come to the Honor 10 GT through a beta update from July 12. Honor is calling
the display as FullView display. The fingerprint scanner on the Honor 10 is
placed on the front side below the display. The rear camera has an aperture of
f/1.8, PDAF and the camera app includes a dedicated AI mode. Up front, the
company has added a 24MP selfie shooter.
Apart from the upgrade in RAM capacity, the Honor 10 GT is
exactly the same as the regular variant of the Honor 10 in terms of
specifications. The dual-SIM smartphone runs EMUI 8.1 on top of Android 8.1
Oreo, and sports a 5.84-inch full-HD+ (1080x2160 pixels) FullView display with
a 19:9 aspect ratio. The handset is powered by an in-house HiSilicon Kirin 970
SoC, paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. Underneath the hood,
the phone will be running a 3,400 mAH battery alongside Android 8.1 Oreo OS. The
software update is currently in beta, but should start arriving to all phones
no later than July 15. The 8 GB variant of the Honor 10 will appear for a flash
sale on July 24 at Honor’s online store and JD.com, but price is yet to be
unveiled. The 6 GB variant currently goes for CNY2,599 (less than $390/€340),
so the more powerful one should be slightly higher than that.
