Huawei Honor Play Nebula Violet Unboxing

On June 6, Huawei announced an amazing smartphone, which is considered to the first handset coming with the company’s scary technology. If you guess, we are talking about the Honor Play and the new technology dubbed as the GPU Turbo. Today, it’s gone on sale. And we decided to get our hands on it. Meet the Huawei Honor Play Nebula Violet!

The Honor Play is equipped with GPU Turbo opened up the processing bottleneck between the EMUI operating system and the GPU / the CPU, enabling graphics processing efficiency to increase by up to 60%, enabling single-threaded wins over multiple threads, enabling thousands of smartphones to also play large-scale games.

This phone uses a 6.3-inch notch full-screen, with an 89% screen share. The back integrates a metal design, with a delicate metal blasting process. There are various color options, including Illusion Black, Aurora Blue, Nebula Violet, Magic Night Black and Charm Flame Cool Edition. The latter two models use laser-engraved line-streaked road design, which is full of a sense of technology.

The Honor Play is also quite powerful in terms of performance. It is equipped with a Kirin 970 processor, built-in 6GB RAM, a 3750mAh battery, a rear 16MP AI dual-camera, and runs on EMUI 8.2 (based on Android 8.1) and so on.

However, the selling point of the Honor Play is the GPU Turbo. It’s Huawei’s unique software and hardware optimization of the game performance. So it not only provides more stable game screens but also reduces game power consumption and reduce phone fever. Not only that, Honor’s GPU Turbo technology has learned tens of thousands of game screens and sound effects. It can perform scene recognition and performance optimization based on real-time scenes. It brings 4D vibration and 3D sound effects to smartphones, making games more realistic and improving game experience.

The 4GB+64GB model costs 1999 yuan; the 6GB+64GB version is priced at 2399 yuan, and the enhanced version costs 2499 yuan.