Honor unveiled two new fashions within the X60 collection and so they diverge greater than their X50 counterparts. There’s a Professional mannequin with a fancier display screen and extra processing energy (which additionally has an impact on the digicam capabilities).
The Honor X60 Professional has a curved OLED show, a 6.78” 120Hz panel with 1,224 x 2,700px decision (19.9:9). It has 10-bit colours and may attain a peak brightness of three,000 nits, that are managed with 3,840Hz high-frequency PWM dimming. The show can work with moist fingers (the cellphone itself is waterproof however with out an official IP ranking).
X60 Professional with a curved OLED show • X60 with a flat LCD
The X60 Professional remains to be powered by the Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, which is sort of a downgrade from the Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 used within the X50 Professional. In truth, the 6 Gen 1 is identical chip that was used within the vanilla X50. To be truthful, it’s higher than the chip contained in the vanilla X60 (extra on that in a bit) as it might probably document 4K video with the primary digicam, as a substitute of topping out at 1080p.
Talking of, each telephones have 108MP cameras plus 2MP depth sensors. These are 1/1.67” sensors with 9-to-1 binning (1.92µm efficient pixel measurement) and in-sensor 3x zoom. There’s no optical stabilization, however the lens is pretty quick with an f/1.75 aperture.
The identical 108MP digicam on each
The Professional mannequin has a pill-shaped punch gap, however that may be a massive gap for a small digicam – it has an 8MP sensor plus additional {hardware} (Honor didn’t trouble to say what it does). Additionally, observe that the Professional cellphone has an beneath show fingerprint reader, whereas the vanilla X60 (resulting from having an LCD) is utilizing a side-mounted reader.
8MP selfie cameras on each, however the Professional has a pill-shaped gap
The vanilla Honor X60 switches over to a flat show, nonetheless, it’s a downgrade to LCD. It measures 6.8” with a decrease 1,080 x 2,412px decision (20.1:9) and it achieves a decrease brightness of 850 nits (with DC dimming). It nonetheless runs at 120Hz, although.
The X60 selfie digicam additionally has an 8MP sensor, however it lives alone in a round punch gap. As for the rear digicam, it’s the identical as on the Professional, besides with out the 4K video mode.
It is a limitation of the Dimensity 7025-Extremely chipset (2x A78 @ 2.5GHz + 6x A55 @ 2.0GHz, BXM-8-256 GPU). The 2 new X60 fashions might be configured with 8GB or 12GB of RAM and 128GB, 256GB or 512GB storage. They launch with MagicOS 8.0, which is predicated on Android 14.
As much as 12GB of RAM and 512GB storage • Drop and waterproof construct
One other essential distinction between the Honor X60 and X60 Professional is battery. The vanilla mannequin has a big 5,800mAh battery with comparatively gradual 35W charging.
The X60 Professional will get an enormous 6,600mAh battery and sooner charging as well, 66W. This has a notable impression on video playback endurance in comparison with the vanilla X60 (25 hours vs. 19 hours), however the gaming endurance solely will get a small bump (10 hours vs. 9 hours). After all, the X60 Professional has the next decision show and a extra highly effective chipset, which is able to absorb extra energy.
X60 batteries: 6,600mAh on the X60 Professional and 5,800mAh on the X60
The Professional mannequin additionally boasts stereo audio system with Honor Histen 7.1 tech. They’ll enhance the quantity to 300% whenever you actually need to go loud.
Highly effective stereo audio system on the Honor X60 Professional
Connectivity is identical with one exception. Each are dual-SIM 5G telephones with Wi-Fi 5 (ac). The vanilla mannequin has a more moderen Bluetooth model (5.3 vs. 5.1 on the Professional), however each help the identical audio codecs: AAC, LDAC and aptX HD.
The exception is that the X60 Professional has two-way satellite tv for pc texting by way of the Beidou constellation, which can be utilized when cell service isn’t accessible.
The Honor X60 is offered in China now from Honor’s on-line retailer. The bottom 8/128GB mannequin prices CNY 1,200 (which converts to $170/€155/₹14,200). Listed below are the improve choices: 8/256GB for CNY 1,400, 12/256GB for CNY 1,600 and 12/512GB for 1,800. The X60 is offered in three colorways: Black, Inexperienced and Silver.
Honor X60 in: Black • Inexperienced • Silver
The Honor X60 Professional prices extra, however not by a lot. You’ll find it on Honor’s China retailer. The bottom 8/128GB mannequin begins at CNY 1,500 (transformed to different currencies, that is $210/€195/₹17,700). There are different reminiscence choices too: 8/256GB for CNY 1,700, 12/256GB for CNY 2,000 and, lastly, 12/512GB for CNY 2,300. The colour choices have one additional with Orange becoming a member of Black, Inexperienced and Silver. Observe that the totally different colours have totally different textures too.
Honor X60 Professional in: Orange • Black • Inexperienced • Silver
