Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Honor today debuted two phones – The Honor 9i (2018) and the Honor Play. However, these two aren’t the only new piece of tech that the Huawei sub-brand has launched today. The company also launched the ‘GPU Turbo’ technology which according to company’s claims will make use of optimisations on the software and hardware to deliver improved quality graphics along with saving a lot on power. Honor said that it is due to this technology that the smartphones will be able to increase the graphics processing efficiency by up to 60% and reduces the power consumption by 30%. Out of the two phones launched, the Honor Play is going to feature the GPU Turbo technology.

The Honor Play is going to be the first phone to come with GPU Turbo technology. The main highlight of the GPU Turbo is going to be the HDR like rendering, which owing to the upgrades on the phone, will be able to render HDR quality graphics even in non-HDR games. To give you sneak peek on the Honor Play, the smartphone sports a 6.3-inch display with Full HD+ (1080 x 2280 pixels) resolution and 19:9 aspect ratio. The device also comes with a notch. Owing to this new design, the screen-to-body ratio on the phone is 89%. The main processing power is delivered in the phone by the in-house manufactured Kirin 970 octa-core processor coupled with a dedicated NPU and 4GB/6GB of RAM depending on the variant.