HONOR‘s GT line, the company’s gaming-focused foray into the increasingly competitive smartphone arena, just got a refresh.

Meet the HONOR GT, the successor to last year’s China-only HONOR 90 GT and a phone that’s clearly gunning for the price-to-performance sweet spot. There’s no word yet on a wider release for the HONOR GT outside of China, but fingers crossed it comes to the Philippines and beyond.

This isn’t just a spec bump over the previous model; HONOR has packed some serious specs under the hood. We’re talking Qualcomm’s flagship-grade Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset, a custom cooling solution designed to prevent thermal throttling during marathon gaming sessions, and a hefty 5,300mAh silicon-carbon battery that supports blazing-fast 100-watt wired charging. So yes, this thing should be fast.

Pricing in China starts at ¥2,199 (around $302 or P17,806 converted) for the base 12GB/256GB configuration, climbing to ¥3,299 ($453 or P26,713) for the top-tier 16GB/1TB trim. It’s available right now on HONOR’s Chinese website, with shipments scheduled to begin tomorrow, December 18. Color options include a glossy Ice White as well as matte finishes in Phantom Black and Aurora Green.

As you can see, the design of the HONOR GT leaves little room for interpretation — this is a gaming phone through and through. Flat edges, a flat display, and design elements that scream “racing-inspired” make it perfectly clear who this device is built for.

HONOR is pushing the AI angle here, too. This unit boasts some AI-powered features, including an automatic eye-comfort mode, an automatic image enhancer and color tuning for the display, and a potentially useful wet-hand touch mode. There’s even an interesting feature that claims to detect motion sickness during in-car gaming and, even more curiously, promote melatonin production for better sleep.

To keep all that power in check, HONOR has implemented a 3D cooling system, featuring a 5,514 mm² vapor chamber heatsink, graphite elements, and 9W thermal conductive gel. Because heat is the enemy of performance. Rounding out the specs are a 6.7-inch FHD+ AMOLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, a 50-megapixel main camera, a 12-megapixel ultrawide, and a 16-megapixel front-facing camera.

The HONOR GT is clearly aimed at mobile gamers, packing 2023’s fastest Snapdragon silicon alongside a suite of gaming-focused perks. Whether all those features add up to a truly compelling experience remains to be seen, but on paper, it looks promising.

HONOR GT specs

• 6.7-inch AMOLED display, FHD+ resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, 4,000 nits peak brightness, 3,840Hz PWM dimming
• 4nm Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 5G chipset
• Adreno 750 GPU
• 12GB/16GB RAM
• 256GB/512GB/1TB storage
• Dual 50-megapixel main, 12-megapixel ultrawide rear cameras
• 16-megapixel front camera front camera
• In-display fingerprint reader
• 5,300mAh battery with 100-watt fast wired charging
• IP65 rating
• MagicOS 9.0 based on Android 15
• Colors: black, green, white

Main image via Weibo

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