Honor Magic 6 lets you open apps by simply staring at the phone

Honor teased its Honor Magic 6 and its AI-powered features at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit this week. The upcoming flagship smartphone has been confirmed to run on Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC and will come with an eye-tracking interaction feature known as Magic Capsule. Furthermore, the Honor Magic 6 will include a virtual assistant called Yoyo that uses the AI ​​on Qualcomm’s device. The Huawei subsidiary has not yet set a date for the launch of Honor Magic 6. Like the Honor Magic 5 series, it could be released in the first quarter of 2024.

During a keynote at the Qualcomm Summit, Honor showed off the upcoming Honor Magic 6. The device is teased to carry the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC under the hood and promises to offer some new AI features. It is confirmed to come with a Magic Capsule functionality that will allow users to interact with the phone using their eyes. Much like Apple’s Dynamic Island, this feature allows users to open an app or interact with content on the phone by staring at the right spot.

Honor also presented a demo video showing what this technology will look like. The video shows a woman holding the Honor Magic 6 and accessing the Magic Capsule by looking at it. The handset displays the Uber app when she changes the direction of her gaze.

It is further confirmed that the Honor Magic 6 will come with built-in artificial intelligence powered by a large language model (LLM). Honor’s built-in chatbot Yoyo will use Qualcomm’s on-device AI and the smart assistant can create a short video using photos and footage stored on the phone based on voice commands. It works similarly to Google Bard and can customize templates, themes and music with prompts.

Honor has not confirmed a timetable for the announcement of Honor Magic 6 and the other specifications are also not yet known. However, we can expect it to become official in the first quarter of next year. The Honor Magic 5 and Honor Magic 5 Pro were unveiled last week at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona. The Honor Magic 5 series is equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC.