HONOR makes sure to offer a solid price-quality ratio for its smartphones, but it also cares about the user’s health, and one of our biggest enemies in this case is undoubtedly blue light. The new HONOR 90 and HONOR Magic5 Pro incorporate technologies and innovations focused on vision care which represent an important difference and which we will share with you in this article.

before anything what is blue light We can define it as the fraction of visible light emitted by screens. On average, our eye can detect wavelengths from 390 to 750 nm, and blue light is located between 380 nm and 475 nm, i.e. at the lower end of these wavelengths. Infrared rays, on the other hand, occupy the longest wavelengths. On average, we can say that about 25% of visible white light is blue.

Good, And why does blue light have harmful effects? Well, because it has the shortest wavelength, it’s the one with the most energy, and because it negatively affects the cells that make up the macula. Not only can it cause visual stress and eye fatigue, It has also been shown to contribute to the early onset of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, which is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide.

Blue light can also cause a disruption of circadian rhythms, because having such a short wavelength, our brain can mistake it for sunlight and believe that it is not yet time to go to sleep. If this happens, the production of melatonin will decrease and we will have serious difficulties when we want to go to sleep and also maintain a completely normal rest all the time.

How HONOR 90 and HONOR Magic5 Pro deal with blue light

HONOR collaborated with Dr. Glen Jeffery, Professor of Neuroscience at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London (UCL) School of Brain Sciences, to investigate the real benefits of Eye-Comfort technology. Through this collaboration, the company has managed to create a set of unique HONOR eye comfort features that can truly alleviate the global problem digital eye strain.

Two of these technologies are intelligent dynamic dimming HONORS a circadian night display, which perform color temperature adjustments and work perfectly on the HONOR Magic5 Pro and the new HONOR 90 smartphones.

Screens are made of a mixture of blue, green and red light, which our eye perceives as a combination that creates the appearance of white light or produces other colors. In the attached chart, we can see the normal balance of these colors, shown in blue, for most phones. Features of HONOR Magic5 Pro and HONOR 90 a eye comfort function and i dream which reduces the blue late in the day by almost 40%, creating the spectral shift we can see in the red color graph. In the words of Dr. Glen Jeffery:

“The new HONOR 90 device offers a flicker-free 3840Hz display as well as Dynamic Dimming and Circadian Night Display modes. We tested the HONOR 90 for 24 hours and found that by the end of the day, Blue light emission has been reduced by 40%. Our test results show that using these features can promote healthier sleep and reduce eye strain. Blue light is a growing problem and in the long run it will be harmful to the physiology. Technological change is necessary and this is one of the things HONOR does best.”

We live in a society where screens have become another part of our day after day, so these types of technologies are of great value not only for improve our quality of life, but also to avoid the early onset of serious degenerative diseases such as AMD, which we have already mentioned.