In abstract
- Honor 500 Professional tipped to spice up telephoto
- Snapdragon 8 Elite chip
- Big battery
- Robotic cellphone to launch at MWC
Stories from China reveal that the Honor 500 Professional smartphone is within the works, and it seems poised to indicate the Pixel 10 up.
It solely seems like yesterday that we reviewed the Honor 400 Professional (seems it was Might), however phrase has already reached our ear regarding a follow-up.
We point out Digital Chat Station quite a bit on these pages, as they’re a frequent supply of smartphone suggestions and leaks over on Chinese language social community Weibo.
They’ve been at it once more, this time regarding the Honor 500 Professional. Based on the tipster, the brand new upper-mid-ranger will pack a 1/1.4-inch 200Mp essential digicam, very similar to the Honor 400 Professional earlier than it.
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New to this mannequin, it appears, might be a 64Mp OmniVision OV64B telephoto digicam, albeit with the identical 3x attain as earlier than.
Different specs, in keeping with the supply, embrace a battery that’s described as “the most important in the identical class”. The Honor 400 Professional packed a not-insubstantial 5300mAh cell right here in Europe, and an excellent larger 6000mAh cell elsewhere on the planet, however it sounds just like the Honor 500 Professional goes even larger.
The tipster additionally claims that the brand new cellphone goes to run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite – till very just lately the highest Android chip available on the market.
With these three specs alone, it appears the Honor 500 Professional may have the Google Pixel 10 crushed on efficiency and battery life, although its telephoto digicam gained’t be fairly so far-reaching. Issue within the Honor 400 Professional’s £700 launch value (£100 lower than the Pixel 10), and it may very well be a viable flagship different in 2026.
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Honor’s robotic gimbal gamble
In different Honor smartphone-related information, the corporate has confirmed through Instagram that it’s going to announce the Honor Robotic Telephone (which it teased on the Honor Magic 8 occasion) at MWC 2026 in March.
The subsequent Cell World Congress takes place from 2-5 March.
This new prototype (presumably) cellphone will characteristic a novel digicam that pops out on a stabilising gimbal arm, with accompanying AI picture recognition instruments.