Honor has launched its newest flagship telephone, the Honor Magic 8 Professional, with plenty of eye-catching options.
The follow-up to the Honor Magic 7 Professional has a well-recognized design, with the corporate’s signature ‘squircle’ digicam module and rounded rear panel.
Look nearer, although, and also you’ll discover that it’s slightly smaller by each metric. It measures 161.15 x 75 x 8.4mm and weighs 213g (10g lighter than its predecessor).
Its show is a tad smaller to suit, although this 6.71-inch OLED can hardly be known as a downgrade. It packs a 1256 x 2808 decision, a 1 to 120Hz refresh fee (courtesy of LTPO), 4320Hz PWM Dimming, and a bolstered peak HDR brightness of 6,000 nits. It’ll additionally hit a better 1,800 nits in excessive brightness mode.
It’s a good harder cookie than earlier than, too, with IP69K becoming a member of the earlier IP68 and IP69. It’s as waterproof as smartphones get, and it additionally boasts SGS 5-Star Drop Resistance Certification.
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Honor Magic 8 Professional efficiency and digicam
Efficiency is dealt with by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, which ought to make for equally class-leading outcomes to the OnePlus 15. That is backed by 12GB of RAM and a wholesome 512GB of storage – although that’s the one specification out there on this territory.
Honor has packed in one other succesful triple digicam system, with a 50Mp f/1.6 1/1.3” principal digicam, a 50Mp f/2.0 1/2.88″ ultra-wide, and a stand-out 200Mp f/2.6 1/1.4″ periscope telephoto with an elevated 3.7x zoom (up from 3x).
That final sensor is fairly enormous for a cell telephoto digicam. Honor is leaning into this by calling it a SuperNight Digicam
As on the Honor Magic 7 Professional, that final sensor is fairly enormous for a cell telephoto digicam. Honor is leaning into this by calling it a SuperNight Digicam, boasting of its low mild efficiency.
Magic Color is alleged to be “the business’s first AI-powered color engine”, able to intelligently extracting 16.77 million colors and permitting you to advantageous tune the tone of your photographs in actual time. This may contain carrying throughout the tone from your personal present photographs, utilizing them as templates.
There’s a 50Mp selfie digicam round entrance, as soon as once more enhanced by a 3D ToF sensor for safe facial recognition. Honor is considered one of treasured few Android producers to observe Apple’s lead on this division.
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Honor Magic 8 Professional battery and software program
Regardless of the smaller measurement of its newest telephone, Honor has elevated the scale of the Honor Magic 8 Professional’s battery to six,270mAh. That’s nonetheless not as massive because the Chinese language mannequin’s 7,200mAh, nor certainly the ‘world’ mannequin’s 7,100mAh, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a lot bigger than on earlier technology flaghship telephones.
Honor is making some sometimes daring claims about AI, mashing collectively its personal instruments with Google Gemini
There’s assist for 100W wired charging and 80W wi-fi, although you’ll want to produce your personal equipment for the job.
Honor is making some sometimes daring claims about AI, mashing collectively its personal instruments with Google Gemini. AI options embrace AI Deepfake Detection and AI Voice Cloning Detection, which is able to apparently shield you towards audio and video name manipulation.
The corporate has additionally included a devoted AI Button, which may be tied to a number of of the telephone’s AI capabilities, and also can function a digicam shortcut and shutter button.
Extra essential to us than MagicOS 10’s new AI integration is Honor’s promise of seven years of OS and safety updates, bringing the collection as much as the usual of rivals such because the Google Pixel 10 Professional XL and the Samsung Galaxy S25 Extremely.
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Honor Magic 8 Professional worth and availability
The Honor Magic 8 Professional may be purchased now instantly from the Honor web site, or from the same old third occasion retailers. Its sole configuration may be laid out in Dawn Gold, Sky Cyan, or Black, and it prices £1,099.99. There’s a tempting £200 early hen low cost, in case you’re fast.
That’s the identical worth because the Oppo Discover X9 Professional, whereas undercutting the iPhone 17 Professional Max and the Google Pixel 10 Professional XL.
Wish to know the way the digicam on the Honor Magic Professional stacks up towards the Pixel 10 Professional? We examined them head-to-head to search out out.