In abstract
- Honor MagicPad 3 Professional seems similar to Extremely
- Honor Watch 5 Professional supplies sharp eSIM smartwatch
- China solely at current
The Honor MagicPad 3 Professional pill and the Watch 5 Professional smartwatch have been introduced in China.
In addition to saying its new Honor Magic 8 flagship smartphone vary, Honor has introduced new pill and smartwatch choices.
The MagicPad 3 Professional slips in simply above the Honor MagicPad 3 that we reviewed again in August. It’s fronted by the identical 13.3-inch 3200 x 2136 LCD with the identical elevated 165Hz refresh price.
Nonetheless, it’s powered by a a lot meatier Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, which is a full two generations forward of the non-Professional’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

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That is backed by both 12GB or 16GB of RAM, and 256GB or 512GB of inner storage.
There’s a 12,450 mAh battery powering issues alongside, identical to the common Honor MagicPad 3, and the identical 66W charging assist.
The digicam set-up seems equivalent, too. In order that’s a 13Mp most important digicam, a 2Mp macro, and a 9Mp selfie digicam.

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Dimensions of 293.88 x 201.38 x 5.79mm and 595g are, unsurprisingly, equivalent. Certainly, the entire design seems similar to its non-Professional brother.
Right here’s us evaluating the Professional to its brother, but it surely’s extra attention-grabbing as a possible cut-price iPad Air different. It’s obtained the larger show, an analogous design, and probably comparable efficiency.
Pricing, in the meantime, begins from ¥3,799, which interprets to round £400. Naturally that’ll be fairly an enormous costlier when it hits the West, however we’d nonetheless anticipate it to return in across the iPad Air’s £599 asking value.
Honor Watch 5 Professional
The Honor Watch 5 Professional, in the meantime, slots in beneath the Honor Watch 5 Extremely that we reviewed earlier within the 12 months – and it would simply undercut the Apple Watch 11 by a fair larger margin.
It encompasses a 1.5-inch round AMOLED display with a 466 x 466 decision, housed in a 46.3 x 46.3 x 11.3mm 51.1g physique with a extra ‘traditional’ (i.e. non-octagonal) watch design. It’s rated to a water depth of 5ATM, and it’s IP68/IP69 licensed.

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The Watch 5 Professional runs on a 515mAh battery, with a claimed three days of battery life in common use.
There’s eSIM assist for phone-free calling, and it’s obtained prolonged satellite tv for pc monitoring assist (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, and QZSS).

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Apart from the standard suite of sensors you additionally get a coronary heart price monitor, a barometric strain sensor, an ECG sensor, and even a geomagnetic sensor.
It’s priced at ¥ 1,699 for the eSIM mannequin, which interprets to round £177. Once more, it’ll nearly definitely value extra when it travels West, however nearly definitely a good quantity lower than the £369 Apple Watch 11.
We’ll be conserving a watch out for world launches of each the Honor Watch 5 Professional and the Honor MagicPad 3 Professional.

