You don’t earn a spot among the many greatest smartphones today with no cracking set of cameras. Honor has taken that to coronary heart for its newest flagship effort, including one of many highest pixel depend telephoto sensors I’ve ever seen on a telephone. The Honor Magic 7 Professional additionally doubles down on AI smarts, and guarantees oodles of energy courtesy of a Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU.
The alternative for the slightly sensible Honor Magic 6 Professional was introduced for China, forward of an anticipated rollout in early 2025. It seems to be each bit the worthy successor at first look. There’s a 6.8in quad-curved display up entrance, an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor beneath, and Honor’s acquainted 3D depth-sensing selfie digicam cutout up prime for facial recognition. With a peak 5000 nits, the OLED panel is without doubt one of the brightest of any smartphone, whereas LTPO tech brings an adaptive 1-120Hz refresh fee.
IP68 and IP69 elemental safety makes this one significantly sturdy telephone, and satellite tv for pc communication (for the Chinese language variant, not less than) ought to imply you’re by no means stranded with no solution to message dwelling. The 5850mAh capability battery ought to final upwards of two days between top-ups, and it will probably deal with both 100W wired or 80W wi-fi refuelling.
It’s images that ought to see the largest positive aspects. The lead 50MP snapper has a variable f/1.4-f/2.0 aperture, whereas the telephoto will increase its pixel depend to an enormous 200MP. Each get optical picture stabilisation, whereas the 50MP ultrawide can double as a macro lens. Honor’s Eagle Eye tech ought to imply it will probably take crisp photographs of fast-moving topics, and there are a bunch of AI-assisted taking pictures modes on board.
AI can be the star of Magic UI 9.0. The agency’s Android interface has a YOYO sensible assistant that may management apps together with your voice, like ordering a takeway out of your favorite quick meals app, and may recognise onscreen textual content. A minimum of, it will probably in China – there’s no phrase on how a lot performance will stick round for the worldwide launch, and the way a lot might be handed over to Google Gemini.
Anticipate the Honor Magic 7 Professional to reach with a selection of 12GB or 16GB of RAM, and 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of on-board storage. It’ll be obtainable in Moon Shadow Gray, Snowy White, Sky Blue, and Velvet Black colors. Costs are set to start out from 5699 RMB (bout £620/$800), although anticipate them to virtually double by the point the telephone will get a worldwide launch.
Honor additionally pulled again the curtain on the common Magic 7, which steps down on display measurement (6.78in) and makes use of a flat OLED panel. It makes use of 50MP sensors for all three of its rear cameras. Battery capability additionally dips to 5650mAh, and it does with out the 3D depth sensor for facial recognition.
It’s arriving in the identical three colors because the Magic 7 Professional, together with a bespoke Morning Glow Gold possibility. The Magic 7 goes on sale in China on November 8, at 4499 RMB (roughly £480/$630) for the 12GB/256GB variant, rising to 5499 (about £600/$770) for the 16GB/1TB mannequin. The outgoing Magic 6 by no means made it exterior of China, so I’m not anticipating this new mannequin to journey very far both.