Honor’s Magic 7 Pro Looks Flagship Through And Through

Honor’s flagship Magic 7 Pro launches successful nan UK and Europe today, powered by nan Snapdragon 8 Elite and protected by top-tier water-resistance. It too features a precocious solution 200 megapixel telephoto camera.

Arriving a week aft nan OnePlus 13 and a week earlier we expect to meet Samsung’s Galaxy S25 phones, nan Magic 7 Pro is among nan first phones to merchandise extracurricular of China pinch Qualcomm’s caller chipset inside. That makes it 1 of nan astir powerful phones connected nan market, peculiarly pinch 12GB of RAM. It too features a sizable 5,270mAh artillery built astir a silicon-carbon chemistry, allowing it to battalion overmuch powerfulness into a smaller abstraction pinch nan Magic 7 Pro measuring conscionable 8.8mm thick.

Much for illustration nan caller OnePlus telephone — and, unexpectedly, Motorola’s $299.99 Moto G Power, which launched successful nan US yesterday — nan Magic 7 Pro is immoderate IP68 and IP69-rated. That intends that successful summation to nan accustomed protection from particulate and submersion successful water, it should past vulnerability to steam and high-pressure h2o jets — cleanable if you regularly usage your telephone successful a jacuzzi, astir apt overkill for nan remainder of us.

Also different is nan phone’s 200 megapixel 3x periscopic camera. We’ve seen megapixel counts arsenic precocious arsenic this before, but mostly connected main cameras, not zoom lenses — with nan objection of Vivo’s X100 Ultra and X200 Pro. It’s bolstered by an AI Super Zoom characteristic that kicks successful astatine 30x zoom for added clarity, pinch this and a less different camera AI modes utilizing a cognition of on-device and cloud-based ample relationship models to fine-tune images.

There’s moreover overmuch AI than that, since it ships pinch Android 15 and Google’s Gemini AI app, which Honor has bolstered pinch its ain AI-powered takes connected translator and notes apps.

The Magic 7 Pro launched successful China past November, but this is its first value extracurricular of nan country. Honor is 1 of respective Chinese smartphone manufacturers that saw maturation successful world marketplace stock successful 2024, acknowledgment successful information to past year’s flagship Magic 6 bid and nan Magic V3, still nan thinnest foldable telephone available.

For its European motorboat nan Pro is joined by nan Magic 7 Lite, a midrange handset that uses nan comparatively sluggish Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 spot and arrives still moving Android 14. The trading constituent of that telephone is its tremendous 6,600mAh battery, which Honor claims will tally for 3 days. There’s nary mobility of nan regular Magic 7, which launched alongside nan Pro successful China.

The Magic 7 Pro is disposable to bid now from honor.com starting astatine £1,099.99 / €1,299 (about $1,340), pinch awesome retailers and conception carriers group to banal it too. The Magic 7 Lite is overmuch cheaper astatine £399.99 / €369, and too disposable now.