Honor’s Magic 8 Phones Have Huge Batteries And Oodles Of Ai

The Magic 8 Pro’s creation hasn’t changed excessively overmuch from nan Magic 7 Pro’s.

Honor announced its Magic 8 and Magic 8 Pro flagships astatine a motorboat arena successful China today, pinch an world motorboat scheduled for later this year. They boast immoderate of nan biggest batteries successful mainstream phones, on pinch a suite of AI features including a dedicated AI shortcut button.

The type of nan Magic 8 Pro announced coming successful China includes a 7,200mAh battery, pinch 7,000mAh successful nan regular Magic 8 which doesn’t rather lucifer nan 7,500mAh artillery of past month’s Xiaomi 17 Pro Max, though Honor claims its phones tin outlast Xiaomi’s acknowledgment to amended optimization. Honor hasn’t told maine really agelong to expect that artillery to last, though I’d expect it to present a mates days of normal usage. Honor’s managed this acknowledgment to nan latest procreation of its silicon-carbon artillery tech, which lets it cram larger capacities into smaller spaces. 

Outside of China, things will beryllium a small different though: nan world type of nan Pro’s artillery will beryllium a fraction smaller astatine 7,100mAh, pinch EU markets getting an moreover smaller (though honestly, still enormous) 6,270mAh battery, astir apt acknowledgment to nan world shipping regulations astir batteries. Charging will disagree a small too, pinch a 120W max wired velocity successful China, and 100W PPS support elsewhere — and up to 80W wireless supported everywhere, albeit only if you usage Honor’s ain charger.

Beyond nan battery, you shouldn’t beryllium excessively amazed to perceive that AI is simply a focus. Honor had already confirmed that nan Magic 8 phones characteristic a dedicated AI button, which we now cognize is utilized arsenic a shortcut for its Yoyo adjunct and doubles arsenic a camera shutter fastener too. It tin besides beryllium customized arsenic a shortcut to different telephone functions specified arsenic Yoyo Memories, an AI-powered retention abstraction for photos and documents that sounds alternatively for illustration Nothing’s Essential Space.

On nan camera side, not excessively overmuch has changed from last year’s Magic 7 Pro. The Magic 8 Pro’s 50-megapixel main camera has dropped nan adaptable aperture successful favour of a fixed f/1.6 lens, while nan 200-megapixel telephoto and 50-megapixel ultrawide lucifer nan Magic 7 Pro’s lenses connected paper. The mobility will beryllium really overmuch Honor’s touted AI enhancements really amended nan cameras’ last output.

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 provides nan power, together pinch 12GB of RAM and 512GB of retention connected nan world variant. Honor is besides keen to stress nan IP68 and IP69K durability rating, though carnivore successful mind that nan “K” only signifies testing pinch h2o jets a small person to nan telephone than successful nan modular IP69 test.

Both phones will tally MagicOS 10, nan latest type of Honor’s software, built connected apical of Android 16. It boasts a “translucent ocular design,” which you whitethorn not beryllium amazed to perceive includes tons of Liquid Glass-esque semi-transparent and blurred elements.

Honor gave maine nan specifications connected nan Magic 8 Pro up of its announcement, and I’ll update this article pinch much connected nan regular Magic 8 from nan China motorboat event, wherever nan institution besides announced caller Earbuds 4, nan Watch 5 Pro, and 3 MagicPad 3 tablets. The Magic 8 and Magic 8 Pro phones motorboat successful China this month, and nan company’s announcement promises an world merchandise “later this year.”