The Honor Magic8 Pro has arrived with the latest Qualcomm processor, an impressive camera, a huge battery, and plenty of AI to keep you occupied. What else would you expect from a self-described “global AI device ecosystem company”?

Impressive hardware

A press image showing the Honor Magic8 Pro
Credit: Honor

Before we go into all that AI, it’s important to talk about the hardware you’ll actually hold. The Honor Magic8 Pro has a 6.71-inch OLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate, and so you can kiss goodbye to your retinas, a peak brightness of 6,000 nits.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 provides the processing power, making it only the second phone with the chip to be officially announced after the Xiaomi 17 series. It comes with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage space.

There are three cameras on the back with a 50MP main, a 50MP wide-angle, and a 200MP telephoto camera for a 3.7x optical zoom. The main and telephoto cameras both have optical image stabilization (OIS), while the wide-angle enables a macro mode.

Finally, energy is delivered by a massive 7,100mAh silicon-carbon battery complete with wired and wireless charging. However, when the phone is eventually released in Europe, the capacity will fall to 6,270mAh.

Honor AI

Honor is promoting the AI features as reasons to choose the Magic8 Pro, and there are some interesting additions. The Honor AI agent is called up using an AI Button, and can assist with general duties, all conveyed to it using natural language.

For example, you’ll be able to ask it to find and delete blurry photos, summarize expenses to email to your company, and more. Honor says its AI agent will understand 3,000 different scenarios.

The AI Button will also enable visual search using the camera, where an AI Video Call lets you chat to the AI agent about what you’re seeing in real time.

Outside of the agent, Honor’s AI works in the camera, where Magic Color will enhance colors in your photos, and create filters based on reference images. AI also assists with the telephoto mode to minimize camera shake.

Coming soon

At the moment Honor has announced the Magic8 Pro and other Magic8 series devices for China, where the AI is powered by its own Yoyo assistant.

Honor has confirmed the Magic 8 Pro will be released globally before the end of the year, when we’d expect to see Google Gemini onboard, and it’s possible some of the features mentioned above may not operate. Honor does not sell its smartphones in the U.S..