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Introduction
The Honor Magic7 Pro has been official in China for a few months and now the world is getting in on it. The versatile camera setup, the latest high-end chipset and the hot new IP rating will likely be major selling points, but are the upgrades enough? Let’s try and find out.
For starters, the camera system looks pretty much unchanged from last year. However, this isn’t a bad thing in itself – the 200MP telephoto camera on the rear will always be attractive, and the high-resolution selfie camera with AF is nowhere near as common as it should be.
Of course, the Magic7 Pro gets a chipset upgrade, and it relies on the Snapdragon 8 Elite, as do many of its competitors. And, as with many of its competitors, it has an IP68/IP69 rating – not only can you submerge it, but you can also pressure wash it at high temperatures (some types). So there aren’t any special features, but the Magic lineup is keeping up with the times.
Honor, one of the pioneers of silicon carbon batteries, has also put one in the Magic7 Pro, although there is somewhat strange regional differentiation in capacity. We get the short end of the stick in our parts of the world, so in a way whatever battery life we get from the Magic7 Pro should be a worst-case scenario.
There are little tidbits on board too, at least one of them almost exclusive to Magic – 3D Face Unlock. We’re finding that the speakers may be louder than usual (sometimes the intro page is written after doing all the testing), and we’re also seeing a (welcome) shift from optical to ultrasonic fingerprint recognition. It also has an infrared emitter – which never hurts.
Honor Magic7 Pro specifications at a glance:
- Body: 162.7×77.1×8.8mm, 223g; Glass Front (Rhino Glass), Glass Back; IP68/IP69 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5 meters for 30 minutes).
- Display: 6.8″ LTPO OLED, 1B color, 120Hz, Dolby Vision, HDR, 1600 nits (HBM), 5000 nits (peak), 1280x2800px resolution, 19.7:9 aspect ratio, 453ppi; HDR image support.
- Chipset: Qualcomm SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite (3 nm): octa-core (2×4.32 GHz Oryon V2 Phoenix L + 6×3.53 GHz Oryon V2 Phoenix M); Adreno 830.
- Memory: 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM, 1TB 16GB RAM; UFS 4.0.
- OS/Software: Android 15, MagicOS 9.
- rear camera: wide (main): 50 MP, f/1.4-2.0, 23mm, 1/1.3″, 1.2µm, Dual Pixel PDAF, OIS; telephoto: 200 MP, f/2.6, 69mm, 1/1.4″, PDAF, OIS, 3x optical zoom; ultra wide angle: 50 MP, f/2.0, 12mm, 122˚, 1/2.88″, 0.61µm, Dual Pixel PDAF.
- Front Camera: wide (main): 50 MP, f/2.0, 22mm, 1/2.93″, 0.6μm, AF; depth:TOF 3D.
- video capture: rear camera: 4K@24/30/60fps, 1080p@24/30/60/120/240fps, Gyro-EIS, OIS, HDR, 10-bit video; front camera:4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps, Gyro-EIS.
- Battery: 5270mAh(Europe), 5850mAh(ROW); 100W wired charging, 80W wireless, reverse wireless, 5W reverse wired.
- Connectivity: 5G; Wi-Fi 7; BT 5.4, aptX HD; NFC; Infrared port.
- various: Fingerprint reader (under the display, ultrasonic); large amplitude stereo speakers; Emergency SOS (messages and calls) via satellite.
Unboxing of Honor Magic7 Pro
We’re getting ever closer to the point where this section will become redundant due to the continued shrinking of in-box content, but that’s where it happens. The Magic7 Pro, at least in our Euro spec, only comes with a cable – no charger, no case. The situation may differ where you are.
To be fair, the Magic6 Pro came without an adapter just last year – even before EU regulations made it standard. Respect chose Not to bundle anyone up – they weren’t forced to. We wonder if any of this still matters, since this has been in practice for several years.
