Honor’s Magic 7 Professional is a refined flagship Android telephone that weaves the newest AI options with cutting-edge {hardware}. It excels in all places that issues. You get an extremely versatile digicam, spectacular stamina, speedy charging, silky easy efficiency, and a very good show. A number of refined however essential enhancements over its predecessor elevate this smartphone to the following degree.
Chinese language telephone maker Honor has impressed me with its {hardware} of late, from final 12 months’s Magic 6 Professional to the impossibly svelte Honor Magic V3. This 12 months, it has paid extra consideration to the software program with some welcome polish. Its heavy funding in AI is starting to mature, with options that really feel extra sensible within the Magic 7 Professional than in its predecessors. It is a dear flagship at £1,099 ($1,346), and sadly it’s not formally bought within the US. However UK and European patrons should not sleep on the Magic.
Delicate Refinements
At first look, the Magic 7 Professional seems to be just like the 6 Professional, however I used to be delighted to discover a flatter show and body, making it much more snug to make use of and fewer vulnerable to unintentional touches than curved glass. Honor has toned down the digicam module, although it’s nonetheless sufficiently big to unbalance the telephone somewhat. Whereas this telephone felt massive after utilizing the Pixel 9, it’s manageable to deal with. I’m not in love with the marbled impact of my Lunar Shadow Gray assessment unit, but it surely’s extra attention-grabbing than the plain blue or black options.
The 6.8-inch display screen is pretty much as good as any I’ve examined. It’s vivid, easy, and sharp. By the numbers, it has a 2,800 x 1,200-pixel decision, a variable refresh price of as much as 120 Hz, and 1,600 nits brightness (as much as 5,000 nits for highlights). Video seems to be nice on the 7 Professional, with Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR Vivid help, and the audio system are good and loud with out distortion. Honor has additionally included a number of options meant to scale back eye fatigue and pressure, however they’re robust to quantify.
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The one slight irritation I had was with the big selfie digicam cutout, although you quickly get used to it. It’s a compromise I can settle for for the comfort of safe face unlock—a rarity on Android telephones, because it even works with banking apps.
There’s loads of energy beneath the hood with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip and 12 GB of RAM. As you’d count on, benchmark outcomes are on the high, and this telephone can run something. There’s additionally a really beneficiant 512 GB of speedy storage, which is greater than what most telephones provide at this worth. The Honor Magic 7 Professional has an IP68 and IP69 ranking too, that means it may be submerged and deal with water jets or steam.
Delving inside, a far larger degree of polish is clear all through. Honor talks up the AI within the Magic 7 Professional, and we’ll get into the particular options, but it surely permeates the telephone. AI has seeped into the telephone app to scale back background noise and make voices clearer, and there’s a privateness function designed to stop sound leakage and thwart eavesdroppers.