Honor Magic7 Lite
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- Stex
- sw3
- 18 Feb 2025
When we can expect Android 15 for this phone? Honor need to optimize WiFi reception on this device. It have hard times on 5ghz wifi
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- ETWL
- neR
- 16 Feb 2025
kvlada, 15 Feb 2025Definitely didn't expect Magic7 Lite to be such a down... moreThank you for your Review. I searched youtube for reviews but couldnt find many " opinions " on it. I was really hesitant whether I should get it or not, its for 280 euro where i live, 512gb.
Thanks to your Review I will look for another Mid Range phone, Most probably Poco X7 pro or something. I was seriously doubting the performance of the CPU, as the Chip is the same as the one in my 3 years old phone.
Poco x7 pro seems promising, but the cameras are okayish. Looks like that how they managed to keep it cheap.
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- kvlada
- AAs
- 15 Feb 2025
Definitely didn't expect Magic7 Lite to be such a downer! After three days of using it, here are my impressions:
The good:
- Comes with factory-installed "liquid" screen protector.
- Kinda waterproof (washing is possible but not full submersion).
- 512GB Memory / 8GB RAM model is somewhat cheap, around $250-300.
- Stereo speakers (headpiece works as speaker).
- There's a system shortcut to turn on flashlight by double clicking volume down button
- Curved OLED + Always-on screen, not something you usually see in this price range
- Apparently the screen glass is better than usual, so it should *in theory* withstand drops and impacts. I didn't want to test it myself, because I didn't get my phone for free like those Youtube reviewers.
The bad:
- Something's wrong with battery charging. Battery charge works at 5W speed, can't seem to work any faster. I've tried a Samsung fast charger, a Huawei charger, it still charges the same. From 50% to 100% in over 3 hours. While you're using the phone, it doesn't charge at all, like, it even loses percentage while being connected to the charger. Oh, and the charger doesn't come in the box, so you have no idea where to charge it on...
- MagicOS in 2025 is absolute garbage. Two-sided notification screen, what the hell? I don't want iPhone interface, that's why I bought Android. I can't choose shade options. Why are volume and backlight intensity sliders always there? Keyboard choice button doesn't show in gesture navigation mode. Some options are missing from settings menu. Some older apps which worked perfectly on Samsung and Motorola are behaving weird on MagicOS. And there are plenty of other tiny annoying things that I didn't expect from Honor.
- Automatic backlight correction doesn't always work correctly. It always set it too dim in low light.
- Snapdragon 6 Gen 1 is EXTREMELY sluggish on resource intensive apps like Google Maps. You won't get more than 3 fps. If you only watch videos and write messages it'll be probably okay.
- You can't turn off RAM swapping. If you have 8 GB of RAM, then 8 GB of memory is always allocated to swapping out app data. This could be an issue if you have 256GB of memory, as that could possibly wear out the flash chip in few years.
- Fingerprint reader is placed too low. It's hard to reach with one hand. They should've gone for a power button capacitive fingerprint reader instead.
- Camera capsule is too wide. You can't see more than 2-3 notification icons. If you turn off battery percentage you can't see the percentage on notification screen (most normal phones show battery % on notification shade).
- Camera opening has 4 holes, but only 2 holes are actual cameras, 1 hole is LED flash, and the last hole is dummy. Designer guy who did this just stopped caring.
- This is a low-cost, non-Samsung phone, so I would expect no software support at all. Maybe 2 or 3 security updates for the next 12 months, and nothing after it. But that's just what you get for your money.
- No 3.5mm headphone jack. I'd expect low-cost phones to have this jack, but I guess Honor thought this wasn't a low-cost phone.
All in all, it's a very mixed bag.
I've been using many Honor phones, ranging from 2018 to 2020, and they've performed flawlessly and had really no problem with them. Trump kicking Huawei out must've made them take a turn for the worse...
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- Anonymous
- AQe
- 13 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 11 Feb 2025Im pretty sure its just the same phone w different namesMagic 7Lite is for Europe with eSIM
X9c for asian market without eSIM
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- Shamrock Sean
- dSV
- 12 Feb 2025
maykelbembibre, 05 Feb 2025I've just bought one. The battery life is just disappo... moreYou gotta give new batteries a chance to settle in
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- Anonymous
- TwN
- 11 Feb 2025
Gokgok3, 10 Feb 2025I dont understand whats the difference honor magic7 lite an... moreIm pretty sure its just the same phone w different names
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- Gokgok3
- B$a
- 10 Feb 2025
I dont understand whats the difference honor magic7 lite and honor x9c everything the same dispite different release date..
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- Merlyn
- Fg1
- 06 Feb 2025
I have bought it yesterday in my country (France) to replace a very unperformant Redmi 13C and I am very satisfied by the performance and the smoothness of this device.
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- .nybreath
- T0T
- 05 Feb 2025
Itech, 01 Feb 2025This phone is not bad to be honest but but nowdays Chinese ... moreif only the redmi turbo 4 was available at the same price...this phone is now at 300 at amazon, while the x7 pro (aka eu redmi turbo) is pricer and it is a downgraded redmi turbo 4 with less mah and no notification led...this at 300 atm make a better option compared to poco at 370 considering this one has much better build quality and camera...
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- maykelbembibre
- pU3
- 05 Feb 2025
I've just bought one. The battery life is just disappointing. It went down 15% in one hour of usage. That never happened to me with other phones. I remember setting up my M15 for the first time and after one hour of configuring it, the battery went down like 5%.
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- mAg
- 05 Feb 2025
litteraly the Same as x60 pro ans x9b 😭😭🙏🏻
but not the same released date .. 🙏🏻
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- Anonymous
- AQe
- 03 Feb 2025
Same as X9c, but with an eSim for the european market
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- Itech
- gxG
- 01 Feb 2025
This phone is not bad to be honest but but nowdays Chinese budget beats any global budget out there example -redmi turbo 4:the same price way better specs & performance.Some might not agree with the OS but for me hyper os 2 is a improvement from hyper os 1
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- gandrew2k3
- AZY
- 31 Jan 2025
Hi Gsmarena.
Please consider making a detailed review of this phone. I am really interested in it.
Thank you!
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- Anonymous
- jJK
- 28 Jan 2025
Dns, 27 Jan 2025Is this best choice for its price? Or what is the best choi... moreread the latest comments in Honor X9c topic
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- Anonymous
- MpN
- 28 Jan 2025
Dns, 27 Jan 2025Is this best choice for its price? Or what is the best choi... morePoco X7 Pro...global version...6000Mah
have a chinese version
Redmi Turbo 4....6550Mah
Turbo 4 in Aliexpress around 315$ u can find it
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- Anonymous
- A5i
- 27 Jan 2025
kwisatz haderach, 13 Jan 2025In Romania it's about 420 Euros.Honor X9C
chinese version with GOOGLE PLAY
299$
https://m.gsmarena.com/honor_x9c-13490.php
Read the comments about it
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- Dns
- JHd
- 27 Jan 2025
Is this best choice for its price? Or what is the best choice for 300-350€?