Honor Magic7 RSR Porsche Design review

Display

The Honor Magic7 RSR Porsche Design features the same screen as the Honor Magic7 Pro - a 6.8-inch LTPO OLED panel with a 1,280x2,800px resolution (19.5:9 ratio, 453ppi density). It supports 10-bit color depth (1B colors), dynamic refresh rate up to 120Hz, 4320Hz PWM dimming, and HDR10+ and Dolby Vision streaming standards.

The screen is protected with a NanoCrystal Shield and has a pill-shaped cutout.

Honor advertises the screen as capable of up to 1,600 nits of high maximum and up to 5,000 nits of peak brightness when the right conditions are met.

We completed our standardized display measurements and we can confirm the high maximum automatic brightness is close to the official number - 1,510 nits. The highest manual brightness the phone offers without auto mode is 760 nits.

The minimum brightness we measured on a white patch was 2.2 nits.

The Magic7 RSR display supports dynamic refresh rate up to 120Hz. It drops all the way down to 1Hz for static content and always-on display, no matter the display mode (dynamic, high 120Hz or standard 60Hz). Streaming is usually done at either 120Hz or 60Hz, and so is gaming. Unsupported HFR apps are capped at 60Hz as usual.

There is no difference between the High and Dynamic modes - they are both dynamic and they both aim to use the maximum 120Hz in supported apps (even for UI in apps such as Netflix and YouTube). The Standard mode is also a dynamic one, it's just capped at 60Hz.

The Magic7 RSR Porsche Design supports all major HDR standards, including HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. We got HDR streams from YouTube, and Netflix was happy to oblige as well - it streams Dolby Vison in FullHD.

Battery life

The Honor Magic7 RSR Porsche Design is not a subject to battery fragmentation as was the case with the Magic7 Pro, thankfully. It is powered by the larger capacity cell - 5,850mAh. And if you have wondered what battery life the global model of the Matic7 Pro will provide, you are getting the answer right now!

The Magic7 Pro with the smaller 5,270mAh already posted some solid numbers, but the Magic7 RSR improved those quite a bit. The RSR model scored a 15:11h Active Use Score, and offered us 5h more hours on calls, and an extra hour on all on-screen tests - web, streaming, gaming. Overall, excellent, flagship if you will, times.

This is what endurance you can expect from the global model of the Magic7 Pro, which has 11% larger battery than the EU version.

Charging speed

The Honor Magic7 RSR Porsche Design supports 100W Honor SuperCharge wired charging and up to 80W wireless charging with the appropriate stand and power adapter. The phone comes with two 100W power adapters - an EU and a UK plug, and two corresponding 6A-rated USB-C cables.

Using the supplied 100W power adapter and 6A cable, the Magic7 RSR went from empty to 45% in just 15 minutes, up to 73% in 30 minutes, and we clocked 100% in the 45-minute mark.

The Honor Magic7 RSR supports wireless and reversed wireless charging (activated from within the battery settings).

The Magic7 RSR has a host of measures that you can enable in settings to prolong the lifespan of its battery. When turned on, the Smart Battery Capacity feature stops charging a notch below the cell's actual full capacity. Safe charging, meanwhile, cuts off power once the battery is full and starts over when the level drops below 95% - ensuring you won't be constantly pumping power in if you have your phone plugged in for longer. Additionally, you can have the phone cut off charging at 70%, 80% or 90% limit.

Speakers - loudness and quality

The Magic7 RSR has a hybrid stereo speaker setup. The speaker system features large cavity volume speakers for "unprecedented" bass and loudness.

It got an 'Excellent' rating for loudness in our standardized test! As promised, it does sound large and boomy making many premium pale in comparison. We tested the sound in the default 'Premium Bass' setting position - 'Standard mode' tones things down a bit and is cleaner at high volumes. And there is also a Surround setting, which alters the audio to create a believable surround effect.

Use the Playback controls to listen to the phone sample recordings (best use headphones). We measure the average loudness of the speakers in LUFS. A lower absolute value means a louder sound. A look at the frequency response chart will tell you how far off the ideal "0db" flat line is the reproduction of the bass, treble, and mid frequencies. You can add more phones to compare how they differ. The scores and ratings are not comparable with our older loudspeaker test. Learn more about how we test here.