Honor Magic7 Pro review

17 January 2025


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Lister, 17 hours ago4.4 score with a battery that bad? Nah. same as s24 ultra is bad?

    I bought Honor Magic 6 Pro for my wife in a previous year for 1100 euro.
    It's successor Magic 7 Pro has a reduced battery capacity and the same main camera sensor with HUGE problems in color rendering/color temperature and crazy AI photo "enhancements".
    Rumors said it will have color sensor, I see a "color spectrum sensor" in the specs, but it is not mentioned in the review. So I suppose there is not changes. Honor Magic 6 Pro do 50% photos with a washed colors or a far missed colors/color temperature. AI works poorly, has no off button (AI scene detection is off since second day of purchase, of course), so you may see deep darkened hard wrinkles on faces, even children with pretty young faces may looks like a zombies. You cannot see all these problems in this review, because reviews on this site has strict set of simple scenes.
    Also the main camera has an awkward focal length 24mm with massive barrel distortion.
    I see no fixes, only a battery downgrade. Shame.

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      • Lister
      • pLd
      • 17 hours ago

      4.4 score with a battery that bad?

      Nah.

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        • xcv
        • nUk
        • 17 hours ago

        Over 1100 € in Germany 😮. Good luck selling to anybody.

        Some negatives:
        - overheating under heavy use and you get pop up warning to pause using it!
        - underwhelming telephoto camera
        - no UWB nor BT LE
        - EU version has 600 mAh smaller battery

          Great main cam, kinda poor UW cam and a good zoom cam. I don't understand why Honor fumbles the bag with such a world class sensor, last year they cropped the whole sensor and improperly processed the photos and now they just crop from the full 200 mp sensor and improperly process. The photos look like they're from a 1/2" sensor and not a gigantic (for a phone) 1/1.4". 2x crops of the telephoto look bad as well, imo worse than even Vivo's 10x shots. Disappointing. Everything looks so filled with artefacts at night, the main cam shots look like they have AI generated detail, the UW cam fumbles it and the telephoto cam has awful color noise or whatever thing at 2x crop alongside high noise in the 3x shots.

          Selfies are class leading, speakers are genuinely great (for normal flagships at least) and the battery charges fast as well. Even if the cameras weren't disappointing, the battery life runtime is, why the cut down battery for the EU markets? And GSMArena's tool not clarifying this makes it seem like this phone has worse battery life despite a larger battery lmao

          Dunno how to feel about this one man, the price is too high and too many corners were cut/it's just not as polished. I always feel conflicted with Honor phones, I like em but always think they're a cut below the rest. For an average person the acceptable rear camera setup would be just fine and pairing that with the great selfie cam, speakers and charging speed i can see the appeal for a normal person. But do normal people get phones outside of Samsung and Apple? I think only tech enthusiasts/people knowledgeable about tech do.

            PureOS, 20 hours agoThis one has best sustained performance of all SD 8 Elite p... morewhen the avg score this phone gets is equal to the minimum score of the IQOO 13, i think this phone would obviously get higher stability ;)

            For reference (from gsmarena reviews) :

            IQOO 13 :

            Max : 394K
            AVG : 345K
            Min : 327K
            Stability : 83%

            Magic7 Pro :

            Max : 356K
            Avg : 328K
            Min : 296K
            Stability : 86%

            IQOO 12 :

            Max : 382K
            Avg : 304K
            Min : 280K
            Stability : 74%

            X200 Pro :

            Max : 482K
            Avg : 321K
            Min : 275K
            Stability : 58%


            So you can see that phones either push for higher numbers/performance (Vivo phones) OR higher stability (Honor). So relax, in the real world use cases, the phones are going to just perform the same. Geekerwan's torture tests (5g data 300 nit screen genshin at 30 degrees) didn't affect the Find X8 Pro much which is close in power to these phones. So in the end it won't really affect you much.

            Besides, these synthetic benchmarks don't show the truth anyways, for example the Oneplus 13 performs worse than the OP 12 in this test. Goes to show how important app optimization/recognition is. What's most important is real life gaming benchmarks (Geekerwan and Xiaobai on YT do that) and video rendering test. The latter is the heaviest load that i think most normal people do, just editing videos and rendering em. And the speed also changes from app to app sometimes, so, really, it's quite tough to have a standardized phone speed comparison outside of games. For example, Adobe apps favor Apple heavily.

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              • Anonymous
              • JH0
              • 19 hours ago

              Gsmarena, you haven't posted 12x sample images because a 200 megapixel sensor theoretically extends the zoom reach by 4x. But the Honor Magic6 Pro apparently always used at least 4-1 binning, so if that's the case here as well, then you basically don't have a 200 megapixel sensor but a 50 megapixel sensor.

                THIS IS EPIC
                the EU version is not good with 5270 mAh and no charger but if you buy the Chinese version this is the best phone of the year
                that CPU and GPU stability and That battery life management with only 5270 mAh......wowowowowowoowwoo .........im sold man
                best speakers and Tof sensor too..........only advantage other phones(only vivo)might have are slightly better telephoto but at least not the half of the phone is camera bump

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                  • Deckimbal
                  • xQf
                  • 20 hours ago

                  It's a shame that you haven't tested the AI zoom function (30x and more). It would be nice if you could test this feature later.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • HKZ
                    • 20 hours ago

                    [deleted post]At least in the UK with discounts applied it costs £800 and comes with the 100W charger, what’s considered good value by your standards? It’s cheaper than all its flagship peers on release.

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                      • mGu
                      • 20 hours ago

                      PureOS, 20 hours agoThis one has best sustained performance of all SD 8 Elite p... moreSpeaking of worth, it makes no sense to upgrade every year despite any improvements.

                        I AM AMAZING, 20 hours agoThe 50MP UW shots are simply upscaled, unfortunately.Ov50d doesn't support unbinned mode and super-high resolution in the first place, look into spec sheet https://www.ovt.com/products/ov50d/

                          vik457, 21 hours agoRegarding ultrawide 50 mp mode ov50d doesn't support a... moreThe 50MP UW shots are simply upscaled, unfortunately.

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                            • Luke
                            • AZd
                            • 20 hours ago

                            WOW! 9h gaming with that battery capacity?! Insane efficiency and SW optimization. Just maybe S25 won't have issues too...

                              This one has best sustained performance of all SD 8 Elite phones. Still, not worth to upgrade from previous generation.

                                Regarding ultrawide 50 mp mode ov50d doesn't support above 4096*3072 and unbinned mode while ov50m does. Phone also doesn't support bluetooth le audio when it should and older phones including x14u do, which notebookcheck discovered.

                                  The same camera sensors as last year.
                                  Only a chipset refresh.
                                  Hard pass for me. They messed up the telephoto on this one.

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