Honor Magic7 Pro review

17 January 2025


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  • 18 Jan 2025

it Urks me apple and Samsung continuing to be rated so highly, with the likes of xiaomi, Huawei, oppo, honor, vivo Producing some of the best smartphones pound for pound on offer, such bias and complicity because they are the biggest known brand
Honor have yet again produced a magnificent device with great capability and with current offers 828 usd half that of the above flagships

    Aierlan, 18 Jan 2025Notebookcheck measure the colour accuracy of photos and thi... moreI don't know what Notebookcheck did, but my wife has Magic 6 Pro with the same main sensor as Magic 7 Pro. What I have to say, if you do photos of simple scenes, full face portrait or full-length portrait - everything okay. But if you turn your head, body at some degree... here starts the "magic" (even with AI enhancement switched off). The blind and stupid AI lost faces and bodies, doesn't identify/recognise a humans on a picture as a humans, so it doesn't add/replace correct skin color and proper processing for humans. The results: grayish, greenish, orangeish skin tones (poor color rendering, btw we are caucasian), children faces with deep wrinkles (cause of silly and awkward contrast and sharpness boost). Cameraphone, lol. A real camera, even the pocket-sized Sony ZV1, destroys the Magic 6 Pro in all scenarios (except for shooting HDR video, which the camera cannot do).
    I had Huawei P40 Pro, it did not have such issues. Nubia Z60 Ultra doesn't have such issues (best cameraphone right now, best quality ultrawide, the only 35mm main camera). Nothing Phone (1) has similar problems with poor color rendering, but overall it has midrange camera and weak CPU.

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      • Zuzuz
      • mA{
      • 18 Jan 2025

      This one gets 4.4, and Poco X7 Pro gets 4.3?!
      1+ 13R gets only 4.2?

      Strange ways on GSMarena

        Samesung, 18 Jan 2025If samesung next phones with same hardware as last 5 years ... moreThey won't be scrutinised as hard as they should be for their bad hardware choices, be sure of that.

          Ottonis, 18 Jan 2025I don't like the overprocessed looks of it's phot... moreI totally get your point about Sony as it still produces the most realistic photo quality I've seen. But against its other Chinese rivals, Samsung, Apple, and Google, it's actually not too bad. I don't see any oversharpening artefacts in the photos. While it does look like it has some noise reduction applied, it's not as heavy as Samsung.

            I don't like the overprocessed looks of it's photos, especially the ones from the 3x telephoto camera. Leaves and grass look like AI-sharpening gone wrong, and there is an absurd amount of chromatic aberration along high-contrast edges.
            The opposite of it would be the Sony Xperia 1 vi that has one of the most naturally looking renderings of irregular/random fine objects such as foliage.

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              • Krishna
              • CbE
              • 18 Jan 2025

              The colours are awesome

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                • Samesung
                • Tun
                • 18 Jan 2025

                If samesung next phones with same hardware as last 5 years get high scores this time I'm not reading gsmarena more.

                  xcv, 18 Jan 2025Even notebookcheck put in negatives: - overheated during c... morefor the first part i answered before: oppo reaches 48 C easly....VIVO reaches 48 C easily so why they dont force stop the 3D mark operation? because they dont care......x8 pro has 45% stability in 3D mark does that even prove anything? its just 55% wasted power while being able to cook an egg on it and thats just GPU tests
                  it seems honor has put a 45 C temperature limit because doesnt matter if its able to do the test at the end its just not gonna be good result .....you just make up stuff about honors quality while the phone is even cooler than other brands it just has lower temperature safety limit

                  for the secound part :: yes honor is selling weak version of it in EU but i answered this before too {{i dont know about the battery but not having a charger thats 100% on europol about some enviormental rules .......im 99% sure they do this to sneak around some EU enviormental tax or somthing }} so stop blaming honor and go find the reason in your company tax policys

                  and for the last part: you know 80% of the work load of the phone is done by the cpu right ? if your not a phone gamer(and not even 2D games but 3D games) your phone can have a gpu from 2020 and still have no bottleneck because unlike a computer all the processing is done by CPU and gpu just accelerates those and makes your screen work.....thats why we have 8 CPU cores up to 4.3 mHz and only 3 GPU cores up to 1.1 mHz in 8elite....so CPU stability is way more important than GPU so dont worry about watching movie under a direct sunlight while using waze in summer becasuse phone is stable (which not a single human being does)and just sit under a shade or somthing ...please increase your knowledge than complain about obvious matters

                    xcv, 17 Jan 2025Over 1100 € in Germany 😮. Good luck selling to anybody. ... moreNot many phones have Bluetooth LE audio working at the moment, but the phone is compatible as I checked with the nRF app. I'm hopeful it will come in a future update

                      I need new phone, 17 Jan 2025nope ....only EU is 5270 and no charger .....rest of the wo... moreIf you're referring to the non promotional periods you're correct, however Honor UK are currently offering a free 100 w charger along with screen protection as part of their early bird promotional period

                        Poppy10, 18 Jan 2025It only comes with a 66W charger in the UKThe charger is 100w which is offered for free for a limited time via Honor UK

                          Shabir , 18 Jan 2025New update ?

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                            • Anonymous
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                            • 18 Jan 2025

                            xcv, 18 Jan 2025Even notebookcheck put in negatives: - overheated during c... more2 month later price going to drop to $800 and 6 month later price drops again to $600

                              PatDat, 17 Jan 2025Color science is below average, telephoto uses crop on alre... moreNotebookcheck measure the colour accuracy of photos and this had deviations of below 10 for all colours. That's actually really good. Not sure which colour profile they chose as there are 3 colour options on the Honor magic series (at least on the Chinese variant) but it produced colours very naturally and even in the lowlight test also it was pretty good. 'The ColorChecker was captured very naturally and the DeltaE deviations always remained below a value of 9—exemplary.'

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                                • nUk
                                • 18 Jan 2025

                                I need new phone, 17 Jan 2025ok hold on .....i saw the test made by notebook but all the... moreEven notebookcheck put in negatives:
                                - overheated during certain stress tests

                                And you contradict yourself. If those temps are fine, why it shut down 3DMark app?
                                You give few possible explanations but other Chinese phones with the same battery tech and SoC don't act like that.
                                CPU under heavy stress is irrelevant as most operations on the phone are done by the various parts of SoC. Real life example:
                                - Streaming 1080p video over 5G network, using navigation app in the background in the summer (over 35C), and screen is in auto brightness which means max in direct sunlight.
                                I don't think Magic7 Pro could do that without crashing apps as those operations stress almost whole SoC + display.

                                In the end of day with the price of over 1100 €, nobody is going to buy it. That's the problem with every Chinese flagship. They are way overpriced in Europe, and buyers with 1000+ € budget simply buy iPhone or rarely Samsung S model. It's reality.

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                                  • nUk
                                  • 18 Jan 2025

                                  Auguste, 18 Jan 2025As a European Teutophile, I lament the absence of German-ma... moreYou can still buy made in Germany Gigaset Android phones, but they are 2+ years old and overpriced, plus Gigaset is in insolvency for quite some time, so yeah, no :/.

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                                    • Bukiiii87
                                    • 3PI
                                    • 18 Jan 2025

                                    For this price better option is OnePlus 13, which have 6000mAh battery, also if you buy the phone from their site you get the charger as a gift, nice workaround for EU law.

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                                      • Inedian
                                      • L2r
                                      • 18 Jan 2025

                                      Flagship phones of each company should be released once in two or maybe even in three years.

                                        xcv, 17 Jan 2025The CPU stress test done by gsmarena is irrelevant as it on... moreif u want something to not overheat a mid-range it's your friend, i tried honor 200 pro and that phone got worm and hot while playing something, got the honor 200 and the problem it's gone , barely getting worm while charging with the battery temp feature on witch limit the charging speed when temps are higher than 35c , let's be real besides maybe camera this phone does 95% of a flagship and i really don't use a flagship to it's potential that's why i gave up buying 1000+ smartphone, this phone even afer some gaming barely getting worm because cpu it's not that powerful and I'm fine with that

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