Honor Magic8 Pro hands-on review

15 November 2025


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moonfern, 17 Nov 2025Reduced battery size in Europe. What's going on? Well ... moreNo. Smaller batteries in europe are because of customs duties and fees chinese companies have to pay when entering european markets. It depends of the size of the battery. Final price of phone has to be comparable with other brands phones, thats why chinese companies give smaller battery to keep price low.

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    moonfern, 17 Nov 2025Reduced battery size in Europe. What's going on? Well ... moreMarket segmentation. Why to use much bigger expensive battery that opponent (Samsung), that is even not using Si-C material.

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      moonfern, 17 Nov 2025Reduced battery size in Europe. What's going on? Well ... moreIn such case how come the cheaper phones like Redmi 17 xome with the full battery capacity in Europe? And how is it "neutral" that we have our runtimes reduced/denied?

      We should refuse to buy from manufactures crippling our user experience

        Zadrigo, 16 Nov 2025Honor does have the power and money for marketing. However,... moreThey all spend huge money on brand ambassadors to be honest. Xiaomi and Redmi have ambassadors for every big phone launch, as do Oppo and Vivo. Honor definitely doesn't have the marketing power of those three companies though at least in China. For example you see a lot more bilboard advertising and adverts on large commercial buildings and this is an expensive form of advertising. Also it lacks in offline stores. Xiaomi destroys the other Android brands when it comes to offline stores in large cities in China these days and this is a crucial part of marketing too. Sure Honor also has a large marketing spend but they still don't have anywhere near the spending power of Xiaomi, at least in China but I think in Europe also. Vivo and Oppo also tend to sponsor large global sporting events. Honor is still a good bit smaller than all these other brands.

          Reduced battery size in Europe. What's going on? Well maybe this "sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity" In the industry a 300 charge/discharge cycle before dropping below 80% of capacity is the target. To meet that new rule in Europe one way is to have more spare capacity.and reduced size Another method is slower charging. Is this rule bad for the European customer? No the rule is indifferent. Preowned phone buyers win the most, the average phone owner will loose early on and win later. (the replacement cycle nowadays is 40 months). People buying phones every year or two year will loose.

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            Zadrigo, 16 Nov 2025Honor does have the power and money for marketing. However,... moreyeah, that ambassadors thing is ugly but it's probably executive their rotten strategy as they use similar strategy in china too.

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              • 16 Nov 2025

              SirArtur, 16 Nov 2025On both Honor and Vivo, pictures are massively overprocessed. :(Well, at least on Vivo you can disable most of the processing - you can turn down sharpening, contrast and saturation and set it as default if you like, you can disable HDR processing to lower those even more. Then you can do RAW and SRAW for even less processing.

                Invetor, 15 Nov 2025I'm liking the photos more than Vivo X300 Pro. The pro... moreOn both Honor and Vivo, pictures are massively overprocessed. :(

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                  • 16 Nov 2025

                  mat9v, 16 Nov 2025There is a lot of moiré and color patterns on grey surfaces... moreYea its weak, no progress from imx989 3 years ago...

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                    There is a lot of moiré and color patterns on grey surfaces, mostly on main sensor but some also on telephoto - seems like software umping contrast and saturation without control. Details in 1:1 are lacking, I wonder how will trees and grass look in standard gsmarena tests.

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                      "Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen SoC" there is the "5" missing.
                      thanks for the hands-on.

                        kurome, 16 Nov 2025Is this phone has a separate communication chip like OnePlu... moreThe Chinese one definitely does. It's called the C1+. This is what Honor says on their website. '
                        Honor Hongyan Communications
                        Honor Hongyan Six-Wing Antenna
                        By combining five communication chips, including a self-developed radio frequency enhancement chip,
                        the signal strength is improved by up to 70%'. I think the actual chip though is older than the G2 one in the Oneplus. Which one is better i don't know but the signal should definitely be better than phones without these type of chips. You'd probably have to wait for the global launch though to see if the global model is the same

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                          Shamrock Sean, 16 Nov 2025But Oppo and One Plus managed itMy guess they were ok with the extra cost? Of course I think Honor should have kept the 7200 for every region but what can we do? We have no saying in this matter..

                            Aierlan, 16 Nov 2025I'm just disappointed with the curved screen. If it w... moreIs this phone has a separate communication chip like OnePlus 15? Because I've never heard anyone said that in any review.

                              Great hands on review of the Honor Magic8 Pro! The design, camera, and performance insights were clear and really well presented. Excellent work.

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                                Aierlan, 16 Nov 2025I'm just disappointed with the curved screen. If it w... moreHonor does have the power and money for marketing. However, it is their ridiculous decisions what to do with those that limits them severely. In Europe they pumped ungodly amount of money in recent years, and it was in vain because they pushed into lifestyle and viewed themselves as fashion company, not technology company.

                                They gave huge amounts of money to "brand ambassadors" who never actually used anything but iPhone. And in this they would sign people who were not widely known, but in some extreme niche. For example, they would sign up some guy from "extreme sports" who is unonown to anyone, and they'd realize it, so then would spend 1/2 of the commercial actually explaining who that is, instead of having someone recognizable to carry the brand. And their executives just wanted to use marketing money for their luxuries, events, fashion shows and so on.

                                In my part of the world they are probably the most wasteful company on every level, from top to bottom. All do something like that on some level, only Honor does it on every level, all the time.

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                                  Shamrock Sean, 16 Nov 2025But Oppo and One Plus managed itOppo and OnePlus can always back on BBK for money as their parrent company, so they can cover those fees without feeling them much. I would asume huge companies like Xiaomi and Samsung can do same. On the other hand, Vivo, and especialy Honor, lack size and back to pay extra fees that easy, and consequence is either lower proffit margin for them, or spike in phone price, and neither is good, so they reduce capacity instead.

                                    Anonymous, 16 Nov 2025here's some copy/pasta explaining why (not gonna go de... moreBut Oppo and One Plus managed it

                                      Inedian, 15 Nov 2025I would like vivo x300 Ultra to go with 18mm, 35mm and 85mm.Nubia has that covered, I like Vivo going wider on the UW and hope they go even longer on the tele, a 100mm with their quality would be welcome.

                                        AI processing on the telephoto is horrific. Is there any flagship that doesn't turn to watercolors at 1:1 zoom?

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