Honor’s Magic 7 Professional is a refined flagship Android cellphone that weaves the most recent AI options with cutting-edge {hardware}. It excels in all places that issues. You get an extremely versatile digicam, spectacular stamina, speedy charging, silky clean efficiency, and a very good show. A number of delicate however necessary enhancements over its predecessor elevate this smartphone to the following degree.
Chinese language cellphone maker Honor has impressed me with its {hardware} of late, from final 12 months’s Magic 6 Professional to the impossibly svelte Honor Magic V3. This 12 months, it has paid extra consideration to the software program with some welcome polish. Its heavy funding in AI is starting to mature, with options that really feel extra sensible within the Magic 7 Professional than in its predecessors. It is a dear flagship at £1,099 ($1,346), and sadly it’s not formally offered within the US. However UK and European consumers should not sleep on the Magic.
Refined Refinements
At first look, the Magic 7 Professional seems to be much like the 6 Professional, however I used to be delighted to discover a flatter show and body, making it way more snug to make use of and fewer vulnerable to unintended touches than curved glass. Honor has toned down the digicam module, although it’s nonetheless sufficiently big to unbalance the cellphone a bit of. Whereas this cellphone felt massive after utilizing the Pixel 9, it’s manageable to deal with. I’m not in love with the marbled impact of my Lunar Shadow Gray evaluate unit, nevertheless it’s extra attention-grabbing than the plain blue or black alternate options.
The 6.8-inch display is nearly as good as any I’ve examined. It’s brilliant, clean, and sharp. By the numbers, it has a 2,800 x 1,200-pixel decision, a variable refresh price of as much as 120 Hz, and 1,600 nits brightness (as much as 5,000 nits for highlights). Video seems to be nice on the 7 Professional, with Dolby Imaginative and prescient and HDR Vivid assist, and the audio system are good and loud with out distortion. Honor has additionally included a number of options supposed to scale back eye fatigue and pressure, however they’re powerful to quantify.
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The one slight irritation I had was with the massive selfie digicam cutout, although you quickly get used to it. It’s a compromise I can settle for for the comfort of safe face unlock—a rarity on Android telephones, because it even works with banking apps.
There’s loads of energy underneath the hood with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chip and 12 GB of RAM. As you’d count on, benchmark outcomes are on the prime, and this cellphone can run something. There’s additionally a really beneficiant 512 GB of speedy storage, which is greater than what most telephones provide at this value. The Honor Magic 7 Professional has an IP68 and IP69 score too, which means it may be submerged and deal with water jets or steam.
Delving inside, a far increased degree of polish is obvious all through. Honor talks up the AI within the Magic 7 Professional, and we’ll get into the particular options, nevertheless it permeates the cellphone. AI has seeped into the cellphone app to scale back background noise and make voices clearer, and there’s a privateness characteristic designed to stop sound leakage and thwart eavesdroppers.