Honor launches the Magic7 Pro in Europe today, where the phone competes with flagships from Google, Oppo and Samsung. Honor calls the phone “AI-powered” and says it comes with Gemini and other tricks from Google pre-installed. The company hopes that these software features, coupled with a high-quality piece of hardware, will be enough to lure users across the continent away from the competition.
High level basics
The Magic7 Pro’s design doesn’t stray too far from last year’s Magic6 Pro. It is a high quality metal and glass plate. Honor says the 6.8-inch display is protected by NanoCrystal Shield, which it claims is 10 times more drop-resistant than normal glass. Honor doesn’t share the display’s resolution, but says it uses AI to help manage brightness, color temperature and refresh rate. Uses circular polarization to mimic sunlight and help reduce eye strain.
Like most 2025 flagship phones, the Magic7 Pro is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, which is paired with an undisclosed amount of RAM and storage. The Oryon CPU and Adreno GPU from Qualcomm ensure fast everyday performance and great graphics capabilities for high-end gaming and advanced AI functionality.
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A large 5,270 mAh battery is packed inside. Honor is sticking with a silicon-carbon battery (instead of lithium-ion) because it can be recharged quickly at a low temperature. The battery supports Honor’s proprietary SuperCharge with 100W wired and 80W wireless, which the company claims can fully recharge the battery in 33 minutes. A special Honor E2 chip helps balance power management and maintain battery health over the life of the device.
Honor ensures that the phone produces great sound with an exceptionally large sound cavity and spatial audio that works with a new bass enhancement algorithm. Expect its stereo sound to be loud and rich.
AI assisted photography
Honor has refined the Magic7 Pro’s camera components using AI processing tools and calls it the Honor AI Falcon Camera System. The result should be sharp photos and videos from the multi-camera module.
The main camera has a 50MP 1/1.3-inch sensor and an aperture of f/1.4. The telephoto camera has a high-resolution 200MP 1/1.4-inch sensor with an aperture of f/2.6. Combining optical zoom with digital cropping allows for AI Super Zoom between 30x to 100x to allow for distant captures. The wide-angle camera also has a 50 MP sensor, although Honor did not share the sensor size and aperture details.
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All cameras can benefit from Honor Image Engine AI, which combines on-device and cloud-based processing against large AI models to create the final results. Honor includes Harcourt portrait modes to give users a variety of creative tools for portraits with advanced lighting effects. Another function, HD Super Burst, enables 10 frames per second high shutter speed to help freeze action shots.
Google Baked In
In addition to shipping with the Google Gemini app pre-installed, Honor has adopted many of Google’s existing high-end AI tools for the Magic7 Pro. For example, Circle to Search is on board, although Honor refers to it as Magic Portal. With it, users can select objects on their screen for an image-based search. Honor says it can search social media, travel, productivity and shopping feeds to find the most important details.
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AI translation is available for quick two-way conversations between people who speak different languages. This feature, which is available on most current Google Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones, supports translation between 13 languages at launch. Honor Notes can generate AI-based summaries to help people quickly understand the meaning of notes or emails, and AI Minutes can quickly create bulleted summaries of meeting transcripts or training materials.
The phones come with Honor’s MagicOS 9.0 user interface, which is built on top of Android 15. Honor doesn’t say how long it will support the Magic7 Pro with software and security updates.
It costs a fine farthing
The Honor Magic7 Pro is available in Black and Moonlight Grey. It’s first available for pre-order in the UK from January 15 for £1,099.99 at Amazon, Argos, Currys, O2, Three and Vodafone. It will arrive in the Republic of Ireland unlocked starting in February, priced at €1,299.99. Honor isn’t saying if or when it will be available in the rest of Europe — or the US, though we’re not holding our breath.
Although Honor has beaten Samsung to market with the Magic7 Pro, the Korean company’s Galaxy Unpacked event is fast approaching. Scheduled for January 22, we expect to see new Galaxy S25 smartphones (and possibly more). Samsung will surely be prepared to amaze us with its flagship devices.
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About Eric Zeman
Managing Editor, Consumer Electronics
