Honor’s Magic 6 Pro was a phone that arrived a few months ago with quite some fanfare, being an option that packs in a shedload of beefy hardware into a sleek design that may well make it one of the best Android phones available – hell, even one of the best phones you can purchase full stop. It’s a handset I wanted to get my hands on since I first saw it unveiled and luckily, here we are.
The Magic 6 Pro packs in some excellent specs including the latest mobile Snapdragon SoC with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, as well as 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage in my sample. You also get a triple camera setup with a 50MP main sensor, a 180MP periscope telephoto and a 50MP ultrawide, while the display is a beefy 6.8-inch LTPO OLED with support for a 120Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision, and a peak HDR brightness of 5000 nits, and there’s also a larger 5600mAh battery for your troubles, too.
At a £1100 RRP (though currently discounted to £730), it sits at the level of a modern flagship, though undercuts the competition in terms of beating off Samsung’s S24 Ultra and Sony’s new Xperia 1 VI, making it somewhat good value for money – well, as much as a flagship smartphone can be these days.
Design
As with the foldable Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design I looked at earlier this year, the Magic 6 Pro is gorgeous. It takes everything that’s right about modern phone design and puts it together in a package that feels and looks excellent. That goes for its massive display with its slightly curved corners, as well as its smooth glass back. In the grey I’ve got here, it looks fantastic, although the phone is also available in a green or black, too.