Speaking of 200 MP camera on a phone… Honor is also following up with a successor to its 200 MP sensor-equipped Magic7. That’s right. This year’s Magic came earlier. It was revealed a couple of days after Vivo’s X300 Series and a day before Oppo’s Find X9 Series debuted. While clearly imaging is a big selling point for the new Magic8 Series, Honor is also highlighting its AI assistant YOYO, which is hell bent on making search engines obsolete. YOYO is an AI imbued agent that functions much like Alexa and then some.
The Magic8 Series arrives in two models: the standard Magic8 [CH] and the beefier Magic8 Pro [CH]. Both share the same design language with slim bezels, durable IP68/69 protection, and Honor’s MagicOS 10, but the Pro flexes some serious extras (Obviously. Duh!). The headline act is the 200 MP Super Night Telephoto camera, a zoom monster with a large 1/1.4-inch sensor, wide f/2.6 aperture, and industry-first CIPA 5.5-grade image stabilization.
While Oppo and Vivo may brag about their telephoto tricks, Honor has tilted the game with a system that delivers sharper long-distance shots even in low light. Pair that with Magic Color, an AI-driven engine that mimics professional film tones and filters with frightening ease, and you have a phone that threatens to make photo editing apps feel redundant.
Inside, both models run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which features the first-ever GPU-NPU hybrid for AI super-resolution and frame generation. Translation: smoother gaming at up to 120 fps even when the original title wasn’t built for it. The Pro again takes the crown here with a massive 7,200 mAh silicon-carbon battery that juices up with 120W wired charging or 80W wireless. The standard Magic8 trims down capacity but still easily keeps pace with most flagships.
And then there’s YOYO. Honor is betting big on this AI assistant, giving it its own physical button. Press to summon, and YOYO can do everything from auto-sorting your blurry screenshots to summarizing your expenses for the week. It even builds a private “YOYO Memories” vault with local analysis for privacy. Whether this replaces search engines remains to be seen, but it does mean your phone may finally feel more like a personal butler than a slab of glass and silicon.
The Honor Magic8 Series is available in Sunrise Gold, Sky Cyan, Black, and Glacier White. It starts at 4,499 yuan [CH] for the base model and 5,699 yuan [CH] for the Pro in China, with global availability promised later this year.
Images: Honor [CH].
