It's hard to believe we're already in new flagship phone season again, but Honor isn't wasting any time getting its new Magic 8 Pro ready for its domestic China launch this month. Honor sent me a pre-production unit ahead of the launch, and my hands-on impressions are based on that model.
This one is a China model running a global version of Honor's Magic OS 10 software, which is based on Android 16. It's got the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 silicon from Qualcomm, a cutting-edge camera system, a lovely, refined build that's lighter than ever, and the most massive battery I've ever seen in a flagship phone, despite the reduction in weight.
