What you need to know
- HONOR has officially launched the Magic 8 Pro in the UK with a heavy focus on AI-powered photography.
- Night photography is the main selling point for UK buyers: the 200MP AI SuperNight telephoto camera is designed to deliver cleaner, sharper low-light zoom shots.
- The Magic 8 Pro is available in Sunrise Gold, Sky Cyan, and Black for £1,100, with wide carrier and retailer support.
Night photography on smartphones usually means choosing between a bright, noisy photo or a blurry, over-processed one. Honor wants to change that with the UK launch of the Magic 8 Pro.
The highlight is a new 200MP AI SuperNight telephoto camera. Honor combines a 1/1.4-inch sensor, f/2.6 aperture, OIS, and 3.7x optical zoom, so you get more light, clearer details, and sharper zoom shots even in tough conditions.
There’s also a 50MP main camera with OIS and a 50MP ultra-wide lens with macro support.
Honor’s upgraded AiMAGE Camera System is the technical highlight. The company says its AI adaptive stabilization makes it seven times easier to get stable zoom shots without a tripod, with a CIPA 5.5 stability rating. In simple terms, handheld night zoom shots should finally look good instead of blurry.
Color science is another area where the company is pushing hard. The new Magic Colour engine uses deep learning to process 16.77 million colors, applying device-to-cloud color migration so what you see in preview actually matches the final shot.
After you take a photo, Honor's AI Photos Agent steps in. It offers one-tap tools like AI Eraser, AI Outpainting, AI Cutout, and AI Colour to make editing faster and easier.
Dedicated AI button for the camera
There’s a dedicated AI Button, separate from the power key, that opens the camera instantly with a double press, even if the screen is locked. If you hold it down, you get quick access to AI features like screen suggestions or photo tools.
Beyond the camera, the Magic 8 Pro combines Honor's on-device AI with Google Gemini for cloud-based features. This setup enables things like contextual screen understanding, live translation, and advanced Gemini tools such as Veo 3 and Connected Apps. MagicOS 10 also manages smarter system controls, AI deepfake and voice-clone detection, and quick-access tools through the Magic Sidebar.
For performance, the phone uses the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and includes advanced gaming technology. Honor's GPU-NPU AI upscaling can boost some games to 120fps at 1080p, even if they start at lower settings. With a 6,270mAh silicon-carbon battery, 100W wired charging, and 80W wireless charging, battery life should not be an issue.
The phone sports a 6.71-inch LTPO OLED display with a 1 to 120Hz refresh rate and eye-care features like 4320Hz PWM dimming. Peak HDR brightness is 6,000 nits, and the average brightness is 1,800 nits.
The Magic 8 Pro is now available in Sunrise Gold, Sky Cyan, and Black for £1,100, with support from many UK carriers and retailers. The Magic 8 Lite is also on sale in Forest Green, Midnight Black, and Reddish Brown for £400.
