Honor noticed heady features in 2024 on the again of the Magic 6 Professional and Magic V3, and the model exhibits no indicators of slowing down this 12 months. After making its debut in China on the finish of final 12 months, the Magic 7 Professional is now making its technique to international markets, and there is a lot to love with the machine. Honor is doubling down on AI integration, rolling out a slate of latest options that rework how you utilize the telephone.
There is a new design as properly, the newest Qualcomm {hardware}, a third-gen silicon-carbon battery, and upgraded cameras — together with a 200MP telephoto lens on the again. The software program has gotten a contemporary coat of paint as properly, with the telephone operating MagicOS 9.0 based mostly on Android 15.
With different Chinese language manufacturers elevating the bar for imaging due to the Vivo X200 Professional and Discover X8 Professional, I wished to see how Honor measures up. I used the Magic 7 Professional as my every day driver for simply over two weeks, and this is why I feel it is among the finest telephones of 2025.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Pricing and availability
Honor unveiled the Magic 7 Professional in China on October 30, and the telephone made its international debut at an occasion in Slovenia on January 15, 2025. It’s now on sale in international markets in a single 12GB/512GB variant, which prices £1,099 ($1,343) within the U.Okay. and €1,299 ($1,336) in different nations in Europe.
Honor is incentivizing the launch within the U.Okay. by offering a £200 ($244) low cost and the 100W charger (which is not bundled this time), and rolling out a one-time substitute inside 180 days. That is extremely attention-grabbing, and much like what OnePlus did with the OnePlus 13 in India. Primarily, when you discover any {hardware} points inside six months of use, you will be eligible to get a brand new Magic 7 Professional as an alternative of sending it in for service.
| Class | Honor Magic 7 Professional |
|---|---|
| OS | MagicOS 9.0 based mostly on Android 15, 5 Android OS updates and 6 years of safety updates |
| Show | 6.8-inch LTPO 120Hz OLED, 2800×1200, Dolby Imaginative and prescient, 4230Hz PWM dimming, 1600 nits HBM, 5000 nits max, NanoCrystal Defend |
| Chipset | Snapdragon 8 Elite, Adreno 830, 3nm |
| RAM | 12GB LPDDR5X |
| Storage | 512GB UFS 4.0 |
| Rear digital camera 1 | 50MP f/1.4 – f/2.0 most important digital camera, 1/1.3-inch sensor, OIS |
| Rear digital camera 2 | 200MP f/2.6 telephoto, 1/1.4-inch sensor, 3x optical zoom, OIS |
| Rear digital camera 3 | 50MP f/2.0 wide-angle, 1/2.88-inch sensor |
| Entrance cameras | 50MP + 3D module |
| Ingress safety | IP68 and IP69 mud and water resistance |
| Connectivity | Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, AptX HD, NFC, dual-band GPS, USB-C 3.2 |
| Safety | Ultrasonic fingerprint, safe face unlock |
| Audio | USB-C, stereo sound |
| Battery | 5270mAh third-gen silicon-carbon battery, 100W charging, 80W wi-fi charging |
| Dimensions | 162.7 x 77.1 x 8.8mm, 223g |
| Colours | Lunar Shadow Gray, Breeze Blue, Black |
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Design
Like each different telephone I used not too long ago, the Magic 7 Professional has a design with flat sides. It is clear that every one producers are gravitating towards this design aesthetic, and I can see the rationale why; not having dual-curved edges means the glass panes are much less susceptible to breakage within the case of a tumble.
Though the perimeters are thicker, using beveled edges make holding and utilizing the telephone comfy. That is in step with what OnePlus did on the OnePlus 13, and the Magic 7 Professional has an analogous in-hand really feel. Weight distribution is nice as properly, and although you get an enormous digital camera island on the again, the machine does not really feel unwieldy within the least.
I just like the adjustments to the digital camera island as properly; the module is inlaid with metallic and has a squircle design, and it seems cleaner than final 12 months. The way in which the island merges seamlessly into the again is paying homage to the Discover X5 Professional, and the general impact is elegant.
The Magic 7 Professional is on the market in blue, black, and Lunar Shadow Gray shade variants, and the latter choice is probably the most attention-grabbing of the lot. I received the black mannequin, and it is not wherever as attention-grabbing — when you’re eyeing the machine, I might suggesting choosing up the gray mannequin.
The again does not draw an excessive amount of consideration to itself (at the least on this colorway), and also you get a silky texture that ensures smudges do not present up. There’s satisfactory width on the perimeters to carry the machine comfortably, and the ability button has a pink accent that provides it slightly little bit of character.
One other optimistic is the ultrasonic sensor; it’s situated within the perfect place, and is quick to authenticate. Honor is an outlier amongst Android producers in that it makes use of a secondary digital camera on the entrance, and that is used to allow 3D face unlock. Whereas all Android telephones have an analogous function, they are not as safe as biometrics; fortunately, that is not a difficulty on the Magic 7 Professional, and also you get two safe strategies to unlock the machine.
Just like different Chinese language telephones, the Magic 7 Professional will get IP68 and IP69 ingress safety, and it will possibly face up to immersion in as much as 1.5 meters of water along with excessive strain water jets and sizzling liquids as much as 80 levels Celsius. If something, the one quibble I’ve with the design is that the machine is heavy at 223g — the identical because the X200 Professional. Nonetheless, you get a smaller 5270mAh battery (X200 Professional has 6000mAh), and the telephone is chunkier at 8.8mm (versus 8.2mm).
Exterior of that, there are not any issues with the design. Along with the common mannequin, Honor is rolling out the Porsche Design variant of the machine, and just like the Magic 6 RSR, it has a hexagonal digital camera island and is on the market in two attention-grabbing colours. The remainder of the {hardware} is an identical to the common mannequin, however you get a number of distinctive UI components, and I significantly just like the Standby mode that is accessible on the machine.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Show
Honor is utilizing a similar-sized 6.8-inch AMOLED panel as final 12 months, and also you get the identical 5000-nit most brightness. That quantity is meaningless in real-world use because it’s solely restricted to pick out zones when viewing HDR content material; fortunately, the telephone holds up moderately properly even underneath harsh daylight, and it’s among the many brightest I examined — solely the Pixel 9 Professional XL received brighter in out of doors use.
Colours are vibrant and detailed, and distinction ranges are glorious as properly. The telephone goes as much as 120Hz, and like different flagships, you get dynamic refresh that scales it between 1Hz to 120Hz based mostly on the on-screen content material. The telephone has HDR integration, and there is a dynamic video mode that reinforces colours within the gallery, Instagram, and YouTube.
Like final 12 months, you get 4320Hz PWM dimming, and whereas different producers are actually doing the identical on their units, Honor leads the best way in the case of eye-care tech on its telephones. The Magic 7 Professional will get a set of options on this regard, together with myopic defocus stimulation, round polarization, and pure tone. Briefly, the Magic 7 Professional has sufficient novel show tech that when you’re apprehensive about eye fatigue or pressure, that is clearly the machine to get.
Whereas all of these options are nice, what I like probably the most is that there is a devoted book mode that switches the panel to monochrome. I used this function extensively in legacy OxygenOS and MIUI builds, nevertheless it’s not accessible in current variations of the skins, so it is nice to see Honor providing the function.
I had no points with the Magic 7 Professional in the case of enjoying movies or gaming, and the telephone has excellent built-in stereo sound. Honor says it elevated the sound cavity this time to create a way of depth, and that is noticeable in every day use.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Efficiency
Honor went with Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Elite, and the worldwide mannequin is bought in a 12GB/512GB configuration. Ideally, Honor ought to have introduced the 16GB/512GB version exterior China, however that is not the case. Regardless, I did not see any points with reminiscence being the bottleneck within the two weeks I used the machine.
Just like different flagships I examined not too long ago, the telephone completely flies in common use, and there are not any slowdowns in any way. The telephone handles demanding video games with out breaking a sweat, and if something, there is a sense that we want higher video games on Android to take full benefit of the ability accessible this technology.
| Class | Honor Magic 7 Professional | Vivo X200 Professional |
|---|---|---|
| PCMark Work 3.0 (Total) | 21008 | 15731 |
| PCMark Work 3.0 (Net Searching) | 24889 | 13716 |
| PCMark Work 3.0 (Video Enhancing) | 8072 | 5823 |
| PCMark Work 3.0 (Writing) | 27504 | 24744 |
| PCMark Work 3.0 (Photograph Enhancing) | 40642 | 13582 |
| Geekbench 6 (single-core) | 2965 | 2381 |
| Geekbench 6 (multi-core) | 6342 | 7175 |
| Geekbench AI (Quantized Rating) | 2115 | 2436 |
| 3DMark Wild Life Excessive (rating) | 6391 | 6070 |
| 3DMark Wild Life Excessive (FPS) | 38.27 | 36.35 |
| 3DMark Photo voltaic Bay (rating) | 11298 | 11021 |
| 3DMark Photo voltaic Bay (FPS) | 42.96 | 41.91 |
The one problem on this space is that the machine will get noticeably hotter than its rivals throughout prolonged gaming classes. I noticed the telephone go as much as 48 levels Celsius, 4 levels hotter than the X200 Professional. The upside is that the Magic 7 Professional posted the very best scores of any machine I examined.
Whereas most manufacturers prioritize thermal administration, Honor has the next threshold on this space, with little to no throttling till the machine will get sizzling sufficient that you just will not be capable to maintain it comfortably anyway. Exterior of that, there are not any issues with the {hardware}.
Name and mobile connectivity is nice, and also you get an AI privateness mode and ambient noise discount whereas making calls. The vibration motor is first rate sufficient as properly, and whereas you do not get suggestions whereas navigating the interface — a long-standing problem in MagicOS — you possibly can arrange Gboard to make use of the haptic motor, and it really works properly.
Coming to connectivity, you get the standard Wi-Fi 7 modem and Bluetooth 5.4, together with NFC, dual-band GPS, AptX HD, and USB-C over the USB 3.2 customary with DisplayPort 1.2. You may simply join the machine to an exterior monitor, and it holds up properly on this scenario.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Battery life
Honor has been utilizing silicon-carbon batteries on its telephones for over two years now, and the Magic 7 Professional sees the debut of the third-gen silicon tech. The fabric used within the anode of the battery is made by Group14, and Honor went with a single-cell design.
Annoyingly, the worldwide mannequin of the Magic 7 Professional has a smaller 5270mAh battery, whereas the Chinese language variant has a 5850mAh battery. I nonetheless received a day’s value of use constantly even with heavy use, and did not have to fret in regards to the battery operating out earlier than the tip of the day. With medium use, the telephone manages to final a day and a half, however battery life is not as nice because the X200 Professional and Discover X8 Professional.
You get 100W charging, and whereas that is nice to see, Honor is not bundling a charger this time. Whereas Apple, Samsung, and Google do not embrace a charger on their telephones, their units nonetheless use outdated charging tech, and any fundamental USB PD charger can be greater than satisfactory. That is not the case on Chinese language telephones, so to not embrace a charger is an egregious omission.
The telephone has 80W wi-fi charging as properly, however I wasn’t capable of try it out as I haven’t got a requisite charger. Anyway, it takes just below 50 minutes to cost the battery utilizing Honor’s 100W charger, and you should use a USB PD charger with the telephone as properly, which can decrease the charging velocity to 60W.
Honor has the standard battery modes that help you set a charging restrict, and optimize charging when you have got the telephone plugged in in a single day. Whereas the battery life is nice in its personal proper, the dearth of a bundled charger is irksome to say the least.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Cameras
Honor is utilizing a 50MP Tremendous Dynamic Falcon Primary Digicam on the Magic 7 Professional, and as you possibly can think about, it does a fairly nice job in difficult conditions. Probably the most notable inclusion is a 200MP telephoto lens, and it does a powerful job. Honor is not utilizing Samsung’s newest HP9 imaging module just like the Vivo X100 Extremely and X200 Professional — as an alternative leveraging the HP3 sensor — however you get 3x optical zoom, 6x lossless zoom, and AI-assisted digital zoom going as much as 100x. There’s additionally a 50MP wide-angle lens, and a 50MP digital camera on the entrance.
Honor is debuting a brand new picture engine the place it is leaning closely on AI fashions to tweak each photograph, together with adjusting shadows and highlights. The reasoning is that you just get standout pictures in any state of affairs, and whereas it really works properly more often than not, it leads to a couple inconsistencies when taking pictures in little to no gentle.
You get the standard suite of AI-assisted object detection and version instruments, and the digital camera interface itself hasn’t modified. All cameras can shoot 4K60 video, and also you get HDR video that delivers higher colours. Just like final 12 months, you get Harcourt profiles in portrait pictures, with three choices accessible: Vibrant, Color, and Basic.
Honor is leveraging an on-device portrait library to allow AI-assisted portraits, and the model says it has over one million shadow profiles and a billion settings. Toggling the function does make a distinction, and it’s one other means Honor is popping to AI to make its cameras stand out.
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The primary digital camera takes excellent photographs in any scenario, delivering photos with nice dynamic vary and white stability. Colours aren’t overly saturated, foliage is rendered precisely, and it does a greater job than final 12 months in low-light photos and movies. There are not any points with the wide-angle lens both, and it manages to take detailed pictures in any scenario.
Among the best issues about having a telephoto lens with an enormous sensor is that it doubles up as a portrait shooter, and the Magic 7 Professional does a superb job on this scenario. It is not fairly pretty much as good as what Vivo manages on its units, nevertheless it comes mighty shut, delivering beautiful photographs at 3x and 6x.
There’s 100x zoom as properly, and like every thing else, the function is getting an infusion of AI — albeit through an OTA after January. Honor says you may get usable pictures at 100x, with the telephone utilizing a cloud-based AI mannequin to eke out extra particulars in pictures. The telephone makes use of an on-device mannequin so long as the zoom issue is underneath 30x, and it’s attention-grabbing to see how the function holds up in precise use.
Total, the Magic 7 Professional has top-of-the-line digital camera packages accessible at the moment, and whereas I nonetheless give the sting to Vivo’s X200 Professional, there is not as vast a gulf as final 12 months, and that is nice to see.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Software program
The Magic 7 Professional runs MagicOS 9.0 based mostly on Android 15, and Honor is doubling down on AI options. Whereas the UI itself is best than final 12 months, it’s in want of a visible overhaul. The notification pane wants consideration as properly, with Honor nonetheless utilizing outdated playing cards which do not allow you to broaden notifications with a pull-down gesture.
I am utilizing a pre-release model of the software program (construct 9.0.0.132), and because the construct does not have Google Play certification, it had points putting in apps I waste an inordinate period of time on (Balatro and Relay). Honor says clients could have a day-one OTA that will not have these points, and I will replace this put up as soon as that is accessible.
As for the software program itself, the largest distinction between the China mannequin and the worldwide variant is that the latter has tight Google integration; Gemini is pre-installed, and also you get Circle to Search as customary. There is not any scarcity of AI-based utilities, with the machine providing real-time translation, notes summarization, textual content extraction, and a lot extra.
Look, I am not bought on the generative AI boondoggle, however a straightforward technique to extract textual content from a PDF and paste it in a chat? I am onboard with that. That is the place Honor’s Magic Portal turns into the differentiator; whereas the function had restricted usability previously, there’s integration with companies you really use now, and it’s extremely helpful to have the ability to paste textual content, hyperlinks, and pictures once you’re looking right into a chat, or ship location particulars.
Curiously, you get the flexibility to look textual content or photos utilizing a knock gesture, and it really works moderately properly. Total, I like what Honor is doing with the interface, and although I am not utilizing the ultimate construct, I did not run into any stability points or lag.
With regards to software program updates, the Magic 7 Professional will get 5 years of Android OS updates alongside six years of safety updates. That is greater than what you get with different Chinese language producers, and is the fitting transfer by Honor.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: The competitors
With different manufacturers releasing merchandise earlier than earlier than, there’s a wide variety of choices if you would like a high-end telephone proper now. Vivo’s X200 Professional continues to ship one of the best digital camera bundle, however the telephone is not accessible within the west, as an alternative restricted to Asian nations.
The OnePlus 13 does not have any shortcomings concerning availability, and it is among the finest units you should buy in 2025. It has a stunning design, similar nice {hardware} because the Magic 7 Professional, and also you get an even bigger 6000mAh battery. The cameras are significantly better this time as properly, and coming in at $899/£899, it undercuts the Magic 7 Professional by a substantial quantity.
Honor Magic 7 Professional: Do you have to purchase it?
You can purchase this if:
- You want one of the best show tech accessible
- You need the newest {hardware}
- You want versatile cameras that take nice photographs and movies
- You are on the lookout for helpful AI tech
You should not purchase this if:
- You desire a clear UI
- You want one of the best worth
Honor did all the fitting issues with the Magic 7 Professional. The design makes the machine higher to carry and use, and it ought to have higher sturdiness as properly. The high-quality AMOLED panel mixed with all the attention safety options Honor included makes the display on the Magic 7 Professional top-of-the-line round, and there are completely no points with shade vibrancy or brightness ranges.
There’s nothing incorrect with the {hardware} both; the telephone blazes by way of demanding video games, and whereas it will get sizzling throughout prolonged gaming classes, there are not any issues with throttling. I did not have to fret in regards to the battery operating out earlier than the tip of the day, and whereas it does not final so long as the X200 Professional, it simply manages a day and a bit even with heavy use.
Then there’s the software program. Honor did an excellent job integrating AI-backed utilities into nearly each side of the interface, and so they’re really helpful. Nevertheless it’s the cameras that actually differentiate the Magic 7 Professional; the telephone takes unbelievable photographs in nearly any lighting scenario, and also you get detailed pictures even at 30x zoom and past.
Do you have to get the Magic 7 Professional over what Google and Samsung have to supply? The digital camera is best than the Pixel 9 Professional XL, you get extra versatility due to the 200MP sensor, and the general {hardware} is best as properly. If something, the largest rival to the Magic 7 Professional is the Vivo X200 Professional, however seeing as how one can’t get that machine reliably in western markets, the Magic 7 Professional has a definite benefit.
Due to excellent cameras and a set of helpful AI options, the Magic 7 Professional has what it takes to go up in opposition to one of the best Android telephones of 2025.