Honor’s Magic 8 Pro is getting a new AI button

Honor has revealed the creation of its upcoming Magic 8 Pro flagship successful a action of images shared exclusively pinch The Verge, confirming that the telephone will see a dedicated AI button. When the Magic 8 bid launches successful China adjacent month, the phones will beryllium among the first powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, which was announced coming by Qualcomm.

The Magic phones are Honor’s flagships, and the Pro models thin to motorboat first successful China and past later successful Europe, wherever they typically costs upwards of €1,000 (around $1,200) and thin connected flagship chips, large batteries, and powerful cameras. From what we cognize truthful far, the Magic 8 Pro will beryllium nary exception.

In wide strokes, the Magic 8 Pro looks overmuch for illustration the Magic 7 Pro. The phone’s backmost is flat, alternatively than having subtle curvature for illustration the erstwhile model, but different things look familiar. Even the ray bluish colour looks a batch for illustration 1 of past year’s hues.

The biggest quality is connected the phone’s side, wherever we tin spot an other fastener successful summation to the powerfulness fastener and measurement rocker. Honor tells maine that this is simply a dedicated AI button, alternatively than a camera control, though precisely what AI functions it will alteration I don’t yet know. Honor is besides announcing a caller AI characteristic called Magic Color, which lets you restyle images and videos utilizing the colour palette from different image of your choice, but presumably it has much AI tricks successful mind for the phone.

On the backmost we tin spot a information rear camera island, boasting what looks for illustration 4 camera lenses, but is astir apt 3 positive a ToF (time of flight) sensor for extent detection. We don’t cognize overmuch astir those cameras, but Honor’s CMO Guo Rui did share a camera sample to Weibo taken connected a 200-megapixel, 85mm-equivalent, f/2.6 camera, which should mean a much powerful telephoto than the Magic 7 Pro’s 72mm periscope.

Honor has besides confirmed that the Magic 8 phones will beryllium powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the latest loop of the company’s flagship telephone chip. Honor isn’t the only institution fresh for the 8 Elite Gen 5 though. Xiaomi has antecedently announced that the caller chipset will beryllium utilized successful its Xiaomi 17 series, group for a afloat uncover Thursday.

Last twelvemonth Honor announced the Magic 7 and Magic 7 Pro, yet joined by a Lite exemplary too, truthful I’m expecting the institution to denote 2 phones astatine its Chinese motorboat arena connected October 15th. They’ll beryllium joined by the MagicPad 3 Pro, besides powered by the 8 Elite Gen 5, and will hopefully spot a European merchandise immoderate clip early adjacent year. The institution is rumored to beryllium moving connected new Magic 8 Ultra and Mini models too, though those will besides reportedly get successful 2026.

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