Honor Magic8 series launched: boasts excellent performance, amazing batteries, and something truly special
The Honor Magic8 phones have just hit shelves in China, bringing excellent performance and a robust new take on AI to your hands.
Update from December 10, 2025:
The Honor Magic 8 Pro was launched today in the Middle Eastern and African regions. The launch event, and what it might tell us about a global release, are discussed below.
The original story from October 16, 2025 follows below:
Honor Magic8 packs serious hardware
Under the hood, both phones are packing spectacular hardware. The Honor Magic8 and the Honor Magic8 Pro are powered by the latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset. While the standard model features a 6.58 inch OLED LTPO display, the Pro takes that up to 6.71 inches, and both phones can go up to 120 Hz.
What sets the Honor Magic8 series apart
The Honor Magic8 Pro. | Image credit — Honor
But what sets both phones apart? That’ll have to be the batteries, and the new approach to AI.
The Honor Magic8 has a battery capacity of 7,000 mAh, and supports 90W of wired and 80W of wireless charging. Honor Magic8 Pro, on the other hand, has a battery capacity of 7,200 mAh, with support for 120W of wired and 80W of wireless charging. Seeing as Honor has been putting out phones with large silicon batteries for recently, this doesn’t come as a surprise.
- Black
- Sky Cyan
- Sunrise Gold
- Glacier White
Honor has dubbed the phones its “AI-flagship” smartphones. The company boasts that its phones will keep learning, growing, and adapting by themselves. There is also a new Yoyo Agent, which is apparently capable of automating over 3,000 scenarios. An example that Honor gave involved asking the AI to comb through the user’s screenshots, and deleting the blurry ones.
Honor is also making a robot phone
Honor’s robot phone looking out from its user's pocket. | Image credit — Honor
The company is also working on a robot phone. Honor claims that this is the next step after simple AI-powered smartphones. This phone will grow to understand its user, and perhaps even become an “emotional companion”.
Though details are scarce, the promotional material makes it seem like the phone will be like something straight out of a Pixar film. It will always be accompanying you in everything you do, literally getting to know you better. Honor says that more details about this robot phone will be made public next year.
The Honor Magic8 starts at around $630, and the Honor Magic8 Pro starts at around $800. Honor says that a global launch is imminent for both phones.
MEA launch for the Honor Magic 8
Today — December 10, 2025 — Honor held a conference in Dubai for the MEA (Middle East and Africa) launch of the Magic 8 Pro. The phone will be available for pre-ordering across the UAE from December 11, and Honor is throwing in a pre-order bonus as well.
Consumers who pre-order the Honor Magic 8 Pro will receive an Honor Watch 5 Ultra, a three-month trial of Google AI Pro, and Honor VIP Care+ with 12 months of damage protection.
The Honor Magic 8 Pro is available in two configurations: 12 GB of RAM with 512 GB of storage, and 16 GB of RAM with 1 TB of storage. Both configurations vary ever so slightly when it comes to color choice. The first configuration (12 GB + 512 GB) is available in the following colors:
- Black
- Sunrise Gold
- Sky Cyan
Meanwhile, the second configuration (16 GB + 1 TB) is available in the following colors:
- Black
- Sunrise Gold
The pricing for the Honor Magic 8 Pro in the UAE can tell us a little of what to expect for the phone's inevitable global launch. Honor Magic 8 Pro, at least in the UAE, is priced at almost $1,100 for the 12 GB + 512 GB configuration, and at almost $1,300 for the 16 GB + 1TB configuration.
These prices are a lot higher than the previously-stated pricing during the Chinese launch. However, smartphone prices can appear inconsistent across the UAE due to import duties. A global launch will see different prices across various countries depending on whether taxes are involved or not.
Most regions, if they enact import duties on the Honor Magic 8 phones, will almost certainly have higher taxes than the UAE. So, it's safe to say that the Honor Magic 8 Pro might cost even more than $1,300 in other countries, though we can't be completely sure just yet.
But, even if it does, that's still a very reasonably-priced smartphone compared to a lot of the competition, especially considering the excellent specs you're getting.
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