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Once the budget wing of Huawei, Honor is now its own, independent beast. And that independence has freed it to move up from the cut-price mid-range market and into selling its own full-on flagships.
This year has already seen the company release the Magic Vs, a rare global challenger to Samsung’s foldable dominance, but the Magic5 Pro is a little more traditional: a big slab of glass with some very powerful cameras.
But just how powerful are they – and is there enough on offer here to tempt buyers away from the likes of Samsung, Google and Apple?
DESIGN
The Magic5 Pro fits comfortably into modern flagship phone design trends: a huge slab of curved glass and metal with an outlandishly large, round camera module on the back.
The 6.81in screen is most of why the phone is so large, and at 219g it’s pretty heavy too. In fairness to Honor it’s only 8.8mm thick though, making it more slender than the other large slabs out there, and a little more comfortable to hold as a result.
The cameras are the most striking element – on both sides. On the front, Honor remains the rare company to include a depth sensor alongside the selfie camera, creating an iPhoneesque pill-shaped cut-out, though here it’s tucked into the corner rather than front and centre.
Then on the back you’ll find an enormous circularcamera dominated by its three lenses, which the main body slightly slopes up to join. This is especially striking on the green model, where the black lenses jump out from the body in a distinctive triangle. It’s not subtle, but it’s clearly not trying to be – this is a phone that wants some attention.
