The Consumer Electronics Show 2026 has kicked off and SlashGear has had the opportunity to check out the upcoming tech. Here are the highlights from day one.
Today is the official first day of the Consumer Electronics Show, but don’t be fooled. I spent most of yesterday in planes, trains, and automobiles, scouring the city for the best tech that’s making its appearance at the show this year. This year is also bringing me a few firsts in my career as well, which is making the show more exciting than ever.
Starting off with a bang, I hopped into a helicopter and flew out to the Grand Canyon, courtesy of our friends at Honor. During the flight and the tour on the ground, I got to put Honor’s latest flagship, the Honor Magic Pro 8 through its paces. You can read more about that below.
While Honor certainly took up a lot of my day here at CES, I also got the chance to check in with some other really great brands bringing new products to the table. From past mistakes being rectified to a refresh of last year’s successes, here’s all the cool tech I saw before the show officially opened.Honor Magic Pro 8
You gotta hand it to Honor — when it goes, it goes big. At CES, it wasn’t enough to hand me an Honor Magic 8 Pro. No, they also had to put me in a helicopter and fly to the Grand Canyon to test out the camera. So I did and it’s very, very good.
That’s not surprising. Honor, to this day, still has my very favorite portrait mode, going back to the Honor 200 Pro. Meanwhile, the Honor Magic 8 Pro is the company’s latest flagship. It has been announced in China thus far, but now it’s making its way to western shores. No, not U.S. shores; don’t be silly, but everywhere else in the world will be able to buy it.
The Magic 8 Pro has all the best specs you could ask for. It has a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, 12+512GB of RAM/ROM, 7,100 mAh battery with 100W wired charging, IP69 water resistance and a quadruple camera system. This stellar camera system includes a 200-megapixel telephoto (3.7x optical zoom) camera, and 50 megapixels each for the main sensor, ultrawide (122-degree FOV) and selfie camera on the front. Put simply, this phone has all the potential to be great, and my hand on time so far has born that out.Dell brings back the XPS
Ok, so let’s get this out of the way right now — Dell made a mistake.
