This is an all-around flagship, but it’s not shy about aiming for first place in the smartphone camera competition. Honor’s Magic5 series got a quiet.
Honor’s Magic5 series got a quiet start with the Magic5 Lite, but the company was saving its best performance for the MWC – the new Honor Magic5 Pro is an all-round flagship that builds on last year’s design. It doesn’t follow a straight path to upgrades, however.
In fact, the phone’s designers prefer curved lines, and the phone is rounded all over. Despite the expansive 6.81″ display, the phone is on the lighter side – it weighs 219g. For comparison, a Galaxy S23 Ultra is 234g, an iPhone 14 Pro Max is 240g. If you’ve held a Magic4 Pro in your hand, you should have a rough idea of the dimensions of its successor. It weighs about the same, it’s a bit slimmer (8.8mm vs. 9.2mm) but also wider (76.7mm vs. 74.7mm).
The Honor Magic5 Pro is for people who love large phones, but it’s not excessive either (the aforementioned Galaxy and iPhone are about a millimeter wider, for example). Like last year, the phone is rated IP68 for dust and water resistance. The company did not reveal the origin of the phone’s glass panels.
The Pro model is coming in five color options: Glacier Blue, Meadow Green, Coral Purple, Orange and Black. The unit we got to handle was Glacier Blue. Note that the Purple and Orange colorways have vegan leather backs.
The display is the same size and resolution as last year – 6.81″ and 1,312 x 2,848px (19.5:9, 461ppi). And yes, it is a 10-bit LTPO panel with HDR10+ support. The refresh rate ranges from 1Hz to 120Hz. However, there are a number of improvements that improve the display’s performance and reduce the user’s eye strain.
For starters, it is much, much brighter. The new display can reach up to 1,800 nits when displaying HDR content, the highest global brightness is 1,300 nits. For comparison, the old display peaked at „just“ 1,000 nits.
