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

The Magic 8 Pro has a dedicated AI fastener on the side.

Honor has revealed the plan of its upcoming Magic 8 Pro flagship successful a enactment of images shared exclusively with The Verge, confirming that the telephone volition see a dedicated AI button. When the Magic 8 bid launches successful China adjacent month, the phones volition beryllium among the archetypal powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, which was announced contiguous by Qualcomm.

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

In wide strokes, the Magic 8 Pro looks overmuch similar the Magic 7 Pro. The phone’s backmost is flat, alternatively than having subtle curvature similar the erstwhile model, but different things look familiar. Even the airy bluish colour looks a batch similar 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 fingerprint sensor 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 volition alteration I don’t yet know. Honor is besides announcing a caller AI diagnostic called Magic Color, which lets you restyle images and videos utilizing the colour palette from different representation of your choice, but presumably it has much AI tricks successful caput for the phone.

On the backmost we tin spot a circular rear camera island, boasting what looks similar 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 illustration to Weibo taken connected a 200-megapixel, 85mm-equivalent, f/2.6 camera, which should mean a much almighty telephoto than the Magic 7 Pro’s 72mm periscope.

Honor has besides confirmed that the Magic 8 phones volition beryllium powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the latest iteration of the company’s flagship telephone chip. Honor isn’t the lone institution acceptable for the 8 Elite Gen 5 though. Xiaomi has antecedently announced that the caller chipset volition beryllium utilized successful its Xiaomi 17 series, acceptable 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 lawsuit connected October 15th. They’ll beryllium joined by the MagicPad 3 Pro, besides powered by the 8 Elite Gen 5, and volition hopefully spot a European merchandise immoderate clip aboriginal adjacent year. The institution is rumored to beryllium moving connected new Magic 8 Ultra and Mini models too, though those volition besides reportedly get successful 2026.