7. Honor 600 Pro pre-order, pricing, and availability details<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\nThe Honor 400 Pro surprised us with its AI capabilities, and the newly announced Honor 600 Pro is taking it even further this year. If you can look past the obvious similarities to another smartphone, this device offers some nice upgrades both in the hardware and software department.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In fact, Honor is trying to bill it as an \u201caccessible flagship\u201d. We suppose this is in reference to their more expensive Magic8 Pro flagship device at S$1,499.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Not only does this new \u201cflagship\u201d run on Qualcomm\u2019s 2025 Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, but the Honor 600 Pro also comes with LPDDR5X<\/b> RAM and UFS 4.1<\/b> storage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But do these upgrades justify the new S$1,099<\/b> price? Let\u2019s find out.<\/p>\nLooks\u2026 familiar<\/h2>\n\nFlat sides, finally.<\/p>\n
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Unlike the Honor 400 Pro, Honor has decided to draw inspiration elsewhere, with a very familiar design for this phone. We\u2019ll skip debating the ethical aspect of whether such a blatant copy of a competitor\u2019s design is right or not, but we do have to admit that we like how the phone feels in the hand, thanks to the flatness of the sides, the back and screen.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also no denying that orange colourway is quite nice, even if it does make it resemble the iPhone 17 Pro series even more.<\/p>\n
Aside from that, you\u2019ll notice the ultrawide camera is in an oval-shaped housing, which does provide a bit more uniqueness.\u00a0<\/p>\n\nLarge and bright display. <\/p>\n
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The 6.57-inch AMOLED display<\/b> is nice and flat, with a refresh rate of up to 120Hz<\/b> and a max brightness of 8,000-nits<\/b>. Colours pop on this display, and the high max brightness means text is legible even under bright afternoon sunlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The AI button on the side is a nice trickle-down feature from the Magic8 Pro, and it\u2019s customisable for short press, double press and long press, so you can map three different software activations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\nIf the AI button can open the camera, why not other apps too?<\/p>\n
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Just like before, it essentially lives up to its name by mostly activating AI features or the camera. We\u2019d love for Honor to allow us to open useful third-party apps with the button.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The phone does come with IP68, IP69 and IP69K<\/b> dust and water resistance, which we would expect from a smartphone crossing the S$1,000 mark.\u00a0<\/p>\nEven more AI-generation capabilities<\/h2>\n
Running on Honor\u2019s MagicOS 10 skin of Android 16, most of the AI features on the 600 Pro are similar to last year\u2019s 400 Pro (Knuckle Circle, Deepfake call detection, Magic Portal).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Image to Video, Freestyle template<\/p>\n
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We managed to score an exclusive interview with Batman and Iron Man! Or did we? Disclaimer: AI-generated.<\/p>\n
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However, the Chinese company has dived even deeper into the AI-generation pool, with different templates and the ability to use up to three images to generate AI content with text prompts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Previously the Image to Video<\/b> feature wasn\u2019t compatible with text prompts either, but now we have the ability to customise the output in some templates.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are also new templates to play around with, whether it\u2019s simply to simulate camera movements or actually merge images and subjects together in one video. We wonder when Dr. Vijay\u2019s interview with Iron Man and Batman will be coming out.<\/p>\n