HONOR Magic 6 Pro Unboxing & Impressions - Can it Beat the S24 Ultra!?

I'll be honest there aren't many phones that get me out of my chair and jumping around like an absolute lunatic but the honor magic 6 Pro is one of them so here it is Honor's brand spanking new flagship phone for 2024 and I'm going to walk you through everything you need to know now I've partnered with honor for this video so it's not a full review but I am very grateful they sent this out a couple of weeks ahead of the launch so I've had plenty of time to use and test it because there's a lot to talk about here with this refresh design which we've got a new camera system including an incredible 180 megap zoom lens we have the latest Snapdragon 8 gen 3 chip of course we get a brighter and faster screen also potentially the longest battery life I've ever seen on a phone plus some very Nifty new AI features with the latest magic OS 8 software and did I mention the camera look at that little face he's like something out of Pixar but also just look at how crisp the shots are of a moving Target most phones with would struggle to keep this in focus and not be a blurry mess but before we dive into this camera let's talk about this design and as I now recording this I'm realizing that it's the exact same color as my jumper that wasn't planned it does actually kind of suit it honor calls it the magic capsule not a dynamic Island anyway they've moved their camera island with the selfie and the IR sensor which gives you that 3D face unlocking to the top middle of the screen from the corner and like a certain fruit-based rival in a handful of apps including YouTube and Spotify minimizing it pops up a little icon of the app or video or music you're playing we do still have these curved edges to the screen which makes it look and feel very premium and it is a very comfortable phone to hold although I know not everyone loves a curved display and there's a bit of a trend towards flat screens at the moment coming from the magic 5 Pro and you can see the little side by side here again look at that goes with my jumper and regardless of which design you prefer I can tell you this is a whole lot easier to hold it's a lot less slippery than the magic 5 Pro but you can definitely see the design inspiration uh and the sort of evolution here but which do you think looks better the 5 Pro or the 6 Pro but what really makes this stand out is this camera module which I would call a square call maybe but I don't tell me it's inspired from a cushion-shaped watch or even a Baro Diamond they've also made this screen tougher uh and I've just realized that a double press will take a screenshot there you go it's using a new nanoc Crystal Shield which I'm told is 30% tougher than the previous gen which we had on the magic 5 Pro and is a lot more drop resistant which is very nice it's still ip68 water and dust resistant so it will survive a dunk in the pool or if you drop it down the toilet for some reason no headphone jack or micro SD card support although we do get some terrific sounding stereo speakers okay check this out iPhone 15 Pro Max Galaxy S 24 Ultra magic 5 Pro and the new magic 6 Pro and if I drop the brightness down you can see that strobing on the screen this is the pulse wi modulation or the pwm and the higher the frequency the less I strain you get looking at the screen particularly at lower brightnesses so if you're like me and you like to Doom scroll before bed then this is the phone for you your eyes will thank you later probably it's also brighter the specs say this will peek a whopping 3,625 nits a good deal brighter than even the s24 ultra although that may be a peak HDR brightness on a small area of the screen like a super bright highlight because in terms of full screen brightness outdoor and playing HDR video I recorded a little over 1,800 nits honor have also added Doby Vision HDR support this year we didn't get it last year in addition to HDR 10 plus we get a 1 to 120 HZ Dynamic refresh rate and also a dynamic full HD Plus resolution so no Quad HD option here but still whatever you're watching playing or scrolling through this is a gorgeous screen now powering everything we have the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 chip along with 12 gigs of RAM and in my model uh 52 gigs of storage and if I fire up geekbench 6 we've got the magic 5 Pro versus the 6 Pro and we're looking at about a 10% boost in single core and about 33% a good third higher in multicore and actually if I then bring in it's a little bit difficult here bring in the Galaxy s24 Ultra you can actually see despite this being a custom 4 Galaxy version of the chip the performance is actually pretty similar but wait there's more because if I then show you the 3D Mark Wildlife extreme stress test results that is a big step up on the new magic 6 Pro both in the high and the low score and actually the 6 pro beats the s24 ultra not by a significant amount but it is a higher score across the board good job honor and actually gets better because if I scroll down and show you the battery it used 11% on the Samsung versus 8% on the 6 Pro and actually 9% on the 5 Pro needless to say though this is a blazing fast phone and it will run any apple game you throw at it flawlessly including War Thunder here you can see I'm maxing out that 120 FPS although like any phone turning on raate tracing does knock down that performance but to be honest phones have been fast enough for years what's actually more exciting for me is the battery because this has the biggest battery as far as I know of any non-gaming Flagship firm we've got a 5600 Mah cellon here compared to 5100 last year so a 10% bump in the battery size and it's using their new second generation silicon carbon battery design and this chemical structure of the battery is designed to give you maximum efficiency and density from the battery while still being able to you know cram it in a phone and you'll also notice this E1 chip in the specs of the phone and this is actually a dedicated chip that handles the voltage AG of the battery so it can actually be more power efficient all very boring and Technical the point is the battery on this thing is nuts and after 10 hours of non-stop YouTube The Magic 5 Pro is down to 57% the s24 ultra is on 60 versus 69% on the 6 Pro that is a massive win as I say I've been using this for a couple of weeks now and I can tell you that it's the first time I've had a phone where I've been ending up at the end of the day like around 11:00 p.m. is with 40% of my battery left my s24 ultra us around 35 my iPhone 15 Pro Max sort of 33 34 pretty similar this is shaping up to be the longest lasting phone I've ever tested I am accumulating all my Flagship phones of the year so far and very soon I'll have my full battery comparison video so make sure you have hit that subscribe button so you don't miss that but I reckon I've saved the best till last let's talk about this camera and as you can see we have three lenses with the primary 50 megap super Dynamic Falcon camera h9000 which is a bit of a mouthful but it is a massive upgrade over last year with a bigger sensor it's now one over 1.3 in it also gives us an industry first customized HDR sensor so we get much better dynamic range we get faster Focus speeds using a new much smaller actuator in the camera itself and if that wasn't enough we also have the industry's largest variable aperture so this main lens can go from f1.4 to F2 which lets it capture 22% more light than competing 1in f1.9 sensors and for portraits specifically it will switch to the f1.4 to give you better low light and that dreamy shallower depth of field we also get a 50 megapixel ultrawide camera not too much has changed there but it still does a good job but then we also have this brand new 180 megap Periscope telephoto which gives us a 2.5 times optical zoom with a 5 to 10 times in sensor zoom and up to a 100 times super resolution Zoom what's really interesting here though is this is a 1 over 1.49 in sensor it's the industry's biggest telephoto sensor and also just f2.6 which gives it around four times more light intake than both the s24 ultra and the iPhone's five times Optical now to be fair this is a 2.5 rather than a five times optical zoom but I think honor have made a really smart choice with this because for me 2.5 times is that perfect level of Zoom especially for portraits and because it is such a high resolution instead of pixel binning they can crop into that sensor and you're still getting a great quality five times 10 times and Beyond [Music] Zoom I also noticed that on the magic 5 Pro if you're filming at 4K 60 it would cut you off at 15 minutes that limit has now gone video itself hasn't changed significantly but they are using new smarter algorithms and harnessing some of the AI features of that 8 gen 3 chip to improve the video but I reckon the best bit or at least the most fun bit is Honor's AI motion sensing 2.0 it's been significantly improved this year with 3,000 more data Samples used to actually train the algorithm and it's optimized for more than 10 different scenes and sports and all you do is tap on this little chap at the bottom left it will turn on motion sensing capture and at the top left you can turn on autoc capture mode so you don't have to think about it and then when the camera detects movement it will automatically take a photo and then give you the best shot and the magic if you will here is that the algorithm and the shutter speed and the camera Hardware itself all work together to give you some of the sharpest most crisp action shots you've ever seen to be fair it doesn't always capture exactly what you'd want sometimes it show me the in between action shots it also doesn't seem to want to pick up skateboarding I even dragged my wife outside to go back and forth I could still obviously take a manual photo but honor tells me that skateboarding doesn't activate the AI motion sensing algorithm it hasn't been trained on it at least not yet but here's a list of what is currently supported and hopefully we'll see even more in the future although to give you an idea here are some examples honor of taken of fencing and whether you're taking pictures while playing a sport or of your fast moving pets or your kids having minimal shutter lag and being able to take fast sharp photos of moving targets is a great feature so it's a genuinely very impressive camera system and I do really enjoy having play around with motion sensing capture my criticisms I suppose are that some of the sharts do appear a bit oversaturated a little bit too Vivid and I have also had a couple of examples uh of the portrait mode not quite doing its job you can see here it's picked up this guy in the background there's a couple of examples of that perhaps a little bit of work to do there although again this is a pre-release phone and actually there have been a couple of significant updates while I've been testing it so we might see more at launch in fact we will see more at launch because honor are offering a bunch of new AI features one of them being if I go into a video this one's actually already been done you can see AI instant movie there and then give you a cool highlight edit of your video that is a new feature for the 6 pro magic OS 8 the software this phone is running will include their first intent based UI magic portal and it's just one aspect of the new AI features on the phone and you can take text or images locations slide it to the edge of the screen and then you'll get a bunch of contextual app options so you could open a photo in eBay to search for it or if you've taken a picture of the helicopter with the zoom lens you can drag over to Google for an image search or take an address straight over to Google Maps or grab a bunch of text and add it to your notes they're all just little time-saving helpful tools and also with magic OS and honor share you'll actually be able to use your phone as a webcam with a laptops and transfer files and I actually had a quick demo of this at the Snapdragon Summit in November but it is good to see honor embracing Ai and making the phone just feel smarter and also give you new ways of actually interacting with the phone and with more features being added at launch which I can't wait to show you I am excited to see what honor human Centric as they call it Ai and software will offer so watch this space the big question though is how much and right now as I'm filming I actually don't know they haven't told me they're saving that little nugget of very important information for their launch event but for now what do you make of the honor magic 6 Pro would you be tempted to upgrade to this do you like the design let me know what you make of this in the comments below I'll also leave a link in the description if you want to check this out and if you did enjoy this video a cheeky little like And subscribe would be fantastic thank you so much for watching guys and I'll see you 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Length: 12min 34sec (754 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 25 2024