Overview
- Honor says the Magic8 phones and Magic Pad 3 Pro will run Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, announced at Snapdragon Summit 2025, with the tablet touted as the first Android slate on the new chip.
- Official images confirm a physical AI button on the Magic 8 Pro, alongside a flat back, straight sides, and a large circular rear camera island.
- MagicOS 10 adds agent-driven features such as Magic Color for image and video restyling and a new hybrid retrieval system for semantic, multimodal search.
- The “Dual‑Engine” approach pairs Low‑Bit Quantization on the Hexagon NPU to cut storage and power use with GPU–NPU Super Sampling that Honor says can boost games to 1080p at 120fps.
- Honor’s CMO shared a sample from a 200MP, 85mm‑equivalent f/2.6 periscope telephoto, and the company plans a China launch in October with global timing to be announced.