{"id":42013,"date":"2025-09-25T04:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/42013\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T04:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T04:59:06","slug":"honors-magic-8-pro-is-getting-a-new-ai-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/42013\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor\u2019s Magic 8 Pro is getting a new AI button"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honor has revealed the design of its upcoming Magic 8 Pro flagship in a selection of images shared exclusively with The Verge, confirming that the phone will include a dedicated AI button. When the Magic 8 series launches in China next month, the phones will be among the first powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, which was announced today by Qualcomm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Magic phones are Honor\u2019s flagships, and the Pro models tend to launch first in China and then later in Europe, where they typically cost upwards of \u20ac1,000 (around $1,200) and lean on flagship chips, big batteries, and powerful cameras. From what we know so far, the Magic 8 Pro will be no exception.<\/p>\n

In broad strokes, the Magic 8 Pro looks much like the Magic 7 Pro<\/a>. The phone\u2019s back is flat, rather than having subtle curvature like the previous model, but otherwise things seem familiar. Even the light blue color looks a lot like one of last year\u2019s hues.<\/p>\n

The biggest difference is on the phone\u2019s side, where we can see an extra button in addition to the fingerprint sensor and volume rocker. Honor tells me that this is a dedicated AI button, rather than a camera control, though exactly what AI functions it will enable I don\u2019t yet know. Honor is also announcing a new AI feature called Magic Color, which lets you restyle images and videos using the color palette from another image of your choice, but presumably it has more AI tricks in mind for the phone.<\/p>\n

On the back we can see a round rear camera island, boasting what looks like four camera lenses, but is most likely three plus a ToF (time of flight) sensor for depth detection. We don\u2019t know much about those cameras, but Honor\u2019s CMO Guo Rui did share a camera sample to Weibo<\/a> taken on a 200-megapixel, 85mm-equivalent, f\/2.6 camera, which should mean a more powerful telephoto than the Magic 7 Pro\u2019s 72mm periscope.<\/p>\n

Honor has also confirmed that the Magic 8 phones will be powered by Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the latest iteration of the company\u2019s flagship phone chip. Honor isn\u2019t the only company ready for the 8 Elite Gen 5 though. Xiaomi has previously announced that the new chipset will be used in its Xiaomi 17 series<\/a>, set for a full reveal Thursday.<\/p>\n

Last year Honor announced the Magic 7 and Magic 7 Pro, eventually joined by a Lite model too, so I\u2019m expecting the company to announce two phones at its Chinese launch event on October 15th. They\u2019ll be joined by the MagicPad 3 Pro, also powered by the 8 Elite Gen 5, and will hopefully see a European release some time early next year. The company is rumored to be working on new Magic 8 Ultra and Mini models<\/a> too, though those will also reportedly arrive in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Honor has revealed the design of its upcoming Magic 8 Pro flagship in a selection of images shared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[203,61,60,202,43,981,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-42013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phones","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}