{"id":338266,"date":"2026-03-20T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:18:22","slug":"honor-magic9-to-pack-a-camera-punch-in-a-small-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/338266\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Magic9 to pack a camera punch in a small package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the prolific Chinese leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo, Honor is currently working on a new smartphone with a 6.36-inch flat screen and an 8,000 mAh battery. This may in fact be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/honor_magic9_to_sport_a_bigger_battery_than_the_oneplus_15t_while_being_a_similar_size-news-71905.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic9<\/a> the same source talked about earlier this month, or a different handset altogether, it&#8217;s still unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, let&#8217;s call it the Magic9 for now. It will allegedly have a 200MP main camera, using a 1\/1.28-inch type sensor, a 50MP ultrawide, and a 64MP periscope telephoto camera using a 1\/2-inch type sensor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Honor Magic8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773965902_373_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHonor Magic8<\/p>\n<p>The phone won&#8217;t have 3D face recognition, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/honor_magic8_5g-14232.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Magic8<\/a> lacks as well. That said, the Magic9 is likely to sport the biggest battery of any device of a similar size, dwarfing even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/oneplus_15t_5g-14385.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OnePlus 15T<\/a>, which is launching next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/6048569942\/QwDkW5yGm?from=feed#comment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a> (in Chinese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the prolific Chinese leaker who goes by Digital Chat Station on Weibo, Honor is currently working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-338266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}