{"id":305820,"date":"2025-12-08T22:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305820\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:23:16","slug":"honor-magic8-lite-review-design-build-quality-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/305820\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Magic8 Lite review: Design, build quality, handling"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\tGSMArena Team,
\n\t8 December 2025. \n<\/p>\n


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\n1. Introduction, specs, unboxing2. Design, build quality, handling3. Our lab tests – display, battery life, charging speed, speakers4. Software, performance5. Camera, photo and video quality6. Final words, our verdict, pros and consHonor Magic8 Lite specificationUser opinions and reviewsReview comments (2) \n<\/p>\n

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Design, build quality, handling<\/p>\n

The Honor Magic8 Lite looks a lot like the previous iterations of the model. But there is one notable improvement – its durability. The phone is now IP68\/IP69-rated for dust, water, and pressurized water jets resistance. Its drop resistance is better, too, rated now at 2.5m height.<\/p>\n

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The Magic8 Lite has a pretty straightforward build with flat panels and a flat frame. It has a sort of signature camera housing – oversized, but recognizable for being Honor’s.<\/p>\n

The screen is protected by an aluminosilicate glass, while the frame and the back panel are made of plastic with a matte finish, with this particular frosted feel. While the frosted layer makes for a cool feeling while handling the phone, it also makes it slippery and prone to smudges that are quite tough to clean.<\/p>\n

\"Honor<\/p>\n

Yes, we do appreciate the durability upgrades and the signature design, but a more secure grip would have been nice, too.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a closer look at the phone now.<\/p>\n

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The 6.79-inch AMOLED screen is at the front, surrounded by an incredibly thin bezel. There is a small punch-hole for the 16MP selfie camera.<\/p>\n

The earpiece is above the screen, and together with a top-facing secondary sound outlet, it makes for a stereo speaker, too.<\/p>\n

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Also at the front, hidden behind the screen, is the optical fingerprint scanner. It works incredibly fast.<\/p>\n

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The huge round camera housing is at the back. It contains the 108MP primary and the 5MP ultrawide cameras, plus the LED flash. Everything else is there for aesthetic reasons.<\/p>\n

The whole camera island is surrounded by a silver plastic ring that looks like a cog wheel.<\/p>\n

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We already mentioned the top stereo speaker and its second outlet at the top of the frame. You can also spot a microphone nearby.<\/p>\n

The bottom has the other stereo speaker, the primary microphone, the USB-C port, and the dual-SIM tray.<\/p>\n

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Finally, the volume and power\/lock keys are on the right side of the Magic8 Lite.<\/p>\n

The Magic8 Lite measures 161.9 x 76.1 x 7.8 mm and weighs 193 grams, in line with phones of a similar size and build.<\/p>\n

We liked the Magic8 Lite a lot; it’s a solid phone of reasonable size and weight. It’s just a bit of a slippery one, and we had a hard time cleaning it of all those fingerprints on its otherwise cool, frosty finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GSMArena Team, 8 December 2025. 1. Introduction, specs, unboxing2. Design, build quality, handling3. Our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-305820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}