Honor Magic 4 Pro

“The Honor Magic4 Pro is an awesome phone that's rather easy to recommend. It offers premium hardware and features sprinkled with some rare functionalities such as Ultra Wideband, high-frequency PWM backlight control, and an advanced facial unlock in combination with a great ultrasonic fingerprint reader. It also has a whole bunch of video recording and editing tools and the memory config.”

“With the Magic4 Pro, Honor tries to revisit the not-too-distant glory days by presenting us with a well-equipped high-end smartphone, which does not need to hide from its competitors. The main focus lies with the camera setup, which produces good results in our testing and also appears to have made up a lot of ground in terms of the video capturing capabilities. That being said, recording videos still is not an entirely smooth experience at the time of this article. However, we are confident that the video stuttering issue will be fixed in the next update.”

“The Honor Magic 4 Pro is an undoubtedly impressive phone, and a long overdue return to flagship form from the company. It’s difficult to fault the hardware itself, with premium performance, an excellent display, super fast charging, and a powerful camera setup. Still, with minor issues ranging from poor portrait photos to inconsistent charging, there’s a distinct lack of polish that runs through the phone – perhaps simply teething pains as Honor works back to where it once was. Factor in the lack of long term software support and there’s good reason to at least consider rivals that may not pack the same power, but make up for it elsewhere.”

“The Honor Magic 4 Pro is in a weird spot because while it pulls off some things spectacularly well, it falters in others. The cameras are good though have major autofocus issues, the battery life is good at the expense of computation, and the software is good though lacking in some features. Every positive has an associated negative, and for the money, that’s a lot of sacrifices. While I’m glad that Honor is back, there’s a lot of work that needs to go into the company’s software before I can wholeheartedly recommend this phone. It’s a shame that the smartphone landscape is the way that it is currently, as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 seems to be a key cause of a lot of the issues smartphone makers are facing currently. Given the launch of the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 though, maybe things will get better for the second half of the year.”