Honor Magic 6 Pro Review
The Honor Magic 6 Pro sets itself apart from today’s iPhones with a truly unique look and a quad-curved front panel, bucking the industry trend toward flat screens. While brands like Xiaomi, Google, and Samsung are flattening both faces of their flagships, Honor doubles down on curves—and delivers an impressive camera system to back it up. Here’s what I love about this phone and where it falls short.
Price and Availability
The Honor Magic 6 Pro is priced at Rs. 89, 999 for the 12GB and 512GB and available on Amazon India. It is the only model available in India. There are bank discounts and other offers available.
Design
Honor offers the Magic 6 Pro in two finishes: Epic Green, which features a vegan-leather back and polished, gold-tinted edges, or matte Black with satin sides. Both variants flow seamlessly into a quad-curve display.
Although the pill-shaped front camera might look like Apple’s Dynamic Island, Honor actually pioneered this layout on its Magic 4 Pro and Magic 5 Pro models—only now it’s cantered. The handset is sizable and hefty at 229 g and 8.9 mm thick, a necessary trade-off for its massive battery.
Along the frame you’ll find top- and bottom-firing speakers, a USB-C port, a dual-SIM tray plus eSIM support, and even an IR blaster for TV control. The rear camera module sits in a squared-off island, with flowing jade accents on the green model. Both colourways feel premium and well-balanced, though your preference will boil down to personal taste.
- Display: 6.8″ OLED (FHD+)
- Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
- Memory: 16GB RAM, 1TB Storage
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Display
The 6.8-inch AMOLED screen curves over all four edges, making swipe-in gestures from any side feel fluid. With an approximate 20:9 aspect ratio, the panel delivers an expansive viewing area, though the central camera cutout does eat into some content.
In HDR mode, peak brightness soars to a staggering 5000 nits—fantastic for bright highlights but jarring in dim environments. Outdoors, it still reaches up to 1600 nits for excellent sunlight visibility. Honor includes extensive eye-care and colour-calibration settings so you can dial the display down or punch it up to your liking.
Rear Camera System
The Magic 6 Pro offers three high-resolution shooters: a 50 MP main, a 50 MP ultra-wide, and a 180 MP telephoto periscope. Unlike many flagships that use a 25 mm field of view, the main camera sits at 27 mm for a slightly tighter look, while the periscope provides 2.5× optical zoom (equivalent to about 68 mm on other phones).
The ultra-wide module adds autofocus, and the main lens features a variable aperture (f/1.6–f/2.0) that switches automatically or can be locked in Pro mode. That adaptability helps balance highlights and shadows, especially when shooting video.
Beyond standard zoom, Honor’s processing engine intelligently sharpens details up to around 8–10×, making digital crops appear surprisingly clean. Pushing past that yields more painterly results as the software smooths noise and redraws textures.
In low-light, the large periscope sensor (around 1/1.4″) captures good static shots with minimal noise, though moving subjects may blur faster than on phones with 1″ sensors. Overall, this mix of focal lengths and computational tuning makes the Magic 6 Pro exceptionally versatile for still photography.
Selfie Camera
The front camera uses a 50 MP sensor with autofocus and a Time-of-Flight module. While the AF can lag slightly if you snap too quickly, it delivers sharp detail and natural background separation when you pause briefly.
That same depth-sensing setup powers robust facial unlock and even lets you authorize banking apps securely. Video recording tops out at 4K/60 fps with reliable stabilization—no 8K here, but footage remains smooth and clear.
Altogether, the Magic 6 Pro stands out as a top-tier camera phone. Honor’s colour tuning may favour brighter exposures, but it often outperforms many Xiaomi, Samsung, and Apple competitors in delivering well-balanced, versatile images.
Magic OS 8 UI
Honor’s Magic OS 8 finally breaks away from Huawei’s old skin, offering deeper home-screen customization. You can drag any app icon outward to expand it into a mini-widget, adding extra shortcuts or controls in one step. After reviewing countless phones that all look the same, I was able to craft a truly personalized layout on the Magic 6 Pro.
The interface even borrows a Dynamic Island–style pill from the iPhone, floating around the front-camera cutout to host media controls, timers, and other quick actions. It’s the only part of the UI that feels iPhone-inspired—and it actually works smoothly.
Performance
Under the hood sits Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 paired with 12 GB of RAM. Early software builds had a handful of UI hiccups, but routine updates swept them away, leaving a consistently responsive experience. Multitasking is rock solid—you can download large games like Genshin Impact in the background without fear of force-closes.
In benchmarked gameplay, the phone throttled slightly after 5–10 minutes of maximum load, but frame rates remained stable and surface temperatures never became uncomfortable. Overall, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 delivers impressive, all-around performance.
Battery
The Magic 6 Pro packs a 5600 mAh cell, easily matching the OnePlus 12 for two-day endurance under moderate use. You can stream, game, and browse without anxiety, knowing you’ll still have charge when you wake up.
When you do need a top-up, 80W wired and 66W wireless speeds refill the huge battery quickly. Note, however, that the phone ships without a charger or case—and fast charging requires Honor’s own power brick rather than a universal Power Delivery adapter. A move to standardized charging would make life simpler.
Final Thought
All told, the Honor Magic 6 Pro stands out in a crowded market with its distinctive design and versatile camera system. While not flawless, its strengths—unique UI tricks, blistering performance, marathon battery life, and robust build—make it a compelling choice. If it were mine, I’d pick the black finish, slap on a protective case, and enjoy the IP68 durability plus 512GB of storage for years to come.
