Following on my evaluate of the Honor Magic5 Lite I’ve been despatched by the Honor Magic 5 Professional for evaluate.

The Honor Magic5 Professional is one other intriguing high cameraphone that has lately entered worldwide markets. Its distinctive type, first fee {hardware} bundle, and intriguing digital camera equipment will make it stand out. Moreover, it’s an ex-Huawei machine with entry to the entire Google suite and 5G networks.

Honor break up from Huawei in 2020, and since then, it has launched various handsets freed from the US penalties that had been positioned on Huawei. For these on the lookout for a smartphone with out restrictions that’s just like the Huawei P or Mate, the highest Magic vary has at all times been a incredible choice. And the brand new Magic5 Professional most precisely matches that description.

With higher digital camera specs, a brighter show, the newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 CPU, and a bigger battery, the Honor Magic5 Professional improves on the Honor Magic4 Professional (and Huawei Mate 50 Professional).

A large 6.81-inch HDR10+ OLED panel with a dynamic 120Hz refresh fee and 1312p decision is current. It boasts a promising 12MP digital camera with a 3D ToF system contained in the pill-shaped cutout, is roofed by curved glass, and is protected by that. There’s additionally an optical fingerprint scanner underneath the display screen if Face ID unlock will not be your factor.

As beforehand famous, the Magic5 Professional is supplied with the newest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. The newest LPDDR5X RAM and UFS4.0 storage chips are additionally included. Moreover, there may be the primary standalone antenna structure out there, which is alleged to get rid of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connection interference.

The rear digital camera configuration follows a well-known idea however ought to present higher efficiency. The 50MP digital camera boasts an enormous sensor in addition to a superb wide-angle stabilised lens. A 50MP ultrawide digital camera with autofocus can be obtainable for macro images. The 50MP zoom digital camera with a 3.5x periscopic telephoto lens is presumably essentially the most intriguing, for the reason that huge sensor ought to enable for as much as 10x high-quality lossless zoom. One other 3D ToF system is current. The Honor Magic5 Professional runs Android 13 with the newest EMUI-like MagicUI 7.1. It contains your complete Google infrastructure and apps, so that you don’t want to fret about something.

Specs:

• Physique: 162.9×76.7×8.8mm, 219g; Glass entrance, glass again or eco leather-based again; IP68 mud/water-resistant (as much as 1.5m for 30 min).
• Show: 6.81″ LTPO OLED, 1B colours, 120Hz, HDR10+, 1800 nits (peak), 1312x2848px decision, 19.54:9 side ratio, 460ppi.
• Chipset: Qualcomm SM8550-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4 nm): Octa-core (1×3.2 GHz Cortex-X3 & 2×2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 & 2×2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 & 3×2.0 GHz Cortex-A510); Adreno 740.
• Reminiscence: 256GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM; UFS 4.0.
• OS/Software program: Android 13, MagicOS 7.1.
• Rear digital camera: Huge (predominant): 50 MP, f/1.6, 23mm, 1/1.12″ 1.4µm, multi-directional PDAF, Laser AF, OIS; Telephoto: 50 MP, f/3.0, 90mm, PDAF, OIS, 3.5x optical zoom; Extremely vast angle: 50 MP, f/2.0, 13mm, 122˚, 1/2.5″, AF; Depth: TOF 3D.
• Entrance digital camera: Huge (predominant): 12 MP, f/2.4, 100˚, 1.22µm; Depth: TOF 3D.
• Video seize: Rear digital camera: [email protected]/60fps, [email protected]/60fps, gyro-EIS, HDR10, 10-bit video; Entrance digital camera: [email protected], [email protected]
• Battery: 5100mAh; 66W wired, 50W wi-fi, Reverse wi-fi, 5W reverse wired.
• Misc: Fingerprint reader (underneath show, optical); Infrared port; stereo audio system.

Good Factors:-

• Premium design: The Honor Magic 5 Professional has a modern and classy design that’s positive to show heads. It’s made from high-quality supplies, together with a curved glass again and a metallic body.
• Highly effective processor: The Honor Magic 5 Professional is powered by the most recent Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, which makes it one of the vital highly effective smartphones available on the market.
• Lengthy-lasting battery: The Honor Magic 5 Professional has a big 5,000mAh battery that may simply final for 2 days on a single cost.
• The Honor Magic 5 Professional has a triple-lens rear digital camera system that takes beautiful pictures in any state of affairs. The principle sensor is a 50-megapixel wide-angle lens, and there may be additionally a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and a 64-megapixel periscope telephoto lens.
• Quick charging: The Honor Magic 5 Professional helps 66W quick charging, which suggests you will get a full cost in simply 45 minutes.
• Wi-fi charging: The Honor Magic 5 Professional additionally helps 50W wi-fi charging
• IP68 water resistance: The Honor Magic 5 Professional is water-resistant to a depth of 1.5 meters for as much as half-hour, so that you don’t have to fret about utilizing it in moist situations.
• Fingerprint sensor: The Honor Magic 5 Professional has a underneath display screen fingerprint sensor of the optial varity which I discovered to quick, dependable and correct.
• Face unlock: The Honor Magic 5 Professional additionally helps face unlock, which I discovered to simply be as quick and dependable because the providing from IOS.
• Android 13: The Honor Magic 5 Professional runs Android 13, which is the most recent model of Android.
• IR Blaster ( I didnt know who a lot I missed certainly one of these helpful little additions) 
• Magic UI 7.1: The Honor Magic 5 Professional additionally has Honor’s Magic UI 6.0 pores and skin, which is a user-friendly interface that provides some additional options to Android.

Dangerous Factors:-

• Costly: The Honor Magic 5 Professional is a costly smartphone, and its a model the plenty have but to listen to of and will not wish to pay a premium for
• No headphone jack: The Honor Magic 5 Professional doesn’t have a headphone jack, so you have to to make use of wi-fi headphones or an adapter if you wish to use wired headphones.
• No expandable storage: The Honor Magic 5 Professional doesn’t have expandable storage, so you might be restricted to the quantity of storage that comes with the telephone.
• When ever you positioned the telephone face down it at all times felt like I used to be going to break the digital camera glass
• Poor GPU stability; throttles rather a lot.
• So-so zoomed movies.
• 4K movies restricted to fifteen minutes.

 

Honor Magic5 Professional Unboxing:-

The Honor Magic5 Professional is available in a regular black bundle. The retail bundle features a 66W charger, a 6A USB-A-to-C cable, and a delicate clear case.

The Magic5 Professional comes with a skinny protecting movie that was positioned on the manufacturing. I eliminated it as a result of, effectively I simply didnt like the texture of it underneath my fingers, it was of poor high quality and a smudge magnet. Nonetheless, we’re assured that many people would respect having it.

Design, building high quality, and dealing with

The Honor Magic5 Professional is a dual-glass smartphone with a curved design, just like the Magic4 Professional, with comparable options such because the pill-shaped show cutout and the round digital camera island on the again. The telephone, just like the earlier one, is IP68-rated for mud and water safety.

The worldwide model of Macig5 Professional is obtainable in Meadow Inexperienced (our color) and Black, each with glass panels on each ends. There’s additionally an orange eco leather-based again variant, however it’s only obtainable in China.

The entrance panel consists of glass and has a modest arc on either side, however the machine does really feel flat within the hand.  The again  options the identical curvatures because the entrance, however the digital camera glass is a superb showstopper right here, grabbing your entire consideration. Lastly, the aluminium body is thicker on the high and backside and narrower throughout the left and proper sides.

 

 

This matt masking on the again panel makes it really feel much less like glass and extra like plastic. That is OK, however the panel is absolutely fingerprint and smudge resistant. Nonetheless, don’t anticipate a lot of a grip. Though each time I positioned the telephone rear aspect down it at all times felt like I used to be going to break the digital camera glass.

 

 

The shiny metallic body additionally doesn’t assist with grip, nonetheless we should say that the Meadow Inexperienced Magic5 Professional appears to be like beautiful with its distinctive paintjob and matching shining body. Whereas there isn’t a lot grip (until you utilize a case), the Magic5 Professional has an attractive and recognisable look that’s pretty likeable.

The 6.81-inch OLED display screen with slim, uniform bezels dominates the entrance. The 12MP selfie digital camera and the ToF 3D expertise for face scanning are seen by a pill-shaped lower out on the higher left nook of the machine.

Though the protecting glass is curved, significantly alongside its left and proper sides, the OLED panel is flat as traditional beneath.

There’s an under-display fingerprint scanner positioned centered across the backside of the display screen. It’s fairly handy, quick, and many dependable. Simply nearly as good because the one on my newest S23 Extremely, with a pleasant function of having the ability to change the animation to certainly one of your selecting.

The safe 3D face unlock additionally works as acknowledged; as soon as arrange, it appears to be like to be a notch sooner than on the newest iPhone fashions.

 

The final merchandise you in all probability don’t see on the entrance is the earpiece – its outlet is exceedingly slim, almost undetectable – and it’s positioned above the display screen, simply earlier than the body. It’s value noting that the speaker on this location has two sound outputs, one front-facing and one top-firing.

The matt again panel is a visible feast, with a digital camera housing jutting-out with a flat glass floor enclosed by a metallic ring. The 50MP periscope zoom digital camera, the 50MP main digital camera, and the 50MP ultrawide digital camera are all seen right here. A single-LED flash, a flicker sensor, a multi-spectrum color sensor (subsequent to the flash), a microphone, and one more ToF 3D system for depth mapping and autofocus assist are additionally current.

The digital camera island is massive, and whereas the telephone won’t ever sit flat on a desk, it is not going to wobble because of its huge measurement and help. I’ve already talked about that the telephone has a further speaker grille on the high. The IR blaster and one other microphone are additionally seen right here.

 

The twin SIM tray, main microphone, USB-C port, and second speaker are all positioned on the Magic5 Professional’s backside. There’s nothing on the left aspect of this Honor. The amount and the facility/lock keys are on the best. The freestanding antenna structure, which Honour claims is an business first, is one thing you may’t see however ought to profit from. The telephone incorporates separate Bluetooth and Wi-Fi antennas positioned across the telephone to resolve mutual interference and enhance speeds and minimise latency of each sorts of connections.

Show:-

The Honour Magic5 Professional has a high-resolution 6.81-inch LTPO OLED display screen with 10-bit color depth, a 120Hz dynamic refresh fee, and HDR10+ help. The show seems to be similar to the Honour Magic4 Professional’s, with the pill-shaped cutout and curved protecting glass, though it ought to be considerably brighter. The precise decision of the OLED panel is 1312 x 2848 pixels, or 460ppi density. It incorporates a 10-bit color depth and might show greater than a billion colors.

Honour additionally upgraded the high-frequency PWM dimming expertise, growing its frequency to 2,160Hz (from 1,920Hz). This could enhance the expertise way more in low-light situations, and there ought to be no ghosting. The only noticeable enhancement over the Honour Magic4 Professional panel is the brightness, which may attain as much as 1,800 nits whereas viewing HDR materials and 1,300 nits when displaying regular content material. Compared, the earlier show had a most brightness of “simply” 1,000 nits.

 

Different distinguished options embody a Body Price Booster and Video Enhancer, each of which can be enabled or disabled for any appropriate programme (Netflix, YouTube).

The Body Price Booster does what it says: it raises the body fee of movies by injecting a black body between every one, leading to 60fps movies. MEMC (Movement Estimation, Movement Compensation) is a function current on most present televisions. We don’t take pleasure in utilising it for the reason that false black frames trigger blurring in fast-paced sequences, though it could be efficient in making sure types of video content material seem smoother.

 

The Video enhancer converts non-HDR movies to HDR ones by boosting the color and distinction, though the outcomes aren’t spectacular. Nothing compares to the precise factor.

All this implies it is a beautiful show to have a look at. 

Battery:-

The Honour Magic5 Professional has a bigger battery with a capability of 5,100mAh, up from 4,600mAh on the Magic4 Professional. The telephone has the most recent flagship Snapdragon chipset – 8 Gen 2 – which is extra highly effective and environment friendly than the 8 Gen 1 seen within the Honour Magic4 Professional. These enhancements resulted in me having the ability to use the telephone for two full days earlier than a recharge. 

On the purpose of charging the Honour Magic5 Professional has 66W quick wired charging and 50W quick wi-fi charging capabilities. This meant I used to be capable of cost from empty to full in simply 45 minutes.  Moreover, the telephone helps each reverse wired and reverse wi-fi charging (by settings).

A fast clip displaying how briskly the machine prices. 

Working System & Chipset:

Magic OS 7.1 on high of Android 13
The Honour Magic5 Professional is powered by an in-house MagicOS 7.1 working system on high of an Android 13 core. And, not like Huawei’s software program releases, that are constrained indirectly, it’s a totally working Android 13, with full help for the Google purposes suite.

 

With model v7, Honour has rebranded its Android overlay from UI to OS in an try and distance itself from its Huawei EMUI roots. Rather a lot has been shared over time between Magic OS (or UI) and EMUI, and parts of that widespread previous stay, so when you’ve used a fairly latest Huawei telephone, you’d be proper at residence, however there are distinctions. Naturally, the place the 2 differ, the Magic Vs aligns with Honor’s newest non-bendy fashions, even when they might nonetheless be on prior Magic variations.

The Honour Magic5 Professional is powered by the most recent Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 CPU, LPDDR5X RAM, and UFS4.0 storage chips.

The SD8G2 options an octa-core processor with one main core, 4 efficiency cores (2+2), and three environment friendly cores (1+2+2+3). Which means that the CPU has 1×3.2GHz Cortex-X3 CPU cores, 2×2.8GHz Cortex-A715 and a couple of×2.8GHz Cortex-A710 CPU cores, and three×2.0GHz Cortex-A510 CPU cores.

The Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset features a Ray Tracing-capable Adreno 740 GPU. It stays to be seen whether or not and the way that is employed in real cell video games sooner or later.

Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.2, NFC, and dual-SIM 5G are all supported by the Macig5 Professional.

 

Two ToF 3D techniques and 4 cameras:

 

On the rear of the Honour Magic5 Professional, there are three cameras: a 50MP main, a 50MP ultrawide, and a 50MP telephoto. An 8×8 dToF laser focusing system for autofocus and depth mapping, a single-LED flash, a flicker sensor, and a multi-spectrum color sensor (behind the white cowl adjoining to the yellow LED flash) are additionally included.

The Magic5 Professional comes with a 12MP front-facing digital camera in addition to one other ToF system for autofocus and depth mapping.

The first digital camera is supplied with a 50MP customised 1/1.12″ sensor with 1.4m pixels. It’s housed behind a superb 23mm f/1.6 OIS lens. It’s value noting that, as is customary, the digital camera app saves cropped images with a focal size of 27mm.

By way of light-gathering means, this main digital camera vastly outperforms the Magic4 Professional, which had a 1/1.56″ sensor and an f/1.8 aperture. Even higher, Honour added Optical Picture Stabilisation to the primary digital camera (the Magic4 Professional doesn’t have OIS).

The 50MP extremely wide-angle (122°) digital camera has autofocus and a 13mm lens with a brighter aperture – f/2.0 vs. f/2.2 on the Magic4 Professional’s UW digital camera.

The third digital camera on the again has a 50MP sensor as effectively, nonetheless it’s paired with a 90mm f/3.0 periscopic stabilised lens. This digital camera seems to crop barely as effectively, because it saves images with a focal size equal to 95mm.

This telephone contains two cameras, certainly one of which is able to taking pictures macro pictures. The ultra-wide module can do it at a distance of roughly 2.5cm, whereas the tele digital camera can do it at a distance of 30cm. The UW digital camera is used for closeups within the Tremendous Macro mode.

Picture High quality.

Versus many different 50MP imagers, the primary digital camera saves 12MP images by default reasonably than 12.5MP. That’s as a result of the digital camera app considerably crops the perimeters, which is why the precise 23mm focal size is totally different from the 27mm one listed within the EXIF.

In any case, these 12MP inventory photos are certainly amongst of the perfect obtainable immediately from a smartphone. There isn’t any discernible noise, an extremely excessive degree of element, and a balanced sharpness. Even higher, the processing is pretty superior, and each minute element is superbly rendered; even random element is well-developed, which is tough for smaller Quad-Bayer sensors to do. The entire picture samples have glorious distinction, and the dynamic vary is appropriate however not extreme. In my view, that is the proper method.

 

As we beforehand acknowledged, these images are unquestionably among the many greatest of their class, corresponding to the highest fashions from Sony and Huawei., and Samsung. Taking pictures at 50MP with the Excessive-Res setting after which lowering to 12MP is one method to get much less processed images. The 50MP images are fairly good, with ample element and attributes that match the same old output by way of colors, distinction, and dynamic vary. Some images have apparent noise, nevertheless it isn’t distracting. You received’t acquire larger element when you shoot in 50MP after which downsize to 12MP, however like we talked about, it’s going to seem extra pure. Nonetheless, given the balanced Honour processing, 

The ultrawide digital camera shops 12.5MP pictures by default, because it ought to – no cropping right here. The images I took with the Honour Magic5 Professional are incredible; they’re tremendously vast, with quite a lot of resolved element and, as soon as once more, completely balanced sharpness and total rendition. Corners are additionally expertly mounted. There isn’t any apparent noise within the photos, the colors are vibrant and true to life, the distinction is nice, albeit considerably decrease than what the primary digital camera gives, and the dynamic vary could be very broad. Total, the ultrawide digital camera delivered first rate efficiency and, as soon as once more, flagship-worthy photos.

 

There’s a distinct Tremendous Macro mode, and it could additionally show as a toggle on the viewfinder if the digital camera app or AI (if enabled) determines that you just require it. The Tremendous Macro mode itself has 1x and 2x zoom capabilities, though we suggest avoiding the 2x choice if doable as a result of it’s achieved by cropping and upscaling from the default 13mm view, which degrades total shot high quality. Closeup photos taken with the ultrawide digital camera are significantly enticing – their centres are detailed and sharp, with developed objects that can undoubtedly reveal beforehand unseen particulars. The dynamic vary stays broad, and the distinction is enough.

 

The telephone is described as having a zoom vary of as much as 100x, and I couldn’t go up the prospect to shoot some 50x and 100x zoomed pictures – these are the 2 mounted areas while you attain the zoom bar. These are missing intimately, however you may nonetheless make what’s obtainable.

 

Portrait mode on the Magic5 Professional has 1x and 2x (default) modes, each of which use the primary digital camera. The default portraits are 2x zoomed, and they’re strong – the topic rendition and publicity are incredible, the separation is great, and the bokeh seems extraordinarily pure. Every thing else, together with noise discount, colors, and dynamic vary, is great. Nonetheless, the standard will not be nearly as good as a result of these had been clipped from the primary digital camera. It’s not a real digital zoom, however the element and crispness aren’t as much as tempo with the usual images under. Nonetheless, these will suffice for any event.

Lastly, allow us to talk about the selfie digital camera. The 12MP selfie digital camera has three FoVs, which translate to 18mm, 21mm, and 26mm in 35mm equal, or because the UI names them – Huge, 0.8x, and 1x. The digital camera at all times shops 12.5MP images, nonetheless we imagine there’s a higher-resolution sensor inside, probably a 13MP one. The 18mm selfies are distinctive and noticeably broad – the resolved element is substantial and the readability is great, the topic is pure, and it’s not over-processed. The images are noise-free, the colors are true and enticing, the distinction is robust, and the dynamic vary is above common.

 

Picture high quality in low gentle.

The Honour Magic5 Professional claims and provides superb night images. There’s additionally a brief Evening Mode, nevertheless it seems that the default taking pictures mode does the identical factor, and all images from the default output and the Evening Mode output are comparable. The images from the primary digital camera are properly uncovered, have quite a lot of resolved element, and have minimal, if any, noise. The dynamic vary is superb, and the distinction hasn’t suffered within the least. And the color replica is great, with reasonable and vibrant hues.

 

 

Video recording:

The Honour Magic5 Professional’s cameras can report video in 4K decision. Solely the primary and zoom cameras help 4K60. The rest are restricted to 4K30 video seize, although the entrance one may also seize [email protected] A annoying function I found is that each one 4K video seize modes are restricted to fifteen minutes, which is probably because of file measurement and file system limitations. This could be a really discouraging barrier for video artists, vloggers. Stabilisation is offered on all cameras; the entrance and ultrawide utilise EIS, the first makes use of OIS + EIS, and the telephoto seems to make use of solely OIS. Video stabilisation can’t be disabled.

The bitrate for the [email protected] clips is 39-40Mbps. The audio is at all times taken in stereo with a bitrate of 250kbps, and the sound is normally freed from wind and different interruptions and fairly wealthy. The principle digital camera’s 4K footage is great, with loads of resolved element and glorious readability. The colors are correct, the distinction is nice, and the dynamic vary is good. The video is freed from noise, and the processing seems to be extraordinarily proficient.

Conclusion:-

The Honour Magic5 Professional is an awfully highly effective smartphone with among the greatest show, audio system, chipset, cameras, and charging choices available on the market, all housed in a shocking and one-of-a-kind IP68-rated chassis. The digital camera expertise was as high-end because it will get today, with very good picture high quality and natural-looking, balanced output throughout the board. The identical might be stated for the video expertise, however I’ve seen just a few higher-quality zoomed movies on different flagships.The telephone lasted me two full days of use, and when empty solely took 45 minutes to cost again to full.

The Honour Magic5 Professional isn’t flawless, nevertheless it’s shut. The telephone has a slick look, and the 2x digital zoom isn’t as lossless as on different telephones ( I’m speaking about telephones with 1″ predominant cameras). The magnified motion pictures are additionally subpar, and there’s no 8K choice. Surprisingly, all 4K movies are restricted to fifteen minutes, which isn’t superb for video creators.

Lastly, the GPU throttles rather a lot when operating in peak efficiency, which is a factor it is best to take into account when you contemplate aggressive gaming. However even with these setbacks, the Honor Magic5 Professional is a strong provide with flagship specs and high quality high to backside. actually has the whole lot and it’s not the costliest provide available on the market.

However with all that stated I beloved my time with the Magic5 Professional and having had the most recent flagship from Samsung for previous few years, I do suppose that the main manufacture’s have some critical competitors to fret about.