**The Honor Magic 6 Pro: A Solid Android Phone with Some Mixed Bag Features**

The Honor Magic 6 Pro is a solid Android phone that offers a lot of great features, but also has some areas where it falls short. One of the most notable features of this phone is its battery life, which comes in at an impressive 5,600 milliamps. This is one of the biggest batteries you can get on a phone at the moment, and it shows in how long it lasts throughout the day. I was able to easily make it through the day without needing to recharge my phone, even if I hadn't used it heavily.

However, one thing that's missing from this phone is fast charging. While it does come with 80W fast charging capabilities, there is no fast charger included in the box. This can be a bit of a drawback for people who need to top up their battery quickly. On the other hand, Honor does offer 66W wireless charging, which makes it easy to get back to full charge without having to plug in.

Another area where the Magic 6 Pro shines is its cameras. While they may not blow the competition away, they do take great photos in daylight conditions. The main camera features a 50MP Omnivision sensor and can switch between f/1.4 and f/2 aperture. This feature sounds cool on paper, but in practice, it's not as noticeable as you might think. Additionally, the cameras are only available to use in Pro mode, which may limit their appeal for some users.

However, when it comes to zoom capabilities, the Magic 6 Pro really shines. The phone features two 2.5x and 5x zoom lenses, and I was impressed with how well they performed. Whether you're using the 180MP camera or one of the zoom lenses, the detail in shots is excellent. In fact, I was surprised by how good the photos turned out to be at higher zoom levels - up to 100 times zoom, in fact!

At night, the cameras also perform well, with sharp images and minimal noise. However, there is some color shifting between lenses that can be noticeable, especially under certain conditions.

**Video Capabilities**

One area where the Magic 6 Pro falls a bit short is in its video capabilities. While it does record 4K at 60fps, I found that the footage wasn't quite as sharp as I would have liked. However, the phone's stabilization system does a good job of smoothing out the footage, which makes up for some of the lackluster image quality.

**Overall Impressions**

My time with the Magic 6 Pro was a bit of a mixed bag. While it doesn't do anything better than its competition in terms of raw performance, it also doesn't fall short in any significant way. It's a solid Android phone that offers a lot of great features, but may not be the best choice for everyone.

One major drawback is that the Magic 6 Pro won't be available in the US, which limits its appeal to people who are tied to their Google ecosystem. However, this shouldn't be a major issue for those who can download their Google apps and updates directly from the internet. The phone also comes with four years of major Android updates and five years of security patches, which is a great safety net.

**Should You Buy the Honor Magic 6 Pro?**

If you're considering buying the Magic 6 Pro, I'd love to know why you would choose it over other options like a Google Pixel or a Galaxy S24. Is there something specific that sets this phone apart from its competitors? Let me know in the comments below!

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is the honor magic 6 Pro and I've been using it for the last couple of weeks and it's got me thinking that maybe it's more Sparkle than it is Magic before we get started if you enjoy watching reviews on the latest and greatest Android phones then why not subscribe to the Android authoriz YouTube channel so you don't miss out on any of the latest reviews let me just start off by saying that the hom magic 6 Pro is actually a really solid phone it has a Snapdragon 8 gen3 like all major flagships so it's more than powerful enough we're talking a 180 megapixel 2 .5 times camera and one of the biggest batteries that I've ever seen at 5,600 mahs there is one thing that the 6 Pro does really well and it stands out amongst a sea of every other Android phone that's mostly down to its squirkle named camera bump which looks a little bit more like a piece of jewelry than it does a classic camera cutout but I really appreciate what honor have done here they put some effort into making it different and it works because it just stands out and the feel of this phone as well on the back back of it is a faux leather so it's not like your classic matte glass finishes or matte plastic finishes that you might see on any other Android phones and I'll be honest it does take a little bit of getting used to it does have this really nice texture on the back and I didn't like it right away but you know what after a few weeks I'm a little bit more on board with it now again it's different and stands out and another aspect of this phone that does make it stand out is that display now honor have gone against the curve and stuck with the Curve this year it's a 6.8 in ltpo ol Le that actually looks really slick it's 120 HZ and it can drop down to just one Herz when needed as well and it has that Peak brightness of 5,000 nits when watching HDR content but I can't say that I've managed to actually get it to that 5,000 nits that often because I haven't watched that much HDR content outside all around this is actually a really top-of-the-line display when you watch content that's where it really stands out but either indoors or Outdoors there's no complaints here if you look at the bezels on the display as well you'll notice that actually they are so minimal because of that curved display and it does immerse you a little bit more in the content so when you watch something in Delby Vision it really is Cinema likee in terms of quality having said all that though I do have a bit of a problem with curved displays I think there's a reason why a lot of people have gone away from that and gone back to a flat display and I felt like with my time with this phone I was getting a lot of accidental touches and I found it just more difficult than using a flat display and I just don't think that magic OS helps here much either my biggest frustration with the entire phone is my typing experience and I don't think I've ever had a bad typing experience on a phone ever before but the onor magic 6 Pro is a first the keyboard is really low and I feel like it's just in the wrong place and I switched to gboard hoping that this would help but actually it feels like you just need to be looking at everything you type that space bar is too low letters don't seem to be quite where you expect them to be and I didn't think this is just a me problem if you have an honor magic 6 Pro then let me know in the comments if you've had this same typing experience cuz surely it can't just be me while we're talking about software let's just touch on Magic OS and my first impressions of this a couple of weeks ago were that it's almost there and I kind of stick by this it feels semi familiar but you still need to take some time to get used to it one of the familiar aspects of this is that Control Center and it looks like it's merged iOS and stock Android together for actually a really nice clean experience it's even taken Dynamic Island from Apple renamed it the magic pill and put the media controls inside that magic pill and it works really nicely it means you can get into media controls or anything that you're watching really quickly customizing the home screen and lock screens again takes a bit of getting used to with pinching to edit and a few other differences but I really like the customization you get on Magic OS being able to blur the wallpaper and have a load of always on display options to pick from which makes it feel just really customizable and actually it's fun to play with that always on display again feels like it's taken a little bit from I and one uui and put it into its own honor magic OS style magic OS is almost there and I feel like next year it might get a bit better but at the moment you just need to allow a little bit more time to get used to it when you want to unlock this phone you get a couple of options you get fingerprint and a 3D face unlock the fingerprint reader is accurate it's really quick and my only issue here is that it just seems to be a little bit too far down on the display for what I'm used to it's much closer to the bottom of the display than it is to the middle so again a little bit more of a learning curve Face Unlock though is surprisingly good it's superb whether you're in the dark or whether you're in a really nicely lit room again another learning experience here is when you swipe up to unlock your phone with face ID now you have to swipe from the middle of the display rather than the bottom otherwise you get this really annoying magazine lock notification which I just couldn't seem to turn off and I've swiped up from the bottom of the screen about a million times and it is so frustrating before we move move on to the cameras and have a look at them there's one aspect of this phone that I want to say is fantastic and that is the battery I already mentioned it's 5,600 milliamps which is one of the biggest batteries you can get on a phone at the moment and usually that can sound good on paper and it might not be as good in reality but this is good in reality and on paper getting to the end of the day is so easy and I can easily have around about 30% left and if I haven't used it heavily during that day I can easily get to the next day without even charging it you've got 80 W fast charging with this but sadly no fast charger in the box with our unit and you can also have 66 WT wireless charging as well to get you back to full in no time at all where onor is hoping to cast some magic though this year is with its cameras and I've got to tell you these are not bad at all there's a main camera with a 50 map omnivision sensor a 180 map 2.5 times camera and a 50 megap Ultra wide one of the most unique parts of that main camera lens is being able to switch it aperture between f1.4 and F2 which in theory is a really cool feature to have but in practice there's not much difference between changing those f- stops and a lot of people won't go into that Pro Photo mode and you can't use this in the automatic settings so a nice cool feature that honor put into this but something that I don't think that many people will use the cameras overall I think take great photos especially in daylight they're sharp they're Punchy and it's just not oversaturated and looks in my opinion really close to real life d range is really nice and it might sound stupid but I was shocked at how good these photos were when you move to the zoom lenses though this again is where I think that the honor magic 6 Pro really stands out whether you go for 2.5 or five times this is where I love the detail in shots the quality for me is excellent and I know it's all personal preference but the time that I sped with it I really enjoyed it 2.5 time zoom is where you would see the best detail with the 180 megapixels but I was actually shocked at how you can capture details when you go a bit further to five times or even 10 times you can go all the way to 100 times Zoom but these photos turn out as expected very little detail and I would say can barely pass as a usable photo nighttime photos on all these lenses come out really nicely as well they're sharp and there's no noticeable noise in the images it takes and there did seem to be a bit of color shifting between lenses dependent on the conditions I think overall with low light and nighttime photography this is something that you won't be disappoint pointed on we have to talk about video that you can shoot on this as well and 4K at 60 is what it maxes out at but I think this is where the cameras might lack a little bit of that oomph it records some okay footage but it does lack a little bit of sharpness for my liking but the stabilization that the cameras do I think it does fairly well when it comes to nighttime video I found the results on this one to just be overall a little bit disappointing my time with the Y magic 6 Pro overall has been a bit of a mix bag I can't say it does anything better than its competition like the pixel 88 Pro or the s24 ultra but equally so it doesn't do anything wrong it's a really solid Android phone I think the biggest shame here is that not that many people will get to experience this phone because it's not available in the US but if you are thinking about picking it up and you're in Europe or elsewhere and you're worried about can you download your Google apps to this then yet you absolutely can the Google Play Store is built right in in terms of major Android updates as well honor said you'll get four years of those major updates and 5 years of security so if you do pick it up it's going to last you the while let me know though is this a phone that you would pick up and if so why would you choose this over a Google pixel or a Galaxy s24 I'm actually genuinely curious so let me know in the comments below before you head off why not subscribe to the Android authority YouTube channel so you don't miss out on any of the reviews that we have coming up on some of the latest and greatest Android devices and if you do that then I will see you laterthis is the honor magic 6 Pro and I've been using it for the last couple of weeks and it's got me thinking that maybe it's more Sparkle than it is Magic before we get started if you enjoy watching reviews on the latest and greatest Android phones then why not subscribe to the Android authoriz YouTube channel so you don't miss out on any of the latest reviews let me just start off by saying that the hom magic 6 Pro is actually a really solid phone it has a Snapdragon 8 gen3 like all major flagships so it's more than powerful enough we're talking a 180 megapixel 2 .5 times camera and one of the biggest batteries that I've ever seen at 5,600 mahs there is one thing that the 6 Pro does really well and it stands out amongst a sea of every other Android phone that's mostly down to its squirkle named camera bump which looks a little bit more like a piece of jewelry than it does a classic camera cutout but I really appreciate what honor have done here they put some effort into making it different and it works because it just stands out and the feel of this phone as well on the back back of it is a faux leather so it's not like your classic matte glass finishes or matte plastic finishes that you might see on any other Android phones and I'll be honest it does take a little bit of getting used to it does have this really nice texture on the back and I didn't like it right away but you know what after a few weeks I'm a little bit more on board with it now again it's different and stands out and another aspect of this phone that does make it stand out is that display now honor have gone against the curve and stuck with the Curve this year it's a 6.8 in ltpo ol Le that actually looks really slick it's 120 HZ and it can drop down to just one Herz when needed as well and it has that Peak brightness of 5,000 nits when watching HDR content but I can't say that I've managed to actually get it to that 5,000 nits that often because I haven't watched that much HDR content outside all around this is actually a really top-of-the-line display when you watch content that's where it really stands out but either indoors or Outdoors there's no complaints here if you look at the bezels on the display as well you'll notice that actually they are so minimal because of that curved display and it does immerse you a little bit more in the content so when you watch something in Delby Vision it really is Cinema likee in terms of quality having said all that though I do have a bit of a problem with curved displays I think there's a reason why a lot of people have gone away from that and gone back to a flat display and I felt like with my time with this phone I was getting a lot of accidental touches and I found it just more difficult than using a flat display and I just don't think that magic OS helps here much either my biggest frustration with the entire phone is my typing experience and I don't think I've ever had a bad typing experience on a phone ever before but the onor magic 6 Pro is a first the keyboard is really low and I feel like it's just in the wrong place and I switched to gboard hoping that this would help but actually it feels like you just need to be looking at everything you type that space bar is too low letters don't seem to be quite where you expect them to be and I didn't think this is just a me problem if you have an honor magic 6 Pro then let me know in the comments if you've had this same typing experience cuz surely it can't just be me while we're talking about software let's just touch on Magic OS and my first impressions of this a couple of weeks ago were that it's almost there and I kind of stick by this it feels semi familiar but you still need to take some time to get used to it one of the familiar aspects of this is that Control Center and it looks like it's merged iOS and stock Android together for actually a really nice clean experience it's even taken Dynamic Island from Apple renamed it the magic pill and put the media controls inside that magic pill and it works really nicely it means you can get into media controls or anything that you're watching really quickly customizing the home screen and lock screens again takes a bit of getting used to with pinching to edit and a few other differences but I really like the customization you get on Magic OS being able to blur the wallpaper and have a load of always on display options to pick from which makes it feel just really customizable and actually it's fun to play with that always on display again feels like it's taken a little bit from I and one uui and put it into its own honor magic OS style magic OS is almost there and I feel like next year it might get a bit better but at the moment you just need to allow a little bit more time to get used to it when you want to unlock this phone you get a couple of options you get fingerprint and a 3D face unlock the fingerprint reader is accurate it's really quick and my only issue here is that it just seems to be a little bit too far down on the display for what I'm used to it's much closer to the bottom of the display than it is to the middle so again a little bit more of a learning curve Face Unlock though is surprisingly good it's superb whether you're in the dark or whether you're in a really nicely lit room again another learning experience here is when you swipe up to unlock your phone with face ID now you have to swipe from the middle of the display rather than the bottom otherwise you get this really annoying magazine lock notification which I just couldn't seem to turn off and I've swiped up from the bottom of the screen about a million times and it is so frustrating before we move move on to the cameras and have a look at them there's one aspect of this phone that I want to say is fantastic and that is the battery I already mentioned it's 5,600 milliamps which is one of the biggest batteries you can get on a phone at the moment and usually that can sound good on paper and it might not be as good in reality but this is good in reality and on paper getting to the end of the day is so easy and I can easily have around about 30% left and if I haven't used it heavily during that day I can easily get to the next day without even charging it you've got 80 W fast charging with this but sadly no fast charger in the box with our unit and you can also have 66 WT wireless charging as well to get you back to full in no time at all where onor is hoping to cast some magic though this year is with its cameras and I've got to tell you these are not bad at all there's a main camera with a 50 map omnivision sensor a 180 map 2.5 times camera and a 50 megap Ultra wide one of the most unique parts of that main camera lens is being able to switch it aperture between f1.4 and F2 which in theory is a really cool feature to have but in practice there's not much difference between changing those f- stops and a lot of people won't go into that Pro Photo mode and you can't use this in the automatic settings so a nice cool feature that honor put into this but something that I don't think that many people will use the cameras overall I think take great photos especially in daylight they're sharp they're Punchy and it's just not oversaturated and looks in my opinion really close to real life d range is really nice and it might sound stupid but I was shocked at how good these photos were when you move to the zoom lenses though this again is where I think that the honor magic 6 Pro really stands out whether you go for 2.5 or five times this is where I love the detail in shots the quality for me is excellent and I know it's all personal preference but the time that I sped with it I really enjoyed it 2.5 time zoom is where you would see the best detail with the 180 megapixels but I was actually shocked at how you can capture details when you go a bit further to five times or even 10 times you can go all the way to 100 times Zoom but these photos turn out as expected very little detail and I would say can barely pass as a usable photo nighttime photos on all these lenses come out really nicely as well they're sharp and there's no noticeable noise in the images it takes and there did seem to be a bit of color shifting between lenses dependent on the conditions I think overall with low light and nighttime photography this is something that you won't be disappoint pointed on we have to talk about video that you can shoot on this as well and 4K at 60 is what it maxes out at but I think this is where the cameras might lack a little bit of that oomph it records some okay footage but it does lack a little bit of sharpness for my liking but the stabilization that the cameras do I think it does fairly well when it comes to nighttime video I found the results on this one to just be overall a little bit disappointing my time with the Y magic 6 Pro overall has been a bit of a mix bag I can't say it does anything better than its competition like the pixel 88 Pro or the s24 ultra but equally so it doesn't do anything wrong it's a really solid Android phone I think the biggest shame here is that not that many people will get to experience this phone because it's not available in the US but if you are thinking about picking it up and you're in Europe or elsewhere and you're worried about can you download your Google apps to this then yet you absolutely can the Google Play Store is built right in in terms of major Android updates as well honor said you'll get four years of those major updates and 5 years of security so if you do pick it up it's going to last you the while let me know though is this a phone that you would pick up and if so why would you choose this over a Google pixel or a Galaxy s24 I'm actually genuinely curious so let me know in the comments below before you head off why not subscribe to the Android authority YouTube channel so you don't miss out on any of the reviews that we have coming up on some of the latest and greatest Android devices and if you do that then I will see you later\n"