Honor’s flagship Magic7 Pro includes a 200MP telephoto camera

Image: Honor

Honor has announced global availability for the Magic7 Pro, a flagship phone that features a 200MP sensor on its telephoto lens. While the phone has been available in China since October, it’s now available many more countries.

Despite having the highest resolution, the 200MP camera actually isn’t the phone’s main shooter. The Magic7 Pro’s ‘wide’ camera uses a 50MP Type 1/1.3 (9.8 x 7.4mm) with optical image stabilization and an aperture that can switch between F1.4 and F2, depending on the situation. The ultrawide camera also uses a 50MP sensor, though it’s a smaller Type 1/2.88 (5.0 x 3.7mm) model, attached to an F2 lens that provides a 122° field of view.

Image: Honor

The 200MP Type 1/1.4 (9.1 x 6.9mm) sensor is used for the phone’s 3x F2.6 telephoto lens, which rounds out the phone’s trio of cameras, not counting the 50MP selfie camera. It likely uses the Omnivision OVB0A sensor, so likely utilizes an oversized 4 x 4 Bayer color filter array, similar to quad bayer technology found in many other phones. The Magic7 Pro isn’t the first phone we’ve seen with a 200MP sensor. Some of the company’s previous offerings have featured one, as have phones from competitors like Samsung and Xiaomi.

However, it does show that the company is at least somewhat serious about people being able to use the Magic7 Pro as a photographic tool. While a high resolution isn’t an automatic sign of quality, it should give you a fair amount of flexibility when you run out of optical zoom and have to start cropping in. The company says you can achieve a “100x digital zoom,” though by that point, the image will likely be noticeably softer despite all the megapixels.

Honor’s site presents this image as an example of the Magic7 Pro’s 100x digital zoom. Image: Honor

Beyond the cameras, the Magic7 Pro seems like a very capable phone. It features Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, a 5750 mAh battery that you can quickly charge at up to 100W, and a 6.8″ display that’s capable of reaching a brightness of 1600 nits across the entire screen. Honor will also provide owners with five years of updates, according to GSMArena. While that’s not best in class – Samsung and Google both promise to update their flagships for seven years, and Apple has been known to support phones for even longer than that – it’s still nothing to sneeze at.

The phone starts at €1299, or £1099, and is available in “Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions.” The base model – which appears to be the only one currently available in some countries – comes with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.

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