today we're taking a look at the impressive honor magic 4 pro
with insane specifications and that's coming up right after this!
today we're going to unbox and review the honor magic 4 pro a phone that really has it all before
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now so you don't miss a thing in the future so here we have the honor magic 4 pro on his first
global flagship phone that literally is packed full of impressive specs they've pretty much
looked at the specs that everyone wants from a phone then put it all into one device to make
a truly feature-packed flagship so some of you may be aware that on a were sub brand of Huawei
and of course Huawei had lots of issues with the usa and they ended up losing license android over
legal restrictions and this caused honor to branch away and become their own brand now this means
that with honor devices we get full google support including the play store and it's just the same as
any other android smartphone now overall i have to say that i'm a huge fan of this honor magic 4
pro there are a couple of things i don't like but it's far outweighed by all of the great stuff that
it does have to offer we've got a premium build a premium display and a very impressive camera
system then we've also got things like 3d face id an in-display fingerprint scanner and then even
an ir blaster which we just don't see very often these days if we start with the unboxing we've
got a nice looking black box that's a lot bigger than we're used to seeing these days and of course
there's a very good reason for that that we'll cover shortly so inside we first get the honor
magic 4 pro and as you can see here mine is the cyan version but it's also available in black
white orange or gold next in the packaging we've got a sim removal tool and a protective case next
up we've got something i'm very happy to see and that's the charging brick along with a usb cable
now not only is the charging brick included in the box but it's also a 100 watt fast charger that
could bring the honor magic 4's 4 600 mAh battery from naught percent to 60 in just 15 minutes
if that wasn't enough we also get 100 watts wireless charging and this can go from naught
to 50 in just 15 minutes so for the display we've got a stunning 6.81 inch ltpo amoled display with
HDR10+ a 120 hertz refresh rate and 1 000 nits of peak brightness it's got a resolution of 1312
x 2848 and an aspect ratio of 19 and a half by nine and it even comes with a pre-installed screen
protector for those of you that want it but if like me you prefer not to use one then just peel
it off as soon as you unbox it the display is a quad curve display and if you look it's completely
symmetrical all round rather than having a small top and then a huge chin down at the bottom
we've also got a dynamic refresh rate and it's gonna switch between 1 and 120 hertz to save on
your battery when high refresh rates are just not required you can also set the display refresh rate
in your settings we can choose between a constant 120 90 or 60. as you've probably already noticed
that we've got a pill shaped camera cut out in the top left corner and this houses a 12
megapixel ultrawide selfie camera with 100 degree field of view the front selfie camera can record
at 4k videos at 30 frames a second then we've also got this 3d depth sensor that will allow
for secure face id now the face unlock works incredibly well and i had no issues with accuracy
whether i'm wearing glasses or even a big set of headphones on my head now the only thing i would
like to see here is it automatically unlock and then open the home screen because at the moment if
i pick it up it wakes on raise and then it unlocks the phone instantly but i've got a swipe up to
actually get to my home screen now the in-display fingerprint scanner also works incredibly quickly
and it takes you straight to the home screen every time after coming from a pixel or i've had plenty
of fingerprint unlock issues it's refreshing to have something that works so well now if we take
a look at the back we've got a curved glass back and most notably this very large camera module in
the top center now while the camera module looks big and bold it actually doesn't protrude too far
from the phone and it is in fact quite slim i really like that the protective case that comes
with the phone also has a ridge that goes slightly past this module meaning it will protect it from
drops with the honor magic 4 pro we've also got a very impressive camera system it's a triple
camera system along with a flicker sensor a timer flight camera and then the led flash the primary
camera is a 50 megapixel wide angle camera it's equipped with the one over 1.56 inch sony imx 766
and it produces some impressive images and video we also have the 50 megapixel ultra wide and this
has a 120 degree field of view one over two and a half inch sensor and it's got an aperture of f 2.2
next we have the 64 megapixel periscope camera and this offers three and a half times optical zoom 10
times hybrid zoom and then 100 times digital zoom the timer flight sensor helps improve on image
focus speeds as well as accuracy or the flicker sensor as the name suggests reduces flicker
the rest of the back is incredibly reflective and it looks great but it is hard to get some good
shots of it on the camera also because of this smooth surface in its reflectiveness it means you
will be seeing plenty of fingerprint smudges on the back if you're not using a protective case now
it's a large phone coming in at 163.6 millimeters high and then 74.7 wide but it's relatively thin
at just 9.15 millimeters thanks to its curved design all over it's also still very comfortable
to hold in the hand we've got the power button and the volume rocker over on the right hand side and
then the usbc and the sim tray are at the bottom it feels well built overall and it's got a nice
weight at 215 grams and if you're a fan of larger phones then you're definitely going to like it
now of course the phone is powered up by the latest snapdragon 8 gen1 and it comes in a choice
of 256 gig storage with 8 gigabytes of ram 256 storage with 12 gigabytes of ram and then finally
you can choose gig storage with 12 gigabytes of ram now i have the 256 gigabyte storage and
8 gigabyte ram version which is of course ddr5 ram for those of you concerned with synthetic
benchmarks i've ran it through geekbench 5 where it scored 990 for single core and then 3293 for
multi when it comes to gaming it's also a great choice i've tried all the popular and demanding
games and it's a pleasure to play on the honor magic 4 pro of course thanks to the snapdragon
8gen 1 we get the smooth and stunning gameplay we expect and then thanks to honor os turbo x and gpu
turbo x engines the game plays incredibly without getting too hot we also don't have any black bars
on the display and the game goes all the way over the curves of the screen making it a pleasure to
play now the dual stereo speakers also sound fantastic for a phone so for those of you that
don't like using headphones when mobile gaming you get loud and crisp audio that produces enough bass
for an enjoyable experience so we're just going to take a look at the audio samples now
so with gaming out the way it's time to talk about the cameras now to be honest i only received this
phone five days ago so i haven't had as much time as i would have liked to go through the cameras
so maybe i will return with an in-depth camera comparison but from what i have been able to use
i've been very impressed with the camera and it can really compete with the other flagships in the
market as you can see with the honor magic 4 pro we get color accurate photos with plenty of detail
and then minimal noise it seems the approach here has been trying to get things as accurate
as possible and not over saturating the photos and overall it delivers a very true to life image
i've been happy with these shots from all of the different cameras whether it be day or night i'm
happy with the photos that have come out on the honor magic 4 pro when it comes to the zoom lens
of course we get impressive photos at the three and a half times optical zoom and then we also get
great photos going up to the 10 times hybrid zoom so this is going to give you plenty of photography
options when it comes to the 100 zoom it gives us a lot more detail on the objects far away
but of course this is digital zoom so we lose a lot of quality this far but the results aren't
too bad now to be honest personally i'm just not a fan of 100x digital zoom and i can't see
when i would personally use it but it's nice to have the option there if i do ever need it in
terms of video recording it also does well the ois works very well and results in stable video and of
course that we can record at 4k 60 frames a second in either 16x9 or 21x9 the color quality and
everything is great although the only complaint i have here is that when i'm recording in the normal
video mode i can only go between 1 and 10 times zoom there's no option for me to use the ultra
wide camera if i switch from the normal video mode to the pro mode however i can then record video
from the ultra wide camera now in terms of the camera app itself is packed full of options and
it's very easy to use we've got an aperture mode where we can select the aperture and shoot by that
we've got the night mode for taking night shots we've got the portrait mode for the portrait shots
and in here we can also apply a beauty filter if we want one and we can then set the level
of the filter we can also turn the bokeh effect on or off we've got the normal photo mode and
of course we can just take normal photos in here we can use all the lenses and go from ultra wide
all the way to a hundred times zoom we've got the video and as i said in this mode we can go
between 1 and 10 times zoom we've then got a movie mode and this is very interesting in here we can
shoot in slow motion we can choose 4k hdr we can even shoot in 10 bit 4k log we've also got some
cinematic luts you can choose from in here and it will show you the preview as you select them
we've got a pro mode for those of you that want to manually control the camera for that perfect shot
and then finally we've got the more option now in here we've got the usual things like slow-mo
panorama time-lapse and macro but i also like that we've got a document scanner built into
this section as i've normally got to open up my google drive app and use it from there
this is the video from the rear cameras this is 4k 60 frames a second 16x9 although there is an
option for 21x9 but i'm just walking not really giving too much effort to try and stabilize
yeah boy this way you can see the stabilization so if we just try the zoom
hard set on exactly but
3.8 if i'm just going to knock it back to 3.5 there you go so this is the 3.5 times zoom
and then we can actually go all the way to 10 times zoom
so this is a video from the front facing selfie camera while i was walking the dog i thought i'd
quickly try it out it's at 4k 30 frames a second and this is the max you can get from the front
facing camera on the automatic pro but looking at the screen it looks like it's really good quality
there's quite a bit of wind coming through it's a sunny day but a lot of wind coming through so
it'd be interesting to see how that comes out in the audio but looking at the phone it looks like
a great quality selfie camera when it comes to powering the device we've got a 4 600 milliamp
hour battery that not only charges at 100 watt with wires but we also get a 100 watt wireless
charging now i found this incredibly useful with honor's 100 watt wireless stand i just
place my phone on the stand and before i know it is charged the phone also supports reverse
wireless charging to charge your other electronics and this is a 5 watt reverse charge now the phone
is of course 5g it comes with wi-fi 6 and nfc it's ip68 water resistant and a feature that i
really like that didn't really fit anywhere else in the review is the ir blaster it's always handy
to be able to control your devices with your phone thanks to the ir blaster and the smart remote app
that comes with it you can control any infrared devices you wish setting up the smart remote app
that comes with it also could not be any simpler and overall it's a great addition to the phone
now the phone runs magic ui6 this is actually the first time that i've used this os i have
to say that overall i am happy with it and as you'd expect it's pretty much like other android
uis there's a bit of customization in there doing things like choosing the animations when you swipe
between the app icons and it comes with all the usual bundled applications along with a few extras
from honor now the only thing that i didn't like for me is that it comes with swift keyboard and
the only reason that i don't like swift keyboard is because there's no option to remove that number
row along the top so the first thing i did it was swap the swift keyboard for google keyboard
we've also got plenty of quick access shortcuts including a screen recorder as well as on a share
so overall i do like the software i just don't want to go into too much detail in this video
as i've probably already rambled on a little bit too long when it comes to pricing i don't actually
have the confirmed pricing from honor at the time of recording this video but online it seems like
the honor magic 4 pro is going to be launching at 930 pounds or 1099 euros and this is about 1
20 and this is of course for the 8 gigabytes of ram with 256 gig storage version that i have here
now of course the official launch event just finished before my video is live so you can double
check the pricing if you need to but if you look at the specs in here and compare them to the other
phones on the market then it is a very good price now this is honors first attempt at breaking into
the global flagship market and personally i think they've done a great job there's plenty of reasons
consider the honor magic 4 pro over something like the iphone 14 or the s22 ultra i mean for a start
you get the fingerprint scanner but no 3d face id on the s22 and then with the iphone you get the
3d face id but you get no in-display fingerprint scanner with the magic four pro you get both and
you're able to use both at the same time you get flagship specs all round in an impressive camera
system that's able to compete with the best in the market now of course i've placed the link
for the honor magic 4 pro down in the description below so you can go ahead and check that out now
but that's pretty much it for today's video so hopefully i have covered everything but of course
if there's anything i've missed or you've got any questions at all then just leave them in the
comments and i'll get back to you as soon as i can but thanks for watching the video if you liked it
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