[Music] the honor magic 5 Pro which has a lot of similarities with its predecessor and surprisingly
it even has some downgrades but today I'm going to be taking you through the good and the bad
with this new flagship from honor like many other manufacturers this year they've worked
on refining rather than completely redesigning the phone which isn't necessarily a bad thing
I just know some people like to see something new now the display looks exactly the same as
the predecessor and that's because it is we've got a 6.81 inch 120 hertz display with the same 2848
x 1312 resolution but we do however get 1800 nits of peak brightness which is a big step up from the
Falls 1000 now this makes it great for use even out in heavy sunlight and overall the display is
just a pleasure to use the colors look great it's fast smooth and responsive and we've also got the
curved edges to give it that premium look and feel and I haven't had issues with accidental
touches we've also got another upgrade it to 2160hz PWM dimming to make it easier on the
eye but to be honest I don't suffer with any sort of eye strain so I can't comment on the
effectiveness now we've also got a new discrete security chip for passwords and Biometrics and I
have to say the fingerprint scanner is impressive it just works well every time and I haven't had
any issues with it not recognizing my fingerprint and as you can see here even with the screen off
it unlocks fast and it unlocks every time now it's the same story with the face unlock it takes two
seconds to set up and it works every time although I tend to stick it with the fingerprint as I find
it slightly faster and I just generally prefer it now over on the back you can see that the magic
5 pro has a similar design to its predecessor with the circular camera module but this time
the back panel is molded into it with this even curve around the whole module now I had a strange
feeling with this because the first time I picked it up I hated it it just felt strange as my finger
goes onto the curve but then after a couple of hours it felt completely normal and to be honest
I think it's just me being Aid now we again have a triple camera setup but this time it's
a 50 megapixel primary a 50 megapixel Ultra wide and then a 50 megapixel telephoto with three and
a half times optical zoom and I have to say the cameras are pretty decent but we'll get
into detail on that shortly now the honor magic 5 Pro is also a bit thinner than its predecessor
coming in at 8.8 millimeters although it's also slightly wider but it also comes with a larger
5100 milliamp hour battery now battery life has been great and it's never run out on me I've had
plenty of screen on time and at the time of doing this review I've never actually had it drop below
20 battery now one of the things I loved about the magic 4 Pro was the 100 watt fast charger for both
wired and wireless but unfortunately this area we see a bit of a downgrade now we still get a
66 watt fast charger when using wires and then a 50 watt Wireless charge and we also get a 5 watt
reverse wireless charging so it's still plenty and much further ahead of things like the s23
and the iPhone it just would have been nice to keep that 100 watt fast charge now I don't
know if this decision would have been for battery longevity or a component shortage or maybe even to
reduce the price to Consumers but it is a little bit disappointing it's powered by the Snapdragon
8 Gen 2 and this version has 8 gigs of RAM with 256 storage but it's also available in 512 storage
with 12 gigs of RAM and the storage is ufs4 as you can expect with this Hardware it's going to
handle anything you throw at it for both apps and gaming now with the large curved display it's just
a pleasure to Game On And for those concerned about the synthetic benchmarks I'm afraid I
can't actually give you the numbers now for some reason geekbench 6 and 3dmark refuse to install
via the Play Store which isn't great now I've had this a few times before with review devices where
it won't install until I get the final consumer firmware update but as far as I've heard from
honor this is the stable update so I'll have to update you guys on this later on now apart from
that all the other apps have installed and worked fine Magic OS 7.1 has been great to use without
many bugs or problems now magic OS has come a long way from where it once was and it now offers a lot
of features within its own ecosystem and you can use things like the magic ring that lets
you control multiple devices with your mouse and keyboard we've got honor notes for keeping notes
and voice recordings we've now got magic text and this can recognize that phone numbers at websites
an email address when you're taking a picture of text so now onto the cameras and I have to say I'm
very impressed with the cameras one of the things I like most about the honor magic 5 Pro is that
it doesn't matter which lens you're going to use you always get great photos I've had it on a few
phones lately where they give us a great primary camera but then a subpar Ultra wide and this
results in different colors between the images but with the magic 5 Pro this isn't the case on
all the photos we've got nice vibrant colors with some good dynamic range we get great detail in
both the shadows and the highlights and this is the same across all of the lenses now all these
photos were just point and click without giving much thought to it we've got some great exposure
and pretty much exactly how I wanted them to be now normally this is the part where I'd be picking
out the good photos as well as the bad ones but to be honest they were all pretty good having three
good lenses it just gives us so much Choice when taking the shot whether we want it wide at normal
with the three times optical zoom we do also have the option for a hundred times Zoom but of course
this is all digital and I guess it's nice to have the choice but at 100 times digital Zoom
the quality is so poor that I just don't think it's something I would ever consider doing now the
selfie camera also performs well and these were taken in difficult lighting conditions and the
portrait photos that do a good job with the edge detection and blurring out those backgrounds when
it comes to video it doesn't seem to be the same story we do get good video but it's not perfect
now something I do like is the ability to shoot in log for higher dynamic range you can shoot in
the log mode and then using the editor that comes with the magic 5 Pro we can choose it from their
predefined alerts to match the style this could be great for filmmakers or to get some great footage
for Instagram and you could even upload them to the computer and then use your own alerts now it
would have been nice for them to add the ability to upload your own alerts to the editing software
and not just be limited to their predefined ones on the phone now the primary camera shoots 4K 60
frames a second and as you can see the quality is good now this was in very difficult lighting
conditions with the sun shining directly at the lens just after the rain and this has caused some
problems with lens flare but the focus is great even when panning around it retains Focus no
problem now one thing that wasn't so good for me was the audio With the Wind coming at me now it
does make quite a bit of noise and often my voice sounds a little bit robotic so we'll just take a
listen so this is the rear camera 4K 60 frames a second we'll have to see on the computer what the
stabilization is like but there's a lot of wind tiny little bit of rain but the sun's starting to
come out we just do some panning give you an idea of what the focus is like indoors however it was
low lighting conditions and we got great video and the problems with the audio were completely gone
so for most of the time it's going to be fine just keep in mind if you are under heavy noise
like wind you might not get the best audio we'll just take a listen to the indoor audio now foreign
good boy there you go now the telephoto was also good for video and even when panning
around quickly with the zoom it retains Focus well and it auto focuses it nice and quickly
again with so much wind outside the audio from this video didn't come out too well
to take video from the ultra wide camera you've got to go into the pro mode and it is restricted
to 1080p at 30 frames a second and as you can see here from the video the quality isn't great
there's plenty of noise and it's probably not something I'd use for video now overall I like
this phone the problem I have at the moment is I wasn't given the UK launch price but the EU
launch price is 1199 euros and that's for the 12 gigabyte plus 512 storage so if you compare that
to something like the s23 ultra it's 1600 Euros for the same configuration then it seems a pretty
good buy no honor we're always a budget brand but in recent years that they've been pushing
their way into the flagship market and they're doing a great job at it so far now this is a
flagship phone with Flagship specs and Flagship cameras and it really is able to compete now of
course that there are a few minor issues that we've covered in the video but I have to say I
would give this phone my recommendation now of course if there's anything I haven't covered
or you've got any questions then just let me know in the comments and I'll get back to you
as soon as I can but the link to the phone is down in the description below so you can
go ahead and check that out and as soon as the launch is over I'm going to place the UK price
down in the description as well but thanks for watching the video if you liked it smash the
thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice and I'll see you guys in the next one