HONOR is gearing up to release its next heavy hitters, and the company isn’t holding much back ahead of the official April 22 launch. Thanks to newly surfaced official listings and some early reporting, we now have a remarkably clear picture of what the HONOR 600 and HONOR 600 Pro are bringing to the table.
Let’s start with the sheer horsepower. The standard HONOR 600 is running on a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset, but the HONOR 600 Pro is making the leap to Qualcomm’s top-tier Snapdragon 8 Elite. Both phones are packing up to 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM and a spacious 512GB of storage. It’s exactly the kind of extra headroom you want when you’re trying to future-proof your daily driver.
Both models feature a 6.55-inch 1.5K 120Hz OLED display. HONOR claims these panels can hit an ultra-bright 8,000 nits of peak brightness, so you can comfortably use your screen at the beach this summer. Visually, the brand is leaning into a highly symmetrical design with razor-thin 0.98mm bezels, a matte metal frame, and a cold-carved glass back that comes in orange, black, and a rather striking golden white. If the rectangular camera module looks a bit familiar, that’s because it heavily borrows from the visual language of recent iPhone Pro models — a design choice that certainly doesn’t hurt its premium ambitions.
As for the battery, HONOR is stepping down slightly from the huge 8,000mAh cell found in the previous generation, but the new 7,000mAh capacity across both the HONOR 600 and HONOR 600 Pro is still big by any modern smartphone standard. You are getting 80-watt wired fast charging on both, plus 27-watt wired reverse charging to juice up your dead earbuds or a friend’s device in a pinch. If you spring for the Pro, you also get 50-watt wireless charging.
On the camera front, it is a numbers game. Both phones rock a 200-megapixel main camera equipped with a 1/1.4-inch sensor and optical image stabilization. They also share a 12-megapixel ultra-wide lens and a 50-megapixel selfie shooter. The Pro model earns its nameplate by throwing in a 50-megapixel telephoto lens with OIS for those tighter, compressed portrait shots.
HONOR is likewise pushing software hard this time around, shipping the series with MagicOS 10.0. The big parlor trick here is AI Image-to-Video 2.0, a built-in feature that lets you generate and edit video content right from your camera roll using text prompts or start-and-end reference frames.
The standout trick is AI Image-to-Video 2.0, which lets you turn photos into editable video using text prompts or reference frames
Rounding out the package is some serious durability. The series holds IP68, IP69, and IP69K ratings, so it is built to survive everything from a quick plunge in the pool to high-pressure, high-temperature water jets.
With specs this ambitious, HONOR isn’t just launching a new smartphone series on April 22; it’s making a statement about where the daily driver is headed — and hopefully the Philippines will see the lineup soon after its rollout in Malaysia and Singapore.
Source: GSMArena
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