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Have a look at this. This isn't an iPhone. It's also not a cheap knockoff because Honor claims it's just as good as an iPhone. And it includes a good chipset and a versatile set of cameras with a telephoto zoom. So, has Honor struck the perfect balance between quality and price? Let's run the 600 Pro through our gauntlet of tests and find out. The Honor 600 Pro is a globally available premium phone and doesn't cost quite as much as a top flagship. It packs a bright display, a large battery, a high-end Snapdragon chipset, and as I mentioned, a solid set of triple cameras. This means it could be a decent alternative to something like a Galaxy S26, for example.
The looks of the phone are clearly influenced by the current iPhones, especially the orange model. But the back is made of a single piece of glass with a grippy matte finish, and there's a wide and flat aluminum frame. There's a dedicated hardware key here, which you can use to launch AI shortcuts. The shortcuts are customizable in settings. And the button can also act as a shutter key for the cameras. This phone has great ingress protection. It's rated up to IP69K, and even when the screen is wet, it's quite responsive.
The phone's also certified to be somewhat resistant to drop damage, too. The display of the Honor 600 Pro is a 6.57-in OLED panel. The bezels are impressively thin around the entire display, coupled with a good sharpness that lends a premium viewing experience. This is also one of the most insanely bright displays we've seen here at GSMArena. We measured a maximum of over 1,700 nits in auto brightness mode, which is pretty good. But when measuring a small portion of the screen, it went up to a whopping 6,000 nits.
There is no LTPO tech here, though. That means that while the refresh rate is adaptive, it's not as dynamic or efficient, and the minimum it will dial down to is only 60 hertz. Under the display sits an optical fingerprint reader for biometrics. It's incredibly fast and accurate. No complaints here. The 600 Pro has stereo speakers, one bottom-firing and the other firing off the top. The phone earned a score of very good in our loudness test, and the sound is well-balanced and clean with crisp mids. You can listen for yourself through our comparison tool
linked below. The phone has an IR blaster, so you can use it to control other appliances with. And you can get the Honor 600 Pro with 256 or 512 gigs of storage on board. For a software experience, you get Honor's Magic OS 10 on top of Android 16. The interface uses iOS-like liquid glass effects with translucent bubbles and soft blur elements. You also get the Magic Capsule, a black bar around the selfie hole that holds shortcuts. It's something we've seen across many manufacturers these days. Magic Portal is Honor's take on a system-wide copy and paste tool. A long press on content such as an image brings up a contextual sidebar with suggested apps and actions.
You can keep these things within something called AI Memories. It acts as a sort of digital scrapbook, storing them for later reference. There are a bunch of AI-powered features, including subtitle generation and real-time translation of conversations and calls. You get plenty of AI photo editing tools within the gallery. But you can go even a step further into a dedicated AI photos agent. It gives you even more tools to work with, including natural language input for AI manipulations.
And through the image-to-video system, you can turn any of your images into an AI-generated video clip. For support, Honor is committed to a total of six OS updates and six years of security patches. The chipset of the Honor 600 Pro is a flagship one, but not the most recent. Inside is a Snapdragon 8 Elite, Qualcomm's top silicon of last year. As expected in benchmarks, the 600 Pro doesn't top the charts, but the performance is still very good, on par with flagships from 2025. The phone feels very snappy and responsive overall, and heavy gaming is no problem. And when it comes to the thermals, the Honor 600 Pro does a solid job for a flagship. Now, prolonged CPU stress
test, it maintained a steady 75% of peak performance. We did see a heavier dip in our GPU stress test, though, with throttling down to 50% of maximum. The Honor 600 Pro comes in different variants. The global version has a 7,000 mA battery, and the European one, which we have here, is 6,400 mA. We tested the battery life and got very good results. The Honor 600 Pro earned an overall active use score of about 18 hours. And the endurance should be even better for the non-European version. To top this battery up, the 600 Pro supports 80-W wired charging. With a proper adapter, we charged this
phone from 0 to 71% in half an hour, and a full charge took 48 minutes, which is solid. The phone also supports 50-W wireless charging, as well as reverse wireless charging. Now, we've made it to the cameras, which include a 200-megapixel main cam, a 50-megapixel 3.5x telephoto, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide with autofocus. During the day, the main camera takes properly great photos. They have excellent detail with a mature rendition. Colors pop with a likeable level of saturation. And there's a good balance between contrast and dynamic range.
Photos of people are also easy to like with pleasing skin tones and excellent facial detail. 2x digital zoom comes out good with a minor uptick in sharpening that doesn't ruin the overall excellent detail. The telephoto cam's 3.5x zoom shots also produce top-tier results. Detail is excellent, colors are expressive, and dynamic range is wide. And here are some people shots with the zoom camera. They're great with nice compression and good subject separation. With a digital crop at seven times zoom, the Honor 600 Pro still produces very good results. The ultra-wide camera delivers sharp photos, especially in good lighting.
It can be a bit too contrasty on occasion, but dynamic range is good overall. Here's a look at close-ups from the main and ultra-wide cameras. The telephoto isn't very usable for this type of shooting due to its relatively long minimum focusing distance. The Honor 600 Pro is capable of some superb selfies. Detail is excellent. Skin tones are looking good, and the exposures are fine-tuned to your face. All we really miss here is autofocus. Now for night time shots. The main cam produces great results with very good detail and excellent colors with spot-on white balance.
The photos could be exposed a bit brighter, but other than that, it's hard to complain. 3.5 times zoom shots at night aren't half bad either. Better-lit scenes and areas are properly sharp and detailed, while shadows or dimmer scenes are rendered softer, but still pretty good. The night time seven times zoom photos are actually quite good with decent sharpness. And the ultra-wide camera's low-light photos are solid. The level of sharpness may not be too exciting, but the dynamic range and colors are good here. The Honor 600 Pro can record videos in up to 4K at 60 FPS with its main and telephoto cameras, while the ultra-wide and selfie cams max out at 4K at 30 FPS.
Daylight videos from the main and telephoto cameras are matched in terms of overall look, and they have good sharpness, accurate exposures, wide dynamic range, and vibrant colors. The ultra-wide camera's output is softer with a more limited dynamic range. Electronic stabilization is a little floatier than we'd like with a gentle wavy motion that's made more noticeable while walking. At night, the main camera maintains very good quality. There's good dynamic range, nice sharpness, and great colors. The telephoto is looking all right, balancing between noise and detail, The dynamic range isn't the best.
The ultra-wide, on the other hand, is pretty much unusable for recording at night. So, that was the Honor 600 Pro. It packs a super bright screen with thin bezels, great battery life, and unique AI functionality. And there's a good set of cameras to boot. There are just a few nitpicks here, like the lack of LTPO on the display and no autofocus on the selfie cam. And for the price, you can get a phone with a newer chipset. And no, it's not exactly a budget device. A price tag of around 800 bucks puts this phone up against plenty of proper flagships. Still, in the end, the Honor 600 Pro is a solid and likable high-end phone that's worth recommending.
Thanks for watching, guys. If you're looking for alternatives, you can check out our reviews of the OnePlus 15 and the Samsung Galaxy S26. Let us know what you think, and I'll see you on the next one.
