Honor’s latest flagship smartphone is finally getting a global release after its China-only launch in October, and it’s much earlier than some expected.
The Honor Magic 8 Pro will make its debut in Malaysia on 27 November, with pre-orders opening the same day and a free Insta360 Ace Pro camera thrown in for early buyers. A wider European launch is expected to follow soon after, with Honor sending out Save the Dates for an event in Dubai on 10 December.
This Malaysian launch only covers the Magic 8 Pro, not the standard Magic 8, so the focus is very much on Honor’s full-fat flagship. Pre-orders in Malaysia run from 27 November to 4 December, and anyone who reserves the phone in that window is eligible for the Insta360 bundle.
It is a neat pairing, since Honor is heavily pushing the Magic 8 Pro as an imaging flagship, and the action cam sweetens the deal for creators and travel addicts.
Power comes from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the same high-end chip used in the Chinese version, so performance should be identical. Up front, you get a 6.71-inch LTPO OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of up to 6,000 nits, which should keep things readable even in harsh sunlight.
Cameras are a major selling point. On the back, the Magic 8 Pro carries a triple setup with a 200 megapixel periscope telephoto, a 50 megapixel main sensor, and a 50 megapixel ultrawide with autofocus.
Honor is positioning that telephoto as a serious long-range option, with optical zoom and heavy stabilisation to keep shots sharp. The whole package leans on Honor’s latest AI tools for low-light scenes and portrait work, building on what the brand has been doing with earlier phones in the Magic series.
Now it is just a question of how quickly Honor can get the Magic 8 Pro into more markets and how aggressively it decides to price it against other late 2025 flagships.
