Honor Magic9 Pro Max arrives with 200MP main cam, ARRI camera tuning and SD 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme chip
The Magic9 Pro Max is Honor’s top-tier phone, and it checks all of the boxes for a late 2026 Android flagship. Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 (✓), dual 200 MP cameras(✓), a massive 8,800mAh Si-C battery with 100W wired and 80W wireless charging (✓). It’s also positioning itself as a professional-grade video camera alongside Honor’s budding partnership with German camera maker ARRI.
Magic9 Pro Max gets a new 23mm equivalent 200MP main cam armed with a 1/1.28-inch sensor and f/1.6 aperture. It’s paired with an 85mm equivalent 200MP periscope telephoto lens using a 1/1.4-inch sensor and capable of 3.7x optical zoom. The third shooter is a 12mm equivalent 50MP ultrawide.
Honor Magic9 Pro Max cameras (machine translated from Chinese)
Both the main and telephoto lenses feature CIPA 8.0 “gimbal-level” image stabilization. All three sensors benefit from ARRI image science and feature ARRI color profiles and cinematic video filters.
The filters alter the camera’s color grading with a single tap to match the look of ARRI cinematic cameras. You’re also getting ARRI LogC3 Curve recording capabilities with full 10-bit color depth alongside the ability to record in ARRI’s Wide Gamut 3 color space.
Honor is also offering an optional teleconverter kit with a 500mm lens attachment, and there’s even a hand-held SmallRig camera cage which supports attachment points for additional accessories like grips, LED flashes, and microphones.
Outside of the fancy cameras, Magic9 Pro Max features a 6.8-inch LTPO OLED with a 1,320 x 2,868px resolution and a variable 1-120Hz refresh rate. It brings a global peak brightness of 2,000 nits and a crazy 10,000-nit local peak brightness, which is only achievable on an isolated spot during HDR video playback. Honor is also advertising an updated NanoCrystal Shield display protection with additional silicon nitride layers as well as an anti-reflective coating.
Elsewhere, Magic9 Pro Max boots Honor’s MagicOS 11 based on Android 17 and features IP69K ingress protection.
Magic9 Pro Max comes in Shadow Black, Glacier Silver and Moss Green. Pricing in China starts at CNY 6,499 ($968) for the 12/256GB trim and tops out at CNY 8,499 ($1,266) for the 16GB RAM and 1TB storage version.
Honor has not detailed international availability and pricing yet.
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