Honor Magic9 Pro Max with 200MP ARRI camera and SD 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme chip is here
The Honor Magic9 Pro Max is here, Honor’s new top-of-the-line smartphone and Android flagship for 2026. It features a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor, dual 200MP cameras, and a powerful 8,800mAh Si-C battery with 100W wired fast charging and 80W wireless fast charging. Thanks to Honor’s new partnership with German camera manufacturer ARRI, it also positions itself as a professional video camera.
The Honor Magic9 Pro Max’s camera setup is led by a new 200-megapixel main camera with a 23mm focal length, a 1/1.28-inch sensor, and an f/1.6 aperture. It’s complemented by a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto lens with an 85mm equivalent focal length, a 1/1.4-inch sensor, and 3.7x optical zoom. The third camera is a 50-megapixel 12mm ultrawide camera.
Both the main and telephoto lenses feature CIPA 8.0 gimbal-level image stabilization. All three sensors benefit from ARRI image technology and offer ARRI color profiles and cinematic video filters.
The filters alter the camera’s color correction with a single tap to emulate the look of ARRI cinema cameras. Additionally, you get ARRI LogC3 Curve recording capabilities with full 10-bit color depth, as well as the ability to record in the ARRI Wide Gamut 3 color space.
Honor Magic9 Pro Max with 500mm teleconverter kit
Honor also offers an optional teleconverter kit with a 500mm lens attachment, and there’s even a handy SmallRig camera cage that provides attachment points for additional accessories such as grips, LED flashes, and microphones.
Aside from its high-quality cameras, the Honor Magic9 Pro Max features a 6.8-inch LTPO OLED display with a resolution of 1,320 x 2,868 pixels and a variable refresh rate of 1–120 Hz. It achieves a global peak brightness of 2,000 nits and an impressive local peak brightness of 10,000 nits, although this is only reached at a single point during HDR video playback. Honor also touts an improved NanoCrystal Shield screen protector with additional silicon nitride layers and an anti-reflective coating.
The operating system is Honor’s MagicOS 11, based on Android 17. It also features water and dust resistance according to the IP69K standard.
Prices
The Honor Magic9 Pro Max is available in Shadow Black, Glacier Silver, and Moss Green. Prices in China start at 6,499 CNY (852 euros/968 US dollars) for the 12 GB RAM/256 GB storage variant and go up to 8,499 CNY (1,114 euros/1,266 US dollars) for the 16 GB RAM/1 TB storage version.
It is not yet known whether the Honor smartphone will be sold internationally. There is also no information yet on pricing.
