Honor announced the new Magic 8 series, including the Magic 8 Pro, with a dedicated AI button for its proprietary AI assistant.
The Magic 8 and Magic 8 Pro are successors to the Magic 7 series, launched in early 2025, and feature a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 SoC.
The devices also utilize "GPU-NPU Heterogeneous AI", where the graphics processor and neural processing unit work together to transform low-res and low-FPS gameplay into high-res content.
Honor claims the phones can transform low-res and low-FPS gameplay into high-res content.
Honor’s new Magic 8 devices bring strong specs, but no support for Google Gemini.
Author’s summary: Honor’s Magic 8 series features AI enhancements.