Honor has rocked up in the UK with the 600 series, stuffing flagship-ish AI toys into cheaper phones and launched the Honor 600 series.
The company claims the range sets a new mark for the premium mid-range mob, which is marketing speak for less wallet damage.
Despite the hardware, the Honor 600 series keeps a slim design with a seamless unibody build. It has a satin-finish metal frame, amd narrow bezels .
Inside sits a 6,400mAh battery, the largest yet in the series. Honor reckons it can manage up to two days of use, helped by an AI Battery Scheduling Engine that fiddles with power use.
The battery supports up to 1,600 charge cycles, which should stop the thing turning into a desk ornament too quickly.
Both models get 80W wired charging, while the Pro adds 50W wireless charging and up to 27W reverse charging. Honor is pushing flagship-grade cameras into the sub-flagship space, which is where the spec-sheet arms race gets silly.
The main snapper is a 200MP Ultra-Clear Night Camera based on a large 1/1.4-inch sensor. Honor says it improves low-light shots with better light sensitivity and more detailed images.
Supporting cameras include a 12MP ultra-wide lens, a colour temperature sensor and a 50MP front camera. The Pro model adds a 50MP periscope telephoto lens with up to 120x zoom for people who photograph the moon badly.
At the heart of the series is AI Image-to-Video 2.0. Honor calls it an industry-first unified multi-modal video generation system, which means it turns pictures and prompts into short clips.
Users can combine up to three images with natural language prompts to create cinematic clips lasting three to eight seconds.
There is control over opening and ending frames, plus templates for instant stylised videos. The 6.57-inch display offers up to 8,000 nits peak brightness, a 120Hz refresh rate and advanced dimming.
It is designed for clarity and eye comfort, adapting to bright outdoor conditions and other lighting headaches.
The Honor 600 uses the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, while the Pro gets Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. Honor says the chips bring stronger CPU and GPU performance for multitasking, gaming and general responsiveness.
Honor has thrown in the Pad X8b, a compact smart tablet aimed at all-day entertainment. It has a 10,100mAh battery and promises 21 hours of online video playback.
The tablet has an 11-inch, 1920 x 1200 Honor Eye Comfort FullView Display to reduce eye fatigue. Honor’s quad-speaker Honor Sound tech handles audio. The Pad X8b weighs 499g and features a casing made of premium metals.
The tablet runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 680 processor, which should handle everyday tasks. MagicOS 10.0 powers the pad and brings productivity features, along with readiness for AI use.
Honor claims its tablet range grew 114 per cent year-on-year after launches during 2025 and 2026. It is expanding its Honor Choice range in the UK as part of the Honor Alpha Plan.
The company calls Honor Choice an exclusive every-scenario ecosystem built with industry partners. Honor claims Choice shipments grew 800 per cent year-on-year, which is the sort of number that makes PowerPoint decks sweat.
The range covers sports and health tracking, audio, home devices, AI and robotics products.
- Honor Choice Watch 2 Epic has a dual-case design, precision GPS and outdoor navigation.
- Honor Choice Watch 2 Pro has a square design and standalone GNSS for more serious tracking.
- Honor Choice Mousebuds Pro combine a compact mouse with semi-open earbuds using ANC Technology.
The mouse has a 1,000mAh battery for up to 30 days of use and charges via USB-C.
The earbuds offer up to seven hours of use, which should cover most train journeys and several tedious meetings.
Honor Choice AI Note is pitched as the world’s slimmest AI note recorder. At 2.89mm thick, the magnetic card can sit in a wallet or on a phone for one-touch recording.
It offers 24 hours of battery life, transcribes more than 130 languages and turns meetings into summaries and mind maps.
Honor says it recognises different speakers and syncs five hours of audio to a phone in 30 seconds.
The Honor 600 Pro costs £899.99 (€1,042), with a £200 (€232) discount available from the Honor Estore. The Honor 600 with 256GB storage costs £549.99 (€637), while the 512GB model costs £599.99 (€695). The Honor Pad X8b costs £189.99 (€220).
The Honor Choice Watch 2 Pro costs £129.99 (€151), the Choice Mousebuds cost £79.99 (€93) and the Choice AI Note costs £129.99 (€151).
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