Honor is taking the stage in Beijing today, September 28, to officially unveil its Magic9 flagship series, nearly a month earlier than last year's Magic8 lineup arrived. Announced via the company's Weibo account, the launch is the latest chapter in a series Honor says marks a full decade since the original Magic phone's debut.

ARRI partnership puts cinema cameras at the center

The biggest story of the Magic9 series is its imaging system, co-developed with German cinema-camera maker ARRI. The company has confirmed a dual-200MP rear setup: a 200MP main sensor (1/1.28-inch, f/1.57) and a 200MP telephoto (1/1.4-inch, f/2.6). Honor is bringing professional filmmaking color science to phones with native ARRI LogC3 encoding, ARRI Wide Gamut 3 and ARRI Looks presets that let users apply cinematic color styles while shooting.
Honor has also introduced a Photography Master Kit with two telephoto extenders, including a 500mm teleconverter and a thumb-sized 200mm extender measuring just 81mm and weighing 88g. The teasers show a large rectangular camera module with three cutouts, an LED flash and the ARRI logo, in a new Moss Green colorway.

Three models with bigger batteries

The lineup is expected to include the standard Magic9, the Magic9 Pro Max and a Magic9 Super Edition. Leaker Digital Chat Station reports the Magic9 will pack a 6.37-inch 1.5K 120Hz flat display, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and an 8,000mAh battery with 80W wired and 50W wireless charging. A 55MP square-format selfie camera would make it among the first Android phones with a square front sensor.
The Magic9 Pro Max is tipped to step up to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 with an 8,800mAh battery, while the Super Edition could headline the family with an 11,000mAh cell and active fan cooling in an 8.1mm, 227g body. Honor will ship the series with MagicOS 11, its latest Android skin.

Pricing and what comes next

 Honor CEO Li Jian has already revealed pricing for the 16GB RAM and 512GB storage variant of the standard Magic9: CNY 6,499 as the regular price, CNY 5,999 as a 10th-anniversary offering, and CNY 5,499 for buyers eligible under China's national subsidy program. Pre-orders in China are already open, and full pricing and availability for the Pro Max and Super Edition are expected to be confirmed at today's event. International pricing and launch dates have not yet been announced.