A new leak adds more detail to the Honor Magic 9 Pro’s camera setup, covering both the front and rear systems.
According to the leak, the Honor Magic 9 Pro will run on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 (SM8975) chipset and use a 1:1 square selfie camera, which would make it the first Android phone with this format. A square sensor gives you a wider field of view for selfies and vlogging, since you don’t have to rotate the phone to switch between portrait and landscape framing. The leak also says this front camera setup borrows some of what Honor built for the Robot Phone.
Honor Magic 9 Pro rear camera specs
On the rear, the specs match what earlier reports have already covered. You get a 200MP main camera with a 1/1.28-inch sensor, an f/1.57 aperture, and 3-degree OIS, paired with a 50MP ultra-wide lens.
There’s also a 200MP periscope telephoto camera with a 1/1.4-inch sensor and an f/2.6 aperture. This matches what tipster Digital Chat Station shared back in March, when the dual 200MP setup first came up. Honor’s ARRI partnership is also expected to extend to the Pro model, which should bring improvements to color science and video processing.
The square selfie camera itself isn’t new information. Reports in May already pointed to Honor testing a similar sensor for the standard Magic 9, not long after Oppo was tipped to be working on the same format for the Find X10 series. Honor may end up shipping it first.
The tipster behind this leak also mentioned in the comments that Vivo is preparing its own square front camera for next year. That suggests the format could show up across more Chinese phone makers rather than staying limited to one brand.
The Honor Magic 9 series is expected to launch in China around October, so more details should come out as the launch date gets closer.
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