As a photographer, I’ve tried and examined no less than 60 of the very best digital camera telephones over the previous couple of years, and it normally takes quite a bit to impress me. With that mentioned, I have been a fan of Honor tech for a number of years now, and this firm ought to critically be in your radar if it is not already. Honor’s newest digital camera cellphone (introduced right now) is the Honor 400 Professional 5G, and I am actually enthusiastic about this collection and its industry-leading AI pictures improvements.
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In full honesty, I solely unboxed this cellphone a number of hours in the past, however within the brief time that I’ve spent taking pictures with the Honor 400 Professional, I am satisfied it is set to be among the finest digital camera telephones of 2025. I had fairly excessive expectations already for this newest flagship, on condition that the final Honor digital camera cellphone I used gave my Samsung S24 Extremely an actual run for its cash, in a digital camera cellphone shootout capturing gorgeous Slovenian Alps.
That is not the primary time an Honor digital camera cellphone impressed me both, because the Honor 200 Professional collection (which is endorsed by world-famous photographer, Rankin) additionally put up a terrific battle in opposition to my Samsung when photographing museum artefacts and London landscapes.
Check out the pattern pictures I captured under utilizing the Honor 400 Professional, which you should purchase instantly from Honor proper now for £699.99 (512GB mannequin).
Let’s speak a bit about what makes this AI digital camera cellphone so spectacular. The Honor 400 Professional comes geared up with a high quality 200MP Extremely-clear AI essential digital camera proper out of the field, and identical to its siblings, this cellphone makes use of a complicated portrait algorithm, plus Studio Harcourt filters that can assist you seize professional-looking portrait photographs with no enhancing needed (I truly noticed a stay demo of Rankin taking pictures with these filters utilizing the Honor 200 Professional collection).
As well as, you get superb macro and tremendous macro high quality because of the 12MP ultra-wide and macro digital camera settings for taking pictures close-up photographs of bugs, flowers, or on this case, cactus spikes, as you’ll be able to see within the examples above. For issues a bit additional away, Honor has developed an industry-leading AI tremendous zoom function that allows you to zoom in as much as 50x, and it makes use of AI to reinforce the readability and fill in any gaps to provide a transparent telephoto shot.
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Honor is clearly making an attempt to compete with larger smartphone rivals like Apple and Samsung with these digital camera options, and I like that it is aiming to make tech extra reasonably priced too. I am additionally the proud proprietor of the Honor MagicPad 2 pill (the primary product I ever bought after reviewing it), and the primary cause that I like this pill a lot will not be solely its stunning OLED display, AI options, and glorious efficiency, however the shockingly budget-friendly value at solely £399. I even most popular this pill over the Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Extremely, and for me, that is actually saying one thing.
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New Honor options I can not wait to check out
The Honor 400 Professional appears to be kicking issues up a notch, and has options I’ve by no means used earlier than – together with a brand new ‘AI Picture to Video ’ function utilising Google Cloud, which explores completely different potentialities of picture era when utilizing the HD Shifting Picture (stay pictures) function. There’s additionally a brilliant cool ‘Shifting Picture Collage’ function, which is a first-of-its-kind software that permits customers to mix 2-9 shifting pictures and seamlessly sew them collectively right into a video collage.
Dangle tight for my upcoming Honor 400 Professional assessment, which needs to be touchdown within the subsequent few days. For now, check out the Honor offers I’ve rounded up under.
