After two weeks of using the Honor 600 Pro as my daily phone, I’m genuinely surprised by how close it feels to a true flagship. In a market where many “midrange” devices look great on paper but fall short in real-world use, this one stands out with a premium design, top-tier performance, and—most importantly—a camera setup that’s hard to beat for the price.
Honor has clearly repositioned the 600 Pro as something more ambitious than its predecessor. It arrives with a fresh look compared to the Honor 400 Pro, a large 6,400 mAh battery built for long days away from a charger, and flagship-level muscle thanks to the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The result is a phone that feels fast, polished, and confident, even when you’re doing heavy multitasking, shooting lots of photos, or navigating on the go.
But the real story here is imaging. The Honor 600 Pro borrows a triple-camera approach inspired by Honor’s higher-end lineup and upgrades nearly every key area over the previous generation. You’re getting a 200 MP primary camera with a large 1/1.4-inch sensor and an f/1.9 aperture, backed by CIPA 6.5 image stabilization—hardware that helps reduce blur and improves sharpness, especially when lighting gets tricky. Alongside that main camera is a 50 MP telephoto lens with 3.5x optical zoom, plus a 12 MP ultrawide that also doubles as a macro camera.
To see what the cameras could really do, I took the Honor 600 Pro on a trip to Malaysia and used it across a wide mix of scenes—bright daytime streets, nighttime city shots, portraits, and landscapes. After capturing hundreds of photos, it became clear that this phone’s camera performance is the reason it deserves attention.
In good light, the 200 MP main camera delivers exactly what people want from a modern camera phone: punchy but controlled color, strong detail, and images that look vibrant without becoming cartoonish. Photos come out rich, with balanced saturation, natural-looking shadows, and a dynamic range that avoids blowing out highlights too aggressively. There’s also a slightly cooler tone to the overall look, which gives many shots a clean, crisp finish.
Low-light performance is mostly impressive, too. Night scenes hold onto color better than you might expect in this price segment, and the camera can pull out plenty of detail when conditions aren’t ideal. That said, when light levels drop too far, the phone can struggle, and results can become more average—still usable, but not as consistently excellent as when there’s at least some ambient light to work with.
The 50 MP telephoto camera is another highlight. Honor has increased the optical zoom from 3x on the previous model to 3.5x here, and that extra reach is genuinely useful. At 3.5x, photos show strong detail on distant subjects, helped by optical image stabilization and an 80 mm focal length that’s well-suited for portraits and travel photography. Even more interesting is how well it holds up at 7x in many situations, producing surprisingly clean images for a hybrid zoom range. Push past 10x, though, and the quality drop becomes much more obvious, with less detail and more processing artifacts.
Portrait lovers will likely appreciate the telephoto lens, too. Edge detection is solid, background blur looks natural, and the overall rendering is pleasing without looking overly artificial.
The 12 MP ultrawide is the most “midrange” part of the camera system. It’s perfectly fine for landscapes, architecture, and group shots, with decent detail and color science that matches the main camera reasonably well. But it doesn’t capture the same level of fine detail as the primary sensor, so it’s best treated as a useful secondary option rather than the star of the show. As a macro camera, it does a nice job—getting as close as 2.5 cm—producing sharp, colorful close-ups that look great for food, flowers, and small objects.
On the front, the 50 MP selfie camera delivers crisp shots with strong raw detail and a similar slightly cooler tone to the rear cameras. If you care about clear selfies with plenty of texture and definition, it performs confidently.
Overall, the Honor 600 Pro feels like a camera phone designed to compete above its class. The ultrawide camera is the weakest link, but the combination of a strong 200 MP main sensor and a capable 50 MP telephoto lens makes this one of the most compelling options for mobile photography at its price. With pricing around £799 under early offers, it’s an especially attractive pick for anyone who wants near-flagship camera versatility without paying full flagship money.
