Flagship Honor Magic9 Pro Max seen at F1 Bahrain Grand Prix at Sepang

Honor’s next flagship phone, the Honor Magic9 Pro Max that has launched in China made a rather unexpected appearance at the race track during the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. As part of an official teaser, Honor Malaysia also released several images captured with the phone. The test shots are impressive as they were able to capture crisp images of the fast moving cars running around the track.

What is the Honor Magic9 Pro Max?

While exact specifics of the Honor Magic9 Pro Max for Malaysia, in particular its RAM and storage configuration remain undetermined at the time of writing, its other specifications were made public during its official launch in China.

The successor to last year’s Honor Magic8 Pro, the new Honor Magic9 Pro Max is a flagship phone in every way, featuring a 6.8-inch LTPO OLED display with 1,320 x 2,868 pixels resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of 10,000 nits that’s also protected by an Honor Anti-scratch Nanocrystal Shield coating. Powering the phone is the latest Snapdragon 9 Elite Extreme Gen 6 paired with up to 16GB RAM and up to 1TB of storage running Android 17 and MagicOS 11.

For imaging, the Honor Magic9 Pro Max packs an impressive triple camera setup built around a 200MP f/1.6 main camera with OIS and a 200MP f/2.6 telephoto camera with 3.5X optical zoom with both featuring a CIPA 8.0 stabilisation rating.

Rounding things off on the rear is a 50MP f/2.0 ultra wide angle camera. The front hosts a single 55MP f/2.0 camera with a TOF sensor. Keeping the phone powered is an 8,800mAh silicon-carbon battery with 100W wired and 80W wireless charging. The phone also has an IP68, IP69 and IP69K dust and water resistance rating. In China, prices start from RMB6,499 which works out to about RM3,959. 

At present, there’s no official Malaysia pricing or launch dates yet for the Honor Magic9 Pro Max but we’ll keep you posted.