Honor 400 Pro Review – Premium midranger with near flagship performance

The Honor 400 Pro and its sibling the Honor 400 are both the first phones on the planet that pack AI Image to Video generation in collaboration with Google Cloud and also feature a host of upgrades that offer significant camera and performance improvements over its predecessors the Honor 200 Pro and Honor 200.

We managed to get our hands on the new Honor 400 Pro for field testing and took it for a test run in Taiwan – discover our findings on how their latest phone fares in our Honor 400 Pro review!

Honor 400 Pro review – Build and Design

Compared to its predecessor the Honor 200 Pro, our Honor 400 Pro review sample is slightly thinner by 0.1mm at 8.1mm thinness and is slightly shorter but wider with a slightly smaller display along with a noticeably different rear camera housing.

Rather than a central housing that encompasses all its cameras like the pill-shaped design used in the prior Honor 200 Pro, the new Honor 400 Pro features a slightly raised triangular island and three separate camera housings which makes for a cleaner, more contemporary look.

The slight increase in weight is and reduction in screen size are well worth the trade-off as the Honor 400 Pro features a massively upgunned rear triple camera array that now packs a 200MP main sensor over the older model’s 50MP main camera and a much brighter display that maxes out at a peak 5,000 nits versus the older model’s 4,000 nits.

In keeping with current design trends, the Honor 400 Pro’s backplate curves slightly around the edges to meet the gently curved sides and around to meet the AMOLED display itself that also has curved edges all around. From an ergonomic perspective, the phone offers excellent tactility with its curved edges making it comfortable to grip one-handed. 

Of note is the redesigned camera housing with a slightly raised camera island that houses the three cameras in separate housings, each of which is trimmed in silver to lend it a very premium look while adding a measure of protection to each camera. While the 50MP telephoto camera with 3x zoom and ultra wide angle camera are otherwise unaltered, the main camera for the Honor 400 Pro has been massively upgraded to a 200MP sensor for even better detail and image quality.

 

Honor also uses AI to enhance image quality too especially when capturing telephoto zoom to allow for higher quality stills from 15X to 50X zoom which they refer to as AI Super Zoom which we’ll cover in more detail later.

While the left side is otherwise unremarkable, the right features the customary power button and volume rocker with the base featuring a USB-C port as well as a nano SIM tray and a speaker grille. The top portion of the phone features an IR blaster that enables the phone to remotely control other appliances.

Up front, Honor has kitted the 400 Pro out with a quad-curved 6.7-inch AMOLED display with 1,280 x 2,800 pixels resolution, a smooth 120Hz refresh rate and an improved 5,000 nits peak brightness that surpasses its predecessor’s 4,000 nits peak brightness.

The edges and corners are all gently curved which lends it an elegant look. The display is also rated as an Eye Comfort display with 3,840Hz PWM dimming and has a quoted 100 DCI-P3 on top of Netflix and Amazon HDR certification for viewing content on said channels. As a nice touch, Honor has also pre-applied a screen protector to the front of the display.

In a capsule shaped cutout up top, you get a single 50MP camera for selfies paired with a depth sensor and just above it in a tiny slit for the earpiece that also doubles as the speaker to create a stereo pair with the second one at the base of the phone. The bottom quadrant of the display also has an under-glass fingerprint reader.

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The phone also has a generous array of accessories thrown in for free in the box. Our Honor 400 Pro review sample not only comes with the obligatory USB-C cable is a soft TPU casing and a 100W fast charger on top of the usual SIM eject pin and warranty paperwork.

In Malaysia, the phone can be acquired in a shade of Tidal Blue, Midnight Black and in the case of our Honor 400 Pro review sample, a shade of Lunar Grey that works out to be a satin silver finish that looks both classy and tasteful in equal measure embellished with the Honor logogram in the corner. 

The finish itself also has the beneficial property of repelling fingerprints nicely. Overall build quality is excellent and the phone looks exceptionally premium befitting a flagship phone much like their Magic7 Pro and competing devices. Better yet, the Honor 400 Pro even has a Swiss 5-stars Premium Performance Certification of Drop and Crush Resistance from SGS, attesting to its durability to resist the usual drops and nicks encountered in day to day use.

Honor 400 Pro Review- Performance and Benchmarks

The Honor 400 Pro is well appointed for a midrange phone with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset that elevates it to near-flagship status. Paired with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset is 12GB LPDDR5X RAM and 512GB of UFS 3.1 storage. 

For Malaysia, Honor is only issuing one storage/RAM configuration which is what we have for review. Here’s how our Honor 400 Pro review sample measures up:

 

Price	RM2,699
Display	6.7-inch AMOLED Honor AI Eye Comfort display, 1,280 x 2,800 pixels, 120Hz refresh rate, 3,840Hz PWM dimming, 100% DCI-P3, Netflix HDR, YouTube DHR, Amazon HDR certification
Processor	Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
OS	Android 15 w/ Magic OS 9
Memory	12GB LPDDR5X  RAM / 512GB UFS 3.1 storage
Cameras	200MP F/1.9 Ultra Clear AI camera w/ OIS + EIS, 50MP F/2.4 Super Zoom camera w/ 3x optical zoom + OIS, 12MP F/2.2 ultra wide w/ autofocus [rear] / 50MP f/2.0 w/ depth sensor [front]
Battery	6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery w/ 100W wired charging, 50W wireless, reverse wireless
Size/Weight	160.8 x 76.1 x 8.1mm/ 205g

Launched in 2023, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 may be a bit long in the tooth in 2025 but is still more than able to give a respectable accounting of itself. Short of much pricier flagships with the current generation Snapdragon 8 Elite, the Honor 400 Pro is more than able to handle any task expected of a smartphone.

Running under the hood of our Honor 400 Pro review sample is Android 15 with their own MagicOS 9.0 firmware that adds in a number of AI-enhanced capabilities beyond the increasingly common Circle to Search with Google and Google Gemini.

Honor has beefed up their RAM Turbo virtual RAM this time around and increased the amount of virtual RAM to 12GB that is assigned off the onboard 512GB storage though there’s no way to disable this if you’re short on space. In synthetic benchmarks, our Honor 400 Pro review sample scored:

 

3D Mark Steel Nomad Light	1,476
3D Mark Steel Nomad Light Unlimited	1,437
3D Mark Solar Bay	7,691
3D Mark Solar Bay Unlimited	7,547
3D Mark Wild Life Extreme	4,619
3D Mark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited	4,573
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2,110
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	6,381
Geekbench 6 OpenCL	13,014
Geekbench 6 Vulkan	14,472
Geekbench 6 AI (CPU)	3,775
Geekbench 6 AI (GPU)	1,336
PCMark Work 3.0	25,408
PCMark Battery Life	16 hours 34 mins

Compared to the Snapdragon 8s Gen 3 used in the older Honor 200 Pro from 2024 , the flagship-grade Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 used in our Honor 400 Pro review unit is a more powerful beast altogether, easily outpacing the older phone in almost every benchmark for single, multicore and graphics performance. In day-to-day tasks, our Honor 400 Pro review unit did not disappoint, tackling web browsing, gaming and video editing on CapCut in a smooth fashion.

There’s still plenty of life left in the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and the Honor 400 Pro was able to tackle everything expected of a phone from fast app swapping, editing photos and video, gaming and social media, helped significantly by its fast 12GB LPDDR5X and 12GB of virtual RAM Turbo.

One of the benefits of using a slightly older flagship chipset is that it’s already a known quantity with all the kinks worked out which was borne in the Steel Nomad Light Stress test which saw an 80.3% stability rate with an initial slight drop but otherwise stable, consistent performance afterwards and a base loop score of 1,399 and lowest loop score of 1,123 while keeping temperatures between 42℃ and 48℃. While rather warm, it isn’t to the point that it makes holding the phone uncomfortable.  

Another key draw to the Honor 400 Pro is that it’s the first phone in the world to feature Google’s AI Image to Video feature baked in, enabling the phone to convert stills into short 5-second animated videos. 

 

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Accessible via the phone’s own gallery app the AI Image to Video feature is brilliant at animating stills, bringing people and scenes to life in a realistic fashion though the results of what it generates are somewhat unpredictable with a tendency towards subjects smiling and waving.

It’s also limited to just five seconds but it’s a jaw-droppingly impressive feature to have on the phone. At present, you’re able to generate 10 free videos a day for a limited time though there’s no word on if or when this policy will change.

Honor’s other AI features like AI Cutout and AI Eraser are also present on the phone for free indefinitely to tweak images to taste by removing unwanted parts of the background or to delete backgrounds.

The 6.7-inch inch AMOLED screen is among the best on test with excellent colour rendition and detail with good clarity under direct sunlight when dialled to maximum while offering smooth animations when navigating the menus.

The screen is surprisingly able to go as low as 1.5 nits minimum brightness which comes handy when reading in the dark and the screen also offers their Honor Eye Care mode as well as 3,840Hz PWM dimming to ensure reduced eye fatigue when in use. It also supports Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Prime certification for viewing HDR content too. 

The stereo speakers offer good volume and a fair amount of detail for movies and music. Even better, it has a selectable 200% volume mode for when you really need to rock the house which is loud enough to hear even in a busy restaurant without distortion.

On paper, our Honor 400 Pro review sample has a 6,000mAh silicon-carbon battery with 100W wired charging and 50W wireless charging. Endurance is excellent seeing the large size of the battery and even with the hectic pace of Computex 2025 in Taiwan with heavy camera usage and acting as a wifi hotspot along with modest use of social media, it was comfortably able to last into the evening before requiring a top-up. 

In PC Mark’s battery life test ,it managed a respectable 16 hours and 34 minutes, almost 4 hours more than what its predecessor the Honor 200 Pro managed primarily on account of its larger battery. Charging it from dead zero with the bundled 100W charger is a relatively fast affair with 45 minutes to or so to get a full charge.

From a performance perspective, there’s lots to love and little to quibble about the Honor 400 Pro as the phone offers excellent performance, more so for what you pay for.

Honor 400 Pro Review – Cameras

The Honor 400 Pro enjoys significant upgrades over its predecessor especially in regards to the main camera. Where its predecessor only maxed out with a triple camera array with a 50MP main camera, the 400 Pro retains a similar setup but bumps up the main camera to a massive 200MP f/1.9 camera with a 1/1.4-inch sensor with optical image stabilisation. 

Paired with the main 200MP snapper is a 50MP telephoto camera capable of up to 3x lossless zoom and a 12MP ultra wide angle camera. The camera also leverages AI for clearer image quality when you kick in 15x all the way to its maximum 50x digital zoom.

This camera setup also allows for up to 4K@60fps video capture with up to 10x digital zoom for videos. Honor also adds in their Studio Harcourt filters that debuted last year to create more artistic portrait shots for the rear camera.

Up front, the phone has a dual camera setup with a primary 50MP camera and a secondary depth sensor alongside it capable of capturing stills and up to 4K@30fps video. 

When put to the test, the main rear camera was able to serve up great shots with colours that veer slightly on the vibrant side of the spectrum with good detail based on the default Vivid settings for both daytime and low light scenarios all the way out to about 6x hybrid zoom.

Beyond that, shots are still rather good though details get softer with the AI kicking in to sharpen and clean up images beyond 15X all the way to 50X digital zoom. Results for stills between the 15X to 50X mark vary with it doing its best work with buildings, signage and static scenery rather than faces or moving, living subjects.

Videos are just as good in daylight and low light scenarios on account of OIS with good colour rendition and detail on both the main and telephoto cameras though you get the best results if you stick to below 3X for smooth, judder free footage.

The large 50MP camera with its depth sensor perched on the front ensures detailed selfies with accurate skin tones with beautifully blurred backgrounds.

Should you buy the Honor 400 Pro?

The Honor 400 Pro blends an excellent Eyesafe AMOLED display that’s easy on the eyes, good performance from a flagship chipset, a nice set of cameras and solid battery life in a durable, IP68/IP69 rated chassis.

Add in a free bundled charger and casing, and you have a tempting bargain for those seeking a midrange phone with near-flagship performance and cameras.

Honor 400 Pro review unit courtesy of Honor Malaysia. For more details and to purchase please visit https://www.honor.com/my/phones/honor-400-pro/buy/