The HONOR 600 Pro has been with me for about a week now, and it’s the most serious phone HONOR has put out in the number series so far, which you can tell from how it’s priced.
The Golden White colourway on the precision-carved unibody is clean and understated. The matte finish doesn’t show fingerprints the way glossy backs do, and the whole thing feels well put together without trying to announce itself. At 7.8mm, it sits in the hand without feeling like it’s weighing you down, which is even more impressive once you know a 7,000mAh battery is in there.
The triple IP rating is worth understanding properly, because “IP68, IP69, and IP69K” reads like a spec-sheet flourish and it’s actually more than that. IP68 covers submersion. IP69 and IP69K cover high-pressure, high-temperature water jets, which is a harder standard to meet than the submersion test, and one that most phones don’t bother with. At this price, it’s good to know what you’re getting.
The 6.57-inch AMOLED display runs at up to 120Hz and hits 8,000 nits at peak brightness. You’ll know when you need that: step outside on a clear afternoon and the screen stays readable without you having to tilt it away from the light or shade it with your hand. Sunlight Mode handles that well. The 3,840Hz PWM dimming is less obvious in the first week, but it’s what reduces the low-level flicker that makes your eyes tired after a long session. It’s one of those things that’s hard to notice until you go back to a phone that doesn’t have it.
The main camera is a 200MP sensor on a 1/1.4-inch chip, paired with a 50MP periscope telephoto. Both have OIS, and both are CIPA-certified, which means the stabilisation numbers are independently tested rather than just claimed by HONOR. Handheld shots in low light, especially on the telephoto, come out sharper than you’d expect at that focal length. In good daylight the main sensor is reliable and consistent. The 12MP ultra-wide is the weakest part of the system and shows it in harder conditions, though it holds up fine when the light is cooperating.
The 50MP front camera does what it needs to. One thing HONOR doesn’t make obvious: the punch-hole setup here replaces an extended pill cutout with a depth sensor that earlier HONOR devices used for more secure facial recognition. That’s a step back, even if it’s a small one.
Battery is where the 600 Pro makes its most straightforward argument. The 7,000mAh silicon-carbon cell is the largest HONOR has used in the number series, bigger than the 600 Lite’s 6,520mAh and bigger than most of what it’s competing against. Two days of moderate use between charges is realistic. Load shedding hasn’t gone anywhere, and a phone that genuinely lasts longer is more useful here than marginal camera improvements. When you do need to charge, 80W wired and 50W wireless charging are both fast enough that it doesn’t feel like a wait.
The Snapdragon 8 Elite and 12GB of RAM keep things moving. Nothing has felt slow or sticky in a week of normal use. MagicOS 10 runs on Android 16 and looks a lot like iOS, more than HONOR tends to make explicit. Magic Capsule is a take on Dynamic Island. The AI features are more prominent in the branding than they are in everyday use. The six-year software support commitment is the thing most worth holding onto when you’re thinking about long-term value.
A week tells you how the phone feels day to day. Camera consistency at night over time, how the software holds up across months of updates, and how much the battery has degraded a year from now are things that need longer. What this week confirms is that the hardware is solid, the display works in our conditions, and the battery is the right priority for this market.