SpecEagle review · Honor

Honor Magic3 review: Snapdragon 888 flagship with curved AMOLED and 50W wireless.

SpecEagle Editorial·Aug 2021·$1000
Overall
84/100
Class rank
#2 of 9
Tier
Flagship
Buy?
At the right price
The verdict, up front

Honor returns to flagship.

Magic3 was Honor's first true post-Huawei flagship — Snapdragon 888, a curved 1.5K OLED, 50W wireless charging and a dedicated 64 MP monochrome cam. The signal that Honor was back as a flagship player.

01Display

86/100

86/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2021.

TypeOLED, dual-curved, 120Hz
Size6.76 inches
Resolution1344 x 2772 px

02Camera

82/100

82/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2021.

Main50 MP Sony IMX700, f/1.9
Ultrawide13 MP, 126 deg
B&W64 MP monochrome
Selfie13 MP + ToF

03Performance

90/100

At 90/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2021 — 7 points above the cohort average.

ChipsetSnapdragon 888 (5nm)
GPUAdreno 660

04Battery

84/100

84/100 puts it above the 80-point average for flagship phones of 2021.

Capacity4600 mAh
Charging66W wired, 50W wireless

05Build

84/100

84/100 puts it above the 82-point average for flagship phones of 2021.

What works
  • Curved 1.5K 120Hz OLED + Snapdragon 888
  • 66W wired + 50W wireless charging
  • 64 MP dedicated monochrome cam
What doesn't
  • Camera bump huge
  • Magic UI 5 still settling
  • No 3.5 mm jack
Cross-shop it against
iQOO 11
$650 · score 90/100

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 9-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .