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Honor Magic 6

R10,000
SKU: 3452
Brand: Honor
Category: Mobiles
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CPU: Octa-core (1x3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 3x3.2 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x3.0 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x2.3 GHz Cortex-A520)
RAM: 12GB/16GB
Storage: Adreno 750
Display: LTPO OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR, 1600 nits (HBM), 5000 nits (peak)
Camera: 50MP
OS: Android 14, MagicOS 8

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

Display 7 / 10
Camera 7 / 10
Performance 7 / 10
Battery 7 / 10

PROS

LTPO AMOLED display.
Large battery with fast charging.
Huge storage and RAM.
Five colors option.
Under display fingerprint

CONS

3.5mm jack is unavailable.
External memory card slot.
FM Radio is unavailable.

The Honor Magic 6 brings flagship-tier performance and cutting-edge mobile innovations directly into South Africa’s high-end smartphone market. Starting from roughly ZAR 10,000, it targets demanding tech enthusiasts, mobile gamers, and photography fans who want elite processing speeds and exceptional camera hardware without crossing over into ultra-luxury spending territory.

While ZAR 10,000 serves as the general nationwide baseline for this premium flagship, your final checkout total will inevitably fluctuate based on store-specific promotions, regional distribution costs, or whether you choose an upfront cash purchase over a monthly network contract upgrade.

Where to Buy It in South Africa

Honor has secured a widespread retail footprint for the Magic 6, ensuring you can find it across digital platforms, physical department stores, and major mobile networks nationwide:

Online Storefronts & Tech Specialists: Takealot, Hi Online, Cellucity, and 4U.
Major Retail & Department Chains: Makro, Game, HiFi Corp, and Foschini.
Everyday Value & Apparel Outlets: Mr Price, PEP, and Ackermans.
Mobile Network Providers (Premium Contract Plans): MTN and Chatz Connect.

What Makes the Honor Magic 6 a Flagship Powerhouse?

For around R10,000, the Honor Magic 6 offers an incredible array of industry-leading hardware that sets high standards for daily reliability and multimedia excellence:

Next-Gen Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Power: Under the hood sits the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. This elite processor effortlessly handles heavy 3D mobile gaming, professional video rendering, and multi-window multitasking while optimizing internal power consumption.
Advanced Falcon Camera Setup: Photography is anchored by a high-end 50MP main camera with a bright $f/1.9$ aperture and Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) for perfect low-light and action shots. It is backed up by a powerful 32MP telephoto lens with 2.5x optical zoom and a 50MP ultra-wide lens, ensuring your daytime photos, landscapes, and portraits remain incredibly crisp.
Ultra-Durable NanoCrystal Shield Display: The front face features a gorgeous, quad-curved 6.78-inch LTPO eye-comfort display with a fluid 120Hz refresh rate. Crucially, it is protected by Honor’s advanced NanoCrystal Shield, giving it ten times the drop resistance of standard smartphone glass to survive severe accidental impacts.
Revolutionary 5,450mAh Silicon-Carbon Battery: To completely eliminate battery anxiety during extended South African load-shedding blocks, it carries an ultra-dense 5,450mAh second-generation silicon-carbon battery. It comfortably drives up to two days of heavy use, supported by blazing-fast 66W wired SuperCharge and 50W wireless charging.

Shopping Tip: Because the Honor Magic 6 is a premium tier device, it makes for an exceptional choice on cellular contracts. Check upgrade options with MTN or Chatz Connect, as they frequently wrap the handset into highly competitive 24 or 36-month packages bundled with free promotional accessories like wearable smartwatches or wireless earbuds.

Full Specifications

General

Brand	Honor
Model	Honor Magic 6
Announced	11 January, 2024
Released	18 January, 2024
Status	Available
Price	ZAR 10,000

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.	Bar
Dimensions	161.8 x 75.4 x 8.1 mm (6.37 x 2.97 x 0.32 in)
Weight	199 g or 206 g (7.02 oz)
Colors	Black, Green, Blue, Purple, White

Network

2G Network
3G Network
4G Network
5G Network
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.	Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)	LTPO OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR, 1600 nits (HBM), 5000 nits (peak)
Size	6.78 inches, 111.2 cm2 (~91.2% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution	1264 x 2800 pixels (~453 ppi density)
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.	Jurhino glass

Media

Audio Playback
Video Playback
FM Radio	No
Ring Tones
Loudspeaker

Camera

Main Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.	50 MP, f/1.9, (wide), 1/1.3", Laser AF, PDAF, OIS 32 MP, f/2.4, (telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 2.5x optical zoom 50 MP, f/2.0, 13mm, 122˚ (ultrawide), 1/2.88", AF
Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps, gyro-EIS
Selfie Camera	50 MP, f/2.0, 22mm (wide), 1/2.93", AF
Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps, gyro-EIS

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.	Android 14
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.	MagicOS 8

Hardware

Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.	Qualcomm SM8650-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 (4 nm)
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.	Octa-core (1x3.3 GHz Cortex-X4 & 3x3.2 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x3.0 GHz Cortex-A720 & 2x2.3 GHz Cortex-A520)
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.	Adreno 750
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.	12GB/16GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.	256GB/512GB
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.	No
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.	Fingerprint (under display, optical), Face ID, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, color spectrum

Connectivity

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.	5.3, A2DP, LE, aptX HD
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6/7, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot
USB	USB Type-C 2.0, OTG
Positioning GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.	GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS, BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a)
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Battery

Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.	Li-Po 5450 mAh, non-removable
Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.	66W wired 50W wireless Reverse wireless 5W reverse wired

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