The new flagship debuts Honor’s Arri partnership, adding LogC3 capture, 14 Arri Look LUTs, and APV codec support.
Honor launched the Magic 9 Pro Max in China today, its first flagship since announcing a partnership with camera company Arri. The phone pairs a redesigned camera island with a 200-megapixel main sensor, a 3.5x telephoto at the same resolution, and a 50-megapixel ultrawide. Honor also fitted an 8,800mAh battery with up to 40 percent silicon content.
The camera island draws on Arri’s three-lens turret design from the 1937 Arriflex 35, complete with a knurled texture around the main lens. Arri contributed Arri LogC3 capture, 14 preset Arri Look LUTs, access to its wider LUT library, and APV 10-bit 4:2:2 codec support. A cinema-grade directional microphone targets video recording.
Handset makers now treat professional color pipelines as a differentiator, so mobile teams that shoot or edit video gain Arri LogC3 and LUT workflows without dedicated cinema hardware. The 8,800mAh battery and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip point to longer shoots and on-device processing, though Honor skipped 8K60 and 4K240 recording despite the silicon.
Honor confirmed an international launch is coming but has not set a date or pricing outside China. The Magic 9 series ships in China today, and the Magic 9 Pro Max is the first device to show the Arri partnership’s reach beyond the Arri-inspired camera island design.
What matters
- Honor launched the Magic 9 Pro Max in China with a 200-megapixel main camera and 8,800mAh battery.
- Arri LogC3 support and Look LUTs give mobile video teams a cinema pipeline on a phone.
- Honor confirmed an international launch but has not set a date or pricing outside China.
Why it matters
Honor confirmed an international launch but has not set a date or pricing outside China.
This GenAI News article was prepared in original wording using reporting and materials published by The Verge. Source reference: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1001219/honor-magic-9-pro-max-arri-cameras-snapdragon-battery-design-china.
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