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If you need the best camera on a cellphone, you would possibly count on to need to pay over the odds for it, however two new Android phones hitting UK shops right this moment might match the invoice whereas costing tons of much less than the competitors.

Honor has introduced the Honor 400 and 400 Pro, which each sport the similar 200MP most important camera sensor, a megapixel spec that matches the £1,249 Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra‘s most important camera. But Honor’s new phones value £399.99 and £699.99 respectively, which means they might be a cheaper strategy to get maintain of a cellphone with a robust most important camera.

Honor says the massive 1/1.4-inch lens makes use of AI to seize clearer photographs and has optical and electrical image stabilisation tech to make sure you don’t get blurry photographs. The firm says it may well even deal with 50x zoom, although you additionally get a devoted 50MP 3x optical zoom lens and a 12MP ultra-wide lens that will also be used for macro pictures.

Just like the Honor Magic 7 Pro that got here out earlier in the 12 months, these two phones are stuffed to the gills with AI options and guarantees. I didn’t a lot take care of the 7 Pro’s use of AI when zooming previous 30x, the place it artificially fills in particulars that in any other case aren’t there.

The get together trick of the Honor 400 and 400 Pro is an AI software from Google referred to as ‘AI Image to Video’, “which enables users to bring static photos to life as dynamic videos”, in accordance with Honor. These are the first phones to get a function that may seemingly come to different Android phones quickly.

You can take a picture after which flip it into a 5 second video utilizing Google AI, which requires an web connection. But as reported by The Verge, this isn’t a free function that Honor 400 consumers can take pleasure in without end. It’s solely free for the first two months of possession, and you’ll solely make 10 videos per day. Details of how Google will finish up charging you for this service aren’t identified, however the software might turn into out there to Google Gemini subscribers.

Elsewhere, the 400 Pro has spectacular specs with a massive 5,300mAh battery, 512GB storage, 12GB RAM and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset that powered a number of high-end Android phones that got here out in 2024. It may also fast charge at zippy 100W speeds, providing you with 50 p.c charge in quarter-hour, in accordance with Honor. There’s even industry-best IP68/69 mud and water resistance.

You additionally get ‘AI Eye Comfort Display’ and ‘AI Defocus Eyecare’ smarts to keep the 6.7-inch AMOLED screen from inflicting your peepers an excessive amount of pressure, plus an ‘AI Circadian Night Display’ setting to stop the blue gentle from disrupting your sleep.

All this appears like we must always stop our phones a lot, doesn’t it? But it’s good to see Honor serious about these items, as not all phones have such granular show controls.

Most impressively is Honor’s promise of six years of Android updates and 6 years of security updates for each the Honor 400 and 400 Pro, matching the Magic 7 Pro and just one 12 months short of Google and Samsung’s promise for a lot of of their phones. It’s notable that the £399.99 Honor 400 will get six years of updates, one of the least expensive phones on the market with such long help together with Samsung’s £399 Galaxy A36, which additionally guarantees six years.

The Honor 400 boasts a 5,300mAh battery like the Pro with barely slower charging and a smaller 6.55-inch show that’s flat in comparison with the curved one on the Pro. You’ll additionally get the Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 chip with 8GB RAM and IP65 safety.

Both phones are 5G suitable, as you’d count on, and go on sale right this moment. Honor has secured impressively vast availability too, so you’ll be able to buy it from EE, O2, Three, Vodafone, Tesco Mobile, Argos, Currys, Amazon and Very, in addition to immediately from Honor.