It’s just about time for another smartphone leak, and this one is Honor’s (reported) X80 Pro Max. Don’t be too concerned if you’ve never heard of it. The company has previously launched X-series handsets, sometimes with the ‘Pro’ appended. This one will be the first to steal Apple’s naming convention use the ‘Max’ label as well.
In leaked images, posted by users of China’s Weibo social network, Honor’s new hardware certainly looks premium enough. It also looks like a chunky bugger, probably because Honor is supposed to be sticking a massive battery inside the X80 Pro Max.
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How massive? Try 11,000mAh, which is gigantic for any phone. The (still unsized but probably 6.79in) 2,788 x 1,280px display will apparently run in front of a Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 processor, and there will be 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage inside this thing. How, exactly, it’ll justify the Pro Max tag isn’t clear.
But the phone’s camera has clearly taken centre stage, so perhaps that’s it. Or, at least, we hope there’s something impressive in there to match the name. The Honor X70 didn’t go especially hard on the photography front, and this rumoured phone looks more incremental than revolutionary. Perhaps Honor is just talking about the battery being ‘Max’.
Either way, it’s expected that Honor will make its X80 Pro Max (or perhaps just the X80) official soon enough. Whether we’ll ever see it here is another matter. Previous models in the lineup have not launched here, but we’re intrigued by the idea of an 11,000mAh battery in a budget-to-mid smartphone. Even if the name is a little… overblown for what else is inside.
