The special battery distinguishes this cell phone from others.

According to HonorThe new Magic7 Lite comes with a dedicated battery, an industry first, making it a little more interesting than your average mid-range smartphone, but what’s new about it? The Magic7 Lite features a silicon-carbon battery instead of the more common lithium-ion battery, allowing for increased capacity without increasing physical size.

The Magic7 Lite’s silicon-carbon battery has a capacity of 6600 mAh, and Honor estimates that it will provide nearly 26 hours of video playback on a single charge, and will also perform reliably in both hot and cold conditions. Using artificial intelligence technology, Honor’s software will squeeze a 50-minute conversation out of the remaining 2% of the battery, highlighting its usefulness in emergency situations. The use of silicon can also help reduce the use of fossil fuels.

While this is interesting, don’t read too much into the “industry first” claim since silicon-carbon batteries have been around for a while and Honor seems to mean that this is the industry’s first silicon-carbon battery , offering such batteries. large capacity. Honor itself has already installed silicon-carbon batteries in phones, such as the 5600 mAh cell in the Honor Magic 6 Pro, and Vivo used a silicon anode in the battery of the series. Vivo X200and we expect this trend to continue into 2025.

What about the rest of the Magic7 Lite? It represents the first of the new Honor Magic7 series announced in Europe (though don’t expect a US launch), and the thin and light phone (189 grams and 7.98mm thick) is available in two different finishes: titanium black and bright. Titanium purple. Honor says the case can withstand drops of two meters, and the IP65M dust and water resistance rating provides additional durability. The 6.78-inch AMOLED display has a 120Hz refresh rate and a 3840Hz pulse-width modulation (PWM) dimming frequency.

On the back there is a 108-megapixel main camera and a 5-megapixel wide-angle camera, and inside there is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor with 8 GB of RAM. The Snapdragon chip was also used in the Magic6 Lite, which also had the same camera system, so it’s unlikely to appeal to owners of its one-year-old predecessor. It also comes with Android 14 installed rather than the latest Android 15 software.

The Honor Magic7 Lite will go on sale in Europe and the UK on January 15 for £399, or around $500.