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Honor 600 is a spec-heavy budget flagship that looks a lot like an iPhone [Gallery]

Ben Schoon | Apr 22 2026 - 1:00 am PT

Honor has just unveiled its new budget-friendly Honor 600, with a pretty spec-heavy package wrapped up in an iPhone-inspired shell.

On paper, the Honor 600 is a pretty great little package. A 6.57-inch AMOLED display hits 120Hz with a 3,840Hz PWM dimming rate and, most importantly, 8,000 nits of peak HDR brightness. That’s wild for a smartphone in general, even more so one that’s at all on the budget side. The asterisk is that it only kicks in with Netflix and Amazon Video. Still, it beats out even Honor’s flagship models.

This is running on top of a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset, 8GB/12GB of RAM, 256GB/512GB of storage, and Android 16. The phone is IP68/69/69K dust/water resistant, and features two rear cameras with a 200MP primary and a 12MP ultrawide that doubles as a macro camera.

Rounding things out, there’s a 7,000 mAh battery stuffed inside of the 7.8mm chassis, and the whole thing weighs just 190g – just a bit more than a Pixel 10a. It supports 80W charging and a lot of AI features.

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There’s an Honor 600 Pro, too, but the company didn’t provide full specs for that device ahead of today’s launch.

For the price, this all looks fairly solid. In Malaysia, Honor 600 is RM2,599. That’s around $650 USD when directly converted, not that this phone will go on sale Stateside. That’s only a tiny bit more than the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, as one point of comparison. Honor 600 will launch in the EU, but pricing wasn’t provided early. The EU version does have a smaller 6,400 mAh battery.

But, it’s hard to completely ignore the elephant in the room.

That’s an iPhone.

Or, at least it looks exactly like one. From the camera array to the “window” across the back, Honor’s latest device sure does look a lot like Apple’s. It even comes in a similar shade of orange. Honor already did this with its super-thin iPhone Air competitor, and now it’s made it to budget models too.

I’ve got an Honor 600 here which, on very first impressions, is really solid. The hardware feels remarkably nice, and shockingly light for everything it brings to the table. That’s probably helped by the plastic backplate, but one could easily be fooled into thinking it’s glass.

Stay tuned for further impressions soon – there are just so many phones for us to keep up with right now.