Honor 400 debuts with a fresh design, 200MP dual rear cameras, and lots of AI inside

Honor has announced two new smartphones under its N series of premium mid-range and affordable flagship phones. The phones are the Honor 400 and Honor 400 Pro, and they join the already announced Honor 400 Lite. Honor has taken an interesting approach to the design of the Honor 400 series. While the three phones have a similar design language, there are more than enough noticeable differences to set them apart.

For the Honor 400, it has a flat frame like the Honor 400 Lite (available on Amazon.de for $€299.90) but lacks the AI camera button on the right side. It also has a round punch hole in the display and not a pill-shaped one as is available on the Honor 400 Lite, while the camera island is more like a trapezoid with rounded corners.

The Honor 400 has a flat 6.55-inch display with a 2736 × 1264 resolution, a 120Hz refresh rate, and a peak brightness of 5,000 nits. The display also boasts a handful of eye protection features including 3,840Hz PWM dimming, motion sickness relief, low blue light, and an ultra dark mode. It will also work with wet hands and gloves.

There's a Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 processor under the hood, the same chipset inside the Honor 200. Buyers will be able to choose between an 8GB RAM model with 256GB or 512GB of storage. There's no MicroSD card slot for storage expansion.

When compared to the Honor 200, the Honor 400's camera setup is a bit of a mixed bag. It has just two rear cameras now which consist of a 200MP f/1.9 sensor with OIS and a 12MP f/2.2 112° ultrawide angle camera that can also shoot macro images. In contrast, the Honor 200 released nearly a year ago has a 50MP primary rear camera, a 50MP telephoto camera, and a 12MP ultrawide angle camera. The front-facing camera remains a 50MP sensor.

As expected, the Honor 400 has several AI camera features such as an AI eraser that can remove objects, passers-by, and reflections. In addition to that is the more interesting (and a first in a smartphone) 'AI Image to Video' feature that turns captured images to dynamic videos. There's also 'Moving Photo Collage' which combines between 2 to 9 motion photos into 'dynamic storytelling moments'.

The Honor 400 has a 5,300mAh silicon-carbon battery capacity that charges at 66W which is much smaller than the 7,200mAh battery capacity of the Chinese variant. Honor will also release a global version with a larger 6,000mAh battery that charges at 80W. The phone has stereo speakers, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Dual SIM support.

It runs MagicOS 9.0 based on Android 15 out of the box, and Honor has confirmed that the Honor 400 will receive 6 years of Android updates and 6 years of security updates, with Android 16 arriving at the end of the year. Honor has added a handful of AI features too such as Magic Portal 2.0 which is its own take on Google's Circle-to-Search, AI recorder, AI translation, and AI deepfake detection.

The Honor 400 has SGS 5-drop resistance and an IP65 dust and water resistance rating. It is available to buy in Midnight Black, Meteor Silver, and Desert Gold. Pricing starts at €499 for the 256GB version and goes up to €549 for the 512GB variant. In the UK, the 256GB version is priced at £399 while the 512GB variant costs £449.