Honor GT Pro: New high-end smartphone now officially available with 7,200 mAh battery and Snapdragon 8 Elite

The GT Pro lines up as Honor's latest gaming smartphone despite its fairly bland design. While rivals like the ROG Phone 9 Pro and RedMagic 10 Pro (curr. $749 on Amazon) are easily identifiable as gaming smartphones, Honor has taken a different approach with the GT Pro. As the company's promotional images show, the GT Pro misses out on all the flourishes that one would normally expect to feature on a gaming-first device.

Instead, the GT Pro finds itself with a simple squircle-shaped camera housing, rounded corners and a flat frame like many modern flagships. Nonetheless, Honor has installed a display with a 2,700 Hz touch sampling rate, which should make the GT Pro feel more responsive when gaming than many of its rivals. On top of that, the 6.78-inch AMOLED panel delivers a 2,800 x 1,264-pixel native resolution, 4,320 Hz PWM dimming, a 144 Hz refresh rate and 6,000 nits peak brightness when viewing HDR content. Honor claims that the GT Pro should peak at 1,600 nits across its entire panel when SDR content is active, too.

Meanwhile, this display is underpinned by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset, a 7,200 mAh battery that supports 90 W wired charging and four 50 MP cameras. Honor adds that the GT Pro masters Qualcomm aptX Adaptive and LDAC codecs too, along with Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi 7 connectivity. Currently, the GT Pro is exclusive to China where the smartphones starts at CNY 3,699 (~$508) with 12 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. For reference, Honor offers several memory configurations up to 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage, for which it charges CNY 4,799 (~$659). Like the Pad GT, Honor has not yet confirmed whether it plans to sell the GT Pro globally.