Honor 300 Pro launched in China with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3!

Honor unveiled its 300 series of smartphones in China with the base Honor 300, Honor 300 Pro, and top-of-the-line Honor 300 Ultra. While the base variant is toned down with a weaker chip and fewer cameras, the Pro and Ultra bring Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 alongside triple rear shooters. In this article, we’ll shortly touch on the former including its features, availability details, and expected price in Nepal.

Honor 300 Pro Overview

Design and Display

Honor continues with a similar design philosophy on the 300 series that we saw last year. The oval-ish camera island is now a bit boxier, but the curved screen and shimmery backs are here to stay. Color options for Pro include a clean ‘Ink Rock’ Black variant, the shiny ‘Chaka Green’, and a cozy ‘Starlight Sand’.

The screen up front is a large 6.78″ curved OLED with an FHD+ resolution and a smooth 120Hz refresh rate. Other bells and whistles include 4000 nits of peak brightness, 100% DCI-P3 colors, and 3840Hz high-frequency PWM dimming

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3

Both the Honor 300 Pro and Ultra models feature last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The brand is reserving Qualcomm’s latest and greatest Snapdragon 8 Elite for its headliner Magic series, but you are still getting plenty of power to boot.

To cool the Snapdragon, there is a Vapor Chamber with a surface area of up to 36842mm². The memory here is up to 16GB of fast LPDDR5 RAM alongside up to 1TB of UFS storage. The 300 Pro boots on Android 15 with Honor’s MagicOS 9.0 on top. 

Camera

Optics are a primary focus of the Honor 300 series. Hence, you are getting pretty good hardware, headlined by a 50MP Sony main camera. That’s complemented by a 12MP ultrawide alongside a 3x telephoto zoom lens.

Reading the fine print, you might notice that the primary is the IMX906 with a relatively large sensor size (1/1.56″), Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), and an f/1.95 aperture. The 12MP ultrawide has AutoFocus support and can take macro shots up close while the telephoto is the same IMX856 sensor that we saw in its predecessor.

Honor proudly marks the 300 series as ‘Portrait Master(s)’ and claims SLR-grade portraits backed up by an AI-backed photo engine. They also support the ‘Harcourt Portrait’ mode with signature lighting effects and colors from the Paris photography studio. The selfie camera is another 50MP shooter aided by a depth sensor, so expect a good show in that regard as well.

Battery, Charging, and Others

All members of the Honor 300 series get the same 5300 mAh Silicon Carbide battery but with varying abilities to juice it up. Although everyone gets the same 100W wired charging support, only the Pro and the Ultra variants have wireless charging. The Honor 300 Pro can charge at up to 80W wirelessly while a wired plug will take you to 60% in just 15 minutes. The Pro also has the latest WiFi 7 connectivity alongside 5G, Bluetooth, NFC, and a USB Type-C port.

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Honor 300 Pro Specifications

• Weight: 199g
• Display: 6.78-inch FHD+ OLED curved display
• Resolution: 2700 × 1224 pixels
• Chipset: Octa Core Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 4nm Mobile Platform
• UI/OS: Android 15-based MagicOS 9.0
• Memory: 12GB or 16GB LPDDR5 RAM
• Storage: 256GB or 512GB storage options
• Rear Camera:
  • 50MP main camera with 1/1.56″ Sony IMX 906 sensor, f/1.9 aperture, OIS
  • 12MP ultra-wide-angle camera with f/2.2 aperture, 2.5cm macro option
  • 50MP 3x portrait telephoto camera with Sony IMX856 sensor, OIS, f/2.4 aperture, 4K video recording
• Front Camera: 50MP Sony sensor, f/2.1
• Battery: 5300mAh battery
• Charging:
  • Supports 100W SuperCharge fast charging
  • Supports 80W wireless SuperCharge fast charging

Honor 300 Pro Price in Nepal and Availability

The Honor 300 Pro is available in China with a starting price of CNY 3,399 for the 12/256GB configuration. If and when it makes it here, we expect the Honor 300 Pro price in Nepal to be around NPR 84,999.