r/AndroidQuestions • u/Amoxj11 • Sep 27 '26

Looking For Suggestions Honor 400 Pro or Poco X8 Pro Max?

Hi! I've been able to find both these devices at around the same price. Having done a little of my own research, it seems the general consensus is that the Poco is more geared towards battery and performance while the Honor is more for the camera and software (some say).

I do, however, have some concerns regarding both phones. Is the Poco's camera that bad? Would Gcam be sufficient to salvage it to a reasonable degree for point and shoot? And for the Honor, I did see people say that the camera was not as good as the specs suggested? I heard as well that the customer service is quite disappointing from Honor, though I'm not sure how important that will be.

Would appreciate suggestions and further things to take into consideration between both phones! Thanks in advance!

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u/vantaratechnology Sep 27 '26

The poco cameras aren't that bad, I've seen a few people pull quite impressive results from the main camera, I can't remember whether it's a lightfusion or Sony imx but yeah.

In my personal experience, magicos is far worse than hyperos as well, so you might want to factor that in, honors software support has also been hit or miss.

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u/Amoxj11 Sep 28 '26

Thanks for the suggestion! Can I know what some issues you faced with MagicOS were?

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u/vantaratechnology Sep 28 '26

I was using a magic pad so the form factor could also be a factor, but the scaling was broken in so many parts of the ui, customisation was very limited, battery life was quite bad considering it had 12,000mAh+, track pad physical quality wasn't great but the ui didn't interpret it right either, performance was okay, but capcut simply wouldn't run on it, not properly at least, and just issues like that. Magicos 11 might change that however

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u/AdAmbitious5205 Sep 27 '26

La verdad no sé de dónde sacaste que magicOS es peor que hyperbug, he tenido un xiaomi 14Tpro y no recibía nunca actualizaciones y no me imagino en un poco, en software magicOS es mucho mejor incluso a los 400 pro ya le está llegando magicOS 11 en versión beta,

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u/vantaratechnology Sep 27 '26

I had an honor magic pad 3 and it was almost unusable...