It Looks Exactly Like an iPhone. But It Has a 9,000 mAh Battery.

It Looks Exactly Like an iPhone. But It Has a 9,000 mAh Battery.

Quick Reads

• Honour launched the 600 and 600 Pro on April 22, 2026, phones that reviewers say look almost indistinguishable from the iPhone 17 Pro.
• The standard Honour 600 runs Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, packs a 7,000 mAh battery, a 200MP camera, and an 8,000-nit HDR display starting around $650
• The Honour 600 Pro steps up to Snapdragon 8 Elite, a 9,000 mAh battery, a 50MP telephoto, and wireless charging, launching in Europe from around €800 after launch discounts
• Both phones run Android 16 with MagicOS 10, carry IP68/69/69K ratings, and are available in Malaysia and European markets, with no confirmed US launch

There is a moment when you look at the Honour 600, and your brain fills in Apple’s logo. The camera array across the back, the elevated plateau, the orange colourway, and the side button. The Verge reported that Honour’s new phones look like iPhones for Android users, and that framing is not an exaggeration. It is just a description. 9to5Google was direct about it: “That’s an iPhone. Or, at least it looks exactly like one.”

Honour has done this before. The Magic 8 Pro Air arrived in January, copying the iPhone Air’s silhouette, and 9to5Google noted then that it was the kind of phone that felt more like every iPhone rolled into one than any successor to Honour’s own design language. The 600 series takes that same approach to the mid-range market, which makes it either more concerning or more useful depending on whether you care more about originality or value.

On value, the specs are hard to argue with. 9to5Google’s hands-on review found the standard Honour 600 running on a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 processor, 8GB or 12GB of RAM, 256GB or 512GB of storage, and Android 16. The 6.57-inch AMOLED display runs at 120Hz with a 3,840Hz PWM dimming rate and peaks at 8,000 nits of HDR brightness for supported streaming apps, which beats even Honour’s own flagships. Behind the iPhone-style plateau sits a 200MP primary camera paired with a 12MP ultrawide that doubles as macro. The 7,000 mAh battery sits inside a 7.8mm chassis weighing 190 grams, and the whole thing charges at 80W. It carries IP68, IP69, and IP69K dust and water resistance ratings. Pricing in Malaysia is RM2,599, around $650 at direct conversion. European pricing lands at €649.99 for the base model, dropping to around €499.99 with launch coupons.

The Honour 600 Pro is where the numbers get genuinely impressive for the price. A 50MP 3.5x telephoto camera joins the 200MP main sensor. Wireless charging is included. Android Central’s early review praised the combination of flagship-level hardware and what the reviewer described as one of their favourite AI features across any phone they had tested, without singling out any single Apple device it could be confused for. European pricing comes in at €999.90 for the Pro, with a €200 launch coupon bringing it to €799.90.

It review put the design conversation in a broader context: the Honor 600 is one of many mid-range phones in 2026 that share a silhouette evoking the iPhone 17 series, and Honor is far from alone in making that choice. The real question, noted, is what the hardware actually delivers at the price, and the 600 series delivers quite a lot. No SD card slot, and no confirmed path to the US market, but for European and Asian buyers, this is a hard phone to dismiss, regardless of whose design vocabulary it is borrowing from.