Honor Magic 10 will reportedly get an iPhone 18 Pro-inspired camera feature

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PhoneArena
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Phonearena team
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• 15h ago

It’s happening once again. After the iPhone 18 Pro launched with a variable aperture camera, it was almost inevitable that other brands would do the same, but it appears things will happen very quickly this time. A new rumor suggests that Honor may be the first company to follow the trend with its next flagships. The Magic 10 series will reportedly bring back variable aperture to Honor phones Honor may add a camera with variable aperture to at least some of its upcoming flagship phones....

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meanestgenius
meanestgenius
Arena Legend
• 15h ago

You guys are absolutely ridiculous. If anyone is copying, it's Apple that copied Samsung, Huawei, Honor and others, and years late to the party, as usual. Just because someone decides to revisit what they've done, doesn't mean that they were influenced by Apple. Huawei is still using a variable apeture lens with the Pura 90s Pro Max that was released this year 2026 before the iPhone 18 Pro/Pro Max, so I guess that means that Apple was influenced by Huawei, right? I normally don't comment about this sites Apple glazing, but you guys have been getting really out of hand with it as of late.

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Charlie2k
Charlie2k
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• 11h agoedited

PhoneArena does often show very little knowledge about everything. But this might have been a new low even for them.


Naturally iPhone 18 didn't have anything to do with Honor Magic 10 getting variable aperture.


Do you have any idea about how long it takes to design and manufacture a new phone? Hilarious!

It's also so funny that you do refer to a discussion about Apple's terrible implementation of variable aperture. While the other manufacturers, like Honor and Huawei, does it correctly. Here it makes a noticable difference.

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Charlie2k
Charlie2k
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• 11h ago
↵Charlie2k said:

PhoneArena does often show very little knowledge about everything. But this might have been a new low even for them.


Naturally iPhone 18 didn't have anything to do with Honor Magic 10 getting variable aperture.


Do you have any idea about how long it takes to design and manufacture a new phone? Hilarious!

It's also so funny that you do refer to a discussion about Apple's terrible implementation of variable aperture. While the other manufacturers, like Honor and Huawei, does it correctly. Here it makes a noticable difference.

It's more likely that Honor got influenced by Huawei. Since Huawei for a considerable amount of years have been the camera-king. Nowadays they have variable aperture on all their flagships and even on some mid-rangers.

It's way more likely that Apple in their efforts to catch up got inspired by Huawei.

Huawei even managed to implement variable aperture in their Pura X Max. And if I'm using the same illogical thinking as PhoneArena authors does, which ignore the concept of time, then it's clear that Apple tried to make an replica of that phone with their Duo. While Apple didn't manage to make theirs as advanced and clearly a lackluster quality wise - it's still obvious where they got their inspiration from.

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TuGa121
TuGa121
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• 2h ago

It’s undeniable that Apple sets the industry standard, and the rest of the market inevitably follows their lead.

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Otoob
Otoob
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• 8m ago
↵Charlie2k said:

It's more likely that Honor got influenced by Huawei. Since Huawei for a considerable amount of years have been the camera-king. Nowadays they have variable aperture on all their flagships and even on some mid-rangers.

It's way more likely that Apple in their efforts to catch up got inspired by Huawei.

Huawei even managed to implement variable aperture in their Pura X Max. And if I'm using the same illogical thinking as PhoneArena authors does, which ignore the concept of time, then it's clear that Apple tried to make an replica of that phone with their Duo. While Apple didn't manage to make theirs as advanced and clearly a lackluster quality wise - it's still obvious where they got their inspiration from.

100%.

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