Honor clones the iphone 17 pro and stuffs in a 9 000 mah brick
While Apple fans still argue whether the iPhone 17 Pro’s raised camera plateau is genius or gauche, Honor has already pressed copy-paste and added a battery that dwarfs two iPhones stacked together.
Leaked renders obtained by Winfuture show the upcoming Honor 600 and 600 Pro wearing the same angular camera bump, the same metallic perimeter, even the same side-mounted camera button. The only visible tell is the logo. Under the glass, though, the story flips.
The spec sheet honor didn’t dare print on the box
Both handsets carry a 6.57-inch 1.5K OLED panel at 120 Hz, but the battery figure is what stops the scroll: 9 000 mAh. That’s roughly the combined capacity of an iPhone 17 Pro (3 998 mAh) and an iPhone 17 Pro Max (4 823 mAh) with change left over. One phone, two days, zero anxiety—if the chemistry holds up.
The silicon-carbon cell rumor mill has been churning for months; Honor looks ready to ship first. A 200 MP main sensor headlines the optics, while the Pro model adds telephoto and ultra-wide companions. The non-Pro settles for ultra-wide only, a rare moment where cloning stops.
Inside, Qualcomm’s yet-unnamed Snapdragon 8-series chip will do the maths, but Honor keeps the exact variant under wraps until launch. Europe is next on the roadmap, weeks away, not months.
Why any of this matters to apple—and to you
Every cycle we hear that “battery life is solved in software.” Apple’s A-series efficiency is legendary, yet the company still refuses to cross the 5 000 mAh psychological line. Honor just pole-vaulted it, laughing. If the 600 series delivers two-day runtime without the thermal drama that sank earlier mega-battery experiments, the conversation shifts from optimization to raw capacity—and Apple’s engineering narrative starts to look like an excuse.
Xiaomi, Realme and now Honor have all Xeroxed the iPhone silhouette. The difference is that Honor pairs the homage with a headline spec Cupertino won’t touch. Copying the silhouette is easy; copying the endurance crown could sting harder.
When the first units land in reviewers’ hands, the question won’t be “How close does it look?” It will be “How long does it last?” If the answer is “until Wednesday,” Apple’s next keynote just got more interesting.