Honor clones the iphone 17 pro and shoves in a 9 000 mah battery that outlasts both apple flagships combined
While Apple fans argue whether the iPhone 17 Pro’s new camera plateau is bold or bloated, Honor has already mass-produced the controversy—and slapped a 9 000 mAh cell beneath it. Leaked renders obtained by Winfuture show the upcoming Honor 600 and 600 Pro wearing Apple’s 2025 aesthetic like a rented tux: the same elevated triple-lens island, the same side-mounted camera button, the same cold aluminium frame. The difference? One of these knock-offs will run for three days straight without hunting a wall socket.
The photocopy is technically sharper
Look closer and the illusion frays. Honor’s standard 600 keeps only an ultra-wide companion to its 200 MP main sensor; the 600 Pro adds a periscope telephoto, matching Apple’s focal trio but not its silicon. Both handsets rely on an unspecified Snapdragon 8-series SoC—Qualcomm’s current top shelf, yet still a rung below Apple’s A19 Pro in raw efficiency. The 6,57-inch 1,5K OLED panels refresh at 120 Hz, same cadence as the ProMotion displays they mimic, but without the LTPO ballet that lets an iPhone sip power at 1 Hz when idle.
Still, the battery math is brutal. Apple’s two Pro models together sum 8 821 mAh; Honor crams 9 000 mAh into a single 8 mm slab. Even accounting for Android’s hungrier background scheduler, that’s enough surplus to binge an entire season of 4K footage and still top-up a friend’s dying earbuds.
Cloning is now a supply-chain sport
This isn’t a rogue act. Honor’s Power 2 launched in February with the same iPhone 17 Pro costume and a 10 080 mAh cell; Xiaomi’s 17 Pro Max follows the template so faithfully that Marques Brownlee double-checked the logo on camera. The reason is mundane: Apple’s CAD files circulate through Shenzhen’s component markets weeks before retail release. Any OEM with a CNC machine can mill the chassis, slap on a skinned MagicOS, and ship before Cupertino’s marketing drums even start.
What keeps the copycats from eating Apple’s lunch is the ecosystem moat—iCloud, Face ID silicon, the proprietary ISP chain—but for buyers who simply want a weekend phone that refuses to die, that moat looks suspiciously like a puddle.
Honor will reportedly unveil the pair across Europe before May. Price leaks point to €549 for the 600 and €699 for the Pro—roughly half an iPhone 17 Pro ticket. If the chargers really hit shelves at those tags, Apple’s biggest rival this cycle might not be Samsung but a Xerox with staying power.