Honor 700 Series Rear Display Explained: Three Models, 200MP Rumours and the India Wait

Honor 700 series rear display explained — a smartphone rear camera module (illustrative image)

Illustrative image: a smartphone rear camera module. Honor's official Honor 700 renders are published on Honor's China store, but no freely reusable official photo URL could be verified at the time of writing — this is not a photo of the Honor 700. Image: Pexels / Mustafa ezz

UPDATE — 14 November 2026: The 13 November launch did not happen. Honor CEO Li Jian confirmed on 13 November that the Honor 700 series will now launch in Wuhan, China, on Monday 23 November 2026 at 2:30 PM local time. China Telecom listings have also named the chips — Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 (Honor 700), Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (700 Pro) and Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 (700S) — and list a 6.57-inch display, a 50MP front camera, a 9,000mAh battery and MagicOS 11 based on Android 17 on all three. Prices are still unannounced and there is still no India launch date. The rest of this post has been corrected to the new date; the full corrected picture is in our updated Honor 700 launch-date post.

TL;DR — Honor 700 series rear display explained: Honor officially revealed the Honor 700, 700 Pro and 700S in China on 6 November 2026, and all three have a small square screen built into the rear camera module. Pre-orders are open in China; the launch date is now confirmed as Monday 23 November 2026 (see the update above), but there is still no price or full spec sheet — and no India launch confirmed.

📌 KEY HIGHLIGHTS

Official reveal, 6 November 2026: Honor put the Honor 700, Honor 700 Pro and Honor 700S on its China store, with official renders, four colours and memory options for each model.
A rear display on all three: a square secondary screen sits inside the camera module, showing time, notifications, music controls and a live preview for selfies taken with the rear cameras.
Pre-orders are open in China — but the final prices are still hidden on the deposit pages (the launch date is now confirmed as Monday 23 November 2026 — see the update above).
Reported, not confirmed: a 6.57-inch 1.5K OLED display, 200MP main camera, 50MP periscope lens on the Pro, around 9,000mAh battery and 80W charging, all from tipster reports.
India wait: Honor has said nothing about an India launch or India pricing; third-party listing sites are only guessing at around ₹79,990 for the Pro.

What happened?

Honor has officially revealed the design, colours and storage configurations of its next number-series lineup in China. The Honor 700 series comprises three phones — the standard Honor 700, the Honor 700 Pro and the Honor 700S — and all three are now listed for pre-order through Honor's official online store in China, with Chinese singer and actress Ju Jingyi as the series' brand ambassador.

What makes this reveal unusual is what Honor did not announce. The launch date is now confirmed: Monday 23 November 2026 (see the update above). There is still no price and no specification sheet. The company has confirmed the lineup, the design and the memory options, and left everything else to the launch event.

Buyers who pre-order in China get a 365-day replace-not-repair promise plus one year of insurance covering both the front screen and the rear screen — a telling detail, since a phone with two screens has two screens that can break. Some retailers are asking for a small 9.9 yuan early-booking fee to hold a place in line.

Honor 700 series rear display explained: the three models

The three phones share the same design language — a flat metal frame, a display with slim, uniform bezels and a hole-punch selfie camera, and a wide rectangular camera module — but they split on cameras and memory. The confirmed details (colours and memory) come from Honor's own store pages; the chips and cameras are tipster reports.

Model	Rear cameras	Memory options (confirmed)	Reported chip
Honor 700	Three	12GB+256GB, 12GB+512GB, 16GB+256GB, 16GB+512GB	Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 (reported)
Honor 700 Pro	Three, incl. periscope telephoto	12GB+256GB, 12GB+512GB, 16GB+512GB	Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (reported)
Honor 700S	Two	12GB+256GB, 12GB+512GB	Not reported

All three models come in the same four colours: Cold White, Clear Sky, Blue Tone and Pink Mist. The 700S is the least documented of the trio and looks like the most affordable model, with one fewer rear camera and fewer memory options.

What the rear display actually does

The headline feature is a square secondary screen built into the camera island on the back of the phone. Honor's reveal posters show it handling clock widgets, playful animations and a live preview for selfies taken with the main cameras. Reporting based on the official pages adds time and weather, message notifications and music controls — the usual quick-glance jobs, done without waking the main screen.

The most useful job is the selfie preview. A rear display lets you frame a self-portrait with the phone's main rear cameras instead of the front camera, which should mean noticeably better selfies and vlogs. That only works if the rear cameras are good, which is why the reported 200MP main sensor matters so much to this phone's pitch — and why it is worth waiting for the official spec sheet before believing it.

Honor is not the first to try this. Xiaomi's recent Pro phones put a rear display in the same place, and Honor's own 600 series offered a magnetic mini-display as an accessory. The 700 series builds the screen into the phone itself, and puts it on every model rather than reserving it for the Pro. Whether it becomes a real selling point or a novelty depends on how deeply Honor wires it into the software — a screen that only shows the clock will be forgotten within a week.

Honor 700 series rear display explained — taking a selfie with a smartphone, the use case the rear display targets (illustrative image)

Illustrative image: taking a selfie is the use case Honor's rear display is built for — framing the shot with the main rear cameras instead of the front camera. Image: Pexels / Hassan OUAJBIR

Reported specifications: confirmed vs rumoured

Only the design, colours and memory options are confirmed. Everything in the table below marked "reported" comes from tipster Digital Chat Station and other leak reports, and could change at the launch event.

Specification	What we know	Status
Main display	6.57-inch 1.5K flat OLED, ultra-narrow equal bezels	Reported
Rear display	Square screen in the camera module, about 1.72 inches	Design confirmed; size reported
Main camera	200MP	Reported
Telephoto	50MP periscope lens on the Pro; clip-on 200mm teleconverter support reported for 700 and Pro	Reported
Battery	Around 9,000mAh	Reported
Charging	80W wired (adapters up to 80W cleared 3C certification); 50W wireless on the Pro	Reported
Chipset	Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 (700), Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (Pro)	Reported
Colours	Cold White, Clear Sky, Blue Tone, Pink Mist	Confirmed
Price / launch date	Launch date confirmed: Monday 23 November 2026 (moved from 13 November); price not announced	Date confirmed; price not announced

The reported combination is a deliberate one: this is a mid-range series competing on imaging, battery and design rather than raw chip speed. Industry reporting on China's November launches notes the same shift across Oppo, Vivo and Honor, driven by rising memory prices squeezing margins. If the 9,000mAh battery and 200MP camera survive the official announcement, the 700 Pro will be one of the most camera-focused mid-range phones of the year.

Why it matters for India readers

For now, it matters as a signal, not a shopping option: Honor has announced no India launch for the 700 series. Honor's recent pattern should temper expectations — the Honor Magic 9 series launched in Hong Kong on 4 November, reaches Europe only in January, and India is still waiting. The 700 series is China-first, and there is no indication yet that it will travel.

The idea behind it, though, is already heading to India. The Xiaomi 18 Pro brings a rear display of its own and has a November debut with India in its plans, so Indian buyers will get to judge the concept soon either way. And the reported hardware — a 200MP main camera and a 9,000mAh battery — sits in the same league as the Motorola Signature 27, the $1,599 flagship that launched globally this week with a 200MP periscope camera and is confirmed for India this month. If Honor does bring the 700 series to India, it will be entering a segment where the camera-first flagships are already queuing up.

Should you care?

✅ Yes — if you follow phone design, watch the launch event. A rear display on all three models, not just the Pro, plus pre-orders already open, makes this a real product line rather than a concept. But do not plan a purchase yet: there is no price, no confirmed specification sheet and no India launch — the date is now set (Monday 23 November 2026), the rest still waits on the event. The launch event is the moment this story becomes a buying decision.

Price, availability & alternatives

Price: Honor has announced no price anywhere. The deposit pages hide final sale prices. Indian listing sites show around ₹79,990 for the Honor 700 Pro, but that is their estimate, not Honor's price — treat it as a placeholder until the launch event.

Availability: pre-orders are open in China only. No global or India availability has been confirmed, and the 700S is the least documented of the three models.

Alternatives to watch: the Xiaomi 18 Pro (rear display, India debut expected), the Motorola Signature 27 (200MP periscope camera, confirmed for India this month) and Honor's own Magic 9 series (flagship line, Europe in January, India still waiting).

FAQs

When will the Honor 700 series launch?
Honor has confirmed the launch date: Monday 23 November 2026 at 2:30 PM local time in Wuhan, China (see the update above). The date was moved from the originally announced 13 November. Pre-orders opened in China on 6 November 2026. No launch date outside China has been announced.

Does the Honor 700 have a rear display?
Yes — all three models (Honor 700, 700 Pro and 700S) have a square secondary screen built into the rear camera module. It shows the time, notifications, music controls and a live preview for selfies taken with the rear cameras. The reported size is about 1.72 inches, which Honor has not officially confirmed.

What are the Honor 700 series specifications?
Only the design, four colours and memory options are officially confirmed. Reported specifications include a 6.57-inch 1.5K OLED display, a 200MP main camera, a 50MP periscope telephoto lens on the Pro, an around 9,000mAh battery, 80W wired charging, and Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 (700) or Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (Pro) chips. All of these are leaks and may change.

Will the Honor 700 launch in India, and what will it cost?
Honor has not confirmed an India launch or any price. Third-party Indian listing sites estimate around ₹79,990 for the Honor 700 Pro, but that is their estimate, not an official price. Indian buyers should wait for an official announcement before assuming any model will be sold here.

Takeaway: Honor's 700 series makes the rear display a standard feature across three phones instead of a Pro-only experiment — but until the launch event confirms the cameras, battery and prices, it is a design reveal, not a phone you can buy. India is not on the list yet.

The next thing to watch is the launch event itself: when Honor publishes the full spec sheet, we will update this post with the confirmed cameras, battery and prices — and whether India is on the launch list.

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