Honor 700 Series Brings Back the Rear Display, With a 9,000mAh Battery to Match

The Honor 700 series has a screen on the back

Honor has officially revealed its 700 series, and the talking point is a small square display built into the rear camera module. The 1.72-inch rear screen appears across all three models, the Honor 700, the Honor 700 Pro, and the Honor 700S, and it handles clock widgets, notifications, quick controls, and live camera framing so you can take high-quality selfies with the main sensor instead of the front camera.

The rear display is the kind of idea the industry keeps trying and never quite killing. Xiaomi put one on the Mi 11 Ultra in 2021, and the Xiaomi 18 Pro series now carries a secondary rear display of its own. Honor is betting that the third time is the charm, and this time the screen is not a flagship-only gimmick. It is standard across the whole lineup, including the entry-level 700S.

What is inside the three models

The lineup splits along familiar lines. The standard Honor 700 runs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage. The Honor 700 Pro steps up to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5, adds a 50MP periscope telephoto lens and 50W wireless charging. The Honor 700S is the entry model, with 12GB of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of storage. All three share a 6.57-inch flat OLED display with 1.5K resolution on the standard and Pro models.

The camera story is led by a 200MP primary sensor, with the Pro adding the 50MP periscope telephoto. Leaks also point to a clip-on 200mm telephoto extender accessory for the standard and Pro models, though Honor has not confirmed it. The battery is the other headline: a 9,000mAh silicon-carbon cell with 80W wired charging, and 50W wireless on the Pro. That is roughly double the capacity of most flagship phones sold in the West, and it is the number that will matter most in daily use.

Honor has confirmed the design, four color options (Cold White, Clear Sky, Blue Tone, and Pink Mist), and the rear display. Pre-orders and early booking listings are live across official Honor store pages and major retailers in China. The exact launch date and final pricing are still to come, with the rollout widely expected before the end of November 2026.

Why a rear display might work this time

The old rear displays failed because they were too small to be useful and too expensive to justify. Honor version is bigger than the Mi 11 Ultra effort, and it is paired with a genuinely useful job: framing selfies with the 200MP main camera. Front cameras are still the weak point of every phone, and a rear screen turns the best camera on the phone into the selfie camera. That is a real argument, not a party trick.

The rest of the package supports the same logic. A 9,000mAh battery means the extra screen does not cost you the day, and the 200MP sensor gives the rear camera something worth framing. Honor is also aiming the series at younger buyers, with singer and actress Ju Jingyi as brand ambassador, which fits a phone whose most visible feature is literally designed to be seen by other people.

What to watch before you get excited

Almost everything beyond the design and the rear display is still leak-grade. Honor has not confirmed final specifications, battery capacities across all three models, or pricing, and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 in the Pro comes from tipster Digital Chat Station, not from Honor. The 9,000mAh figure is widely reported but still unconfirmed for the standard and Pro individually, and the 700S battery has not been specified at all.

There is also no word on markets outside China. The Oppo Reno 17 series is launching in China today, and like Honor, Oppo has said nothing firm about a global release. Chinese brands increasingly treat China as the launch market and decide on global availability later, so a worldwide Honor 700 launch is a hope, not a plan.

The rear display is a good idea on paper, and Honor has given it the best shot it has had in years: standard across the range, tied to a real camera use case, and backed by a battery that can actually support it. The launch event later this month will tell us whether the pricing matches the ambition. If the Pro lands anywhere near the mid-range prices the 700 series has historically carried, the rear display stops being a curiosity and starts being a reason to buy.