I’ve been testing the Honor 600 Pro for the last couple of weeks (the super cute Molly Limited Edition version, to be precise), but there’s one cool feature that I’ve overlooked up until this point.
The Chinese tech giant has been making quite a big deal out of the phone’s AI Image to Video 2.0 tool, which lets you transform static shots into moving video clips in just a few taps. Now, Honor is a bit guilty of sticking the word ‘AI’ on basically anything to make it sound more impressive, so I just assumed that AI Image to Video 2.0 would be little more than an image editing tool wrapped up in AI branding, memory-holed alongside the likes of the AI Memories app — which, hilariously, is literally just a standard screenshot tool — and the completely useless AI Settings Agent.
Last night, however, I wanted to show off some of the 600 Pro’s big features at after-work drinks with my colleagues (yes, our nights out really are that riveting), saw AI Image to Video 2.0 in the photos menu, and decided to give it a shot.
Bring on the prawns
The results? A steady stream of what I can only describe as absolute, unmitigated slop—but I mean that in the best possible way.
AI Image to Video 2.0 gives you an impressive range of presets to choose from. There’s an option that lets you stand next to your favorite fictional character, one that puts your pets in human clothes and makes them talk, and even one that brings your pen and paper doodles to life.
Picking one of these presets basically just fills in the prompt automatically with some basic descriptive text and, while there are some tantalizing picks, I beelined straight to the unrestricted freestyle mode to see just how wacky things could get. My input was simple. A photo of Phones Editor Axel Metz, pint in hand and perched on a spare gaming chair that we’d wheeled over to the pub from our office across the street.
My first prompt: to send the chair flying up into space with Axel in it. After a few minutes waiting, while the 600 Pro processed my request in the background, I was presented with an eight-second clip of exactly that and, honestly, I was pretty surprised at how good it looked.
The prompt was understood perfectly, and there is an impressive level of visual consistency in what it generated, even when the background scene panned into the sky. It came with sound too; the chair creaking loudly and audible shouts of “This is amazing!” as it took flight. Don’t get me wrong, the result is obviously artificial and the painfully generic American voice it generated for Axel sounded nothing like him. But it was still enough to get some decent laughs at the table and everyone was clamoring to add their own prompts to test it out.
Flying chairs are one thing, but you can be seriously weird with what you can achieve with AI Image to Video 2.0, much to Axel’s chagrin. VPN Editor Rob Dunne had the ground beneath the chair crumbling into a massive fiery pit, while Axel himself demanded to be transformed into an inflatable, arm-flailing tube man.
I came in with the idea for a sea of tempura prawns pouring into the shot, which it generated beautifully, albeit with the bizarre addition of Axel’s AI self singing “I’m going prawn mode” throughout.
If you’ve got a group of friends with a raft of in-jokes to bring to life, all this silliness is going to be an awful lot of fun.
Free… for now
Unfortunately, there is a pretty big catch. There’s a little label every time you hit the generate button that clarifies that the free generation is only available as part of a “limited-time free trial.”
This does make some sense, as it’s mainly powered by a cloud service which must be extremely expensive to maintain, but I’m still a little disappointed that I won’t be able to conjure billions of tempura prawns forever.
There are some usage limits right now as well, and working out how many you’re actually entitled to is enough to make your head spin. Per the Honor website, if you activate your device before July 31, 2026, you get 10 free uses per day for exactly 76 days, and then 10 every 30 days from day 77 onwards.
Activate your phone after that date, and you only get the latter 10-every-30-days allowance. There doesn’t appear to be any on-screen counter telling you how many you’ve got left at any given time either.
You can pay for additional uses, though the pricing structure is equally confusing. There’s introductory pricing, which is presumably a bit cheaper, though I can’t find details on how much it actually costs up until December 31, 2026 when the regular rate kicks in.
Still, AI Image to Video 2.0 is a cool little gimmick that gives the Honor 600 Pro a neat trick up its sleeve. It’s available on the significantly cheaper Honor 600 model as well, so more budget-conscious buyers can join in the fun, too.
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