It’s official: Honor is making a flip-style folding cellphone.
CEO George Zhao confirmed the information in an interview with CNBC on the MWC tech present in Barcelona.
Honor has already launched three book-style foldables, the newest of which being the Magic V2. Nevertheless, this new gadget will look and hopefully be priced very in a different way.
However what precisely can we count on? Right here is every little thing we all know at this level.
What’s going to Honor’s flip cellphone be referred to as?
Nothing has been revealed to date, but it surely’s virtually sure to hold the ‘Magic’ title. That’s one thing we’ve seen on each cellular gadget that Honor has launched.
The corporate’s book-style gadgets use ‘V’ branding, hinting on the form it makes whereas unfolding. If Honor continues down that path, its flip telephones may very well be often known as ‘F’ gadgets.
Alternatively, it might merely be often known as the ‘Honor Magic Flip’. We’ll have to attend and see.
When will the Honor flip cellphone be launched?
Honor has not revealed a particular launch date for its newest cellphone, although CEO George Zhao mentioned in an interview with CNBC in February 2024 that the corporate was getting ready for a launch “this yr”.
He went on to say that it was “internally within the closing stage”, so it appears extremely doubtless that we’ll see an official launch earlier than the top of 2024.
As for a extra particular date, it’s virtually not possible to foretell. One thing that’s doubtless, given Honor’s monitor file, is an preliminary Chinese language launch adopted by a worldwide launch months later.
With that in thoughts, it may not arrive in Europe till early 2025, although that’s pure hypothesis at this stage.
Nevertheless, Honor stresses that the model’s focus is starting to shift to the worldwide market, so this yr’s launch would be the one the place the gadget is launched on the identical time in China, and Europe.
However has by no means launched any of its merchandise within the US, so don’t count on that to alter.
How a lot will the Honor flip cellphone value?
At this level, we now have no official data on the value of the gadget. This would be the first gadget of its form from the producer, so we additionally haven’t any means of basing its potential worth on earlier generations.
Nevertheless, Honor’s newest book-style foldable, the Magic V2, prices lower than its opponents from Samsung or Google.
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We due to this fact count on the upcoming flip cellphone from Honor to value beneath or at the least the identical because the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 (from $999.99/£1,049) and Motorola Razr 40 Extremely ($999/£1,049).
Nevertheless, it’ll do properly to be cheaper than the £799 common Razr 40 within the UK.
What specs and options will the Honor flip have?
Honor has not confirmed any details about its upcoming flip cellphone.
Nevertheless, Weibo leaker Digital Chat Station (by way of GSMArena) means that the primary flip foldable from Honor will arrive with a 4,500mAh battery, which might be the very best capability of any of those gadgets.
On the MWC 2024 tech present in Barcelona, Honor was focusing closely on AI. A number of options are coming to the flagship Magic 6 Professional, an everyday slab cellphone, but it surely’d be an enormous shock in the event that they didn’t come to its flip cellphone too.
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In truth, Honor’s AI is just prone to get extra refined over time, so there could also be new AI options by the point the flip cellphone launches.
Assuming the gadget is high-end, it’ll most likely run both Qualcomm’s present Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 or upcoming 8 Gen 4. Anticipate the principle show to be bigger than the Magic V2‘s 6.43-inch cowl display screen and maybe even greater than the Magic 6 Professional‘s 6.8-inch panel.
In the identical interview with CNBC, Honor CEO George Zhao revealed that the corporate is engaged on a sensible ring that’ll doubtless go head-to-head with Samsung’s Galaxy Ring.
A launch date for that’s extra unsure than the flip cellphone, however they’re prone to work properly collectively as a part of Honor’s ecosystem.
