Regardless of being onto its third book-style foldable, Honor has by no means launched a flip telephone. However that appears set to alter quickly.
For the primary time, the corporate’s CEO has confirmed that it intends to launch one in some unspecified time in the future. It’s not clear how lengthy we’ll have to attend, however George Zhao talked about two fundamental obstacles that Honor desires to beat first:
“For the flip, we’ve plans, however they nonetheless include a really excessive worth internally. We additionally wish to be the perfect.”
Each this stuff take time, particularly for a corporation that solely started releasing foldables in 2022.
Whereas Honor’s occasion on the IFA tech present in Berlin was devoted to them, the book-style Magic V2 and V Purse idea (with an exterior folding display) have been introduced as an alternative.
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As soon as Honor launches a flip telephone, Zhao believes it is going to have accomplished the set:
“When Honor launches the Flip, they should have the perfect flip telephone within the business, so we are going to present extra worth. Then, in all three classes of foldable telephones [inward folding, outward folding, flip], Honor would be the greatest.”
Whereas ‘greatest’ is subjective, worth for cash stays one among Honor’s prime priorities. The corporate will wish to undercut key rivals within the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Motorola Razr 40 Extremely (each from $999/£1,049) with out sacrificing high quality.
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Any potential launch date additionally stays a thriller, although an Honor government indicated to Reframed that it could launch at MWC in February 2024. But when the Magic V2 is something to go by, there could also be a big delay between preliminary announcement and arrival in Europe.
The Magic V2 was introduced in China in July, however Honor has confirmed to Android Authority that we’ll be ready till Q1 of 2024 for it to develop into out there.
So, you won’t have the ability to get your arms on an Honor flip telephone quickly. But it surely appears to be like like one will probably be formally introduced earlier than too lengthy.
The quotes included on this article have been flippantly edited for readability.
