Honor Magic 2: the Truly Bezeless Phone We've Waited For?

BERLIN—The Honour Play was upstaged here today at IFA when Huawei's smartphone brand unexpectedly unveiled the Accolade Magic 2.

The successor to a somewhat obscure telephone that only always launched in Red china, the Magic 2 volition be the first Award smartphone to have the new Kirin 980 processor with a dedicated AI core, which Huawei is expected to announce at its keynote. There's a full view brandish, meaning ultra-thin bezels and no infamous notch.

George Zhao, President of Honor, said the first-gen Laurels Magic "reshaped smartphone design and become a benchmark for all smartphones. That's possibly overstating the case a piddling. Launched in 2022, the first Honor Magic preceded the AI-everything hype (machine learning was the big buzzword back then). It garnered some interest internationally and served as our kickoff existent look at what was to come every bit manufacturers started trying to maximize screen size, minimize bezels, and decided to call everything AI.

The Magic ii has built on that. A new characteristic chosen Magic Slide is substantially a sliding bezel that lets the camera pop upwardly from the tiptop. Ordinarily it's hidden from view, allowing the phone to have a seamless all-screen look. This spares you from a notch or any kind of software geared at hiding a notch. On the downside, it does add a moving part, which is always a business organisation when it comes to whatsoever electronics. The move toward eliminating concrete buttons is partially inspired by removing points of failure.

Bated from the all-screen front end and sliding photographic camera, the Magic two has some miscellaneous AI features and 40W fast charging. Honor says the phone automatically identifies the battery, cable, and charger and only starts fast charging if they're identified as safe. That's something all phones do because that's just how fast charging works. Mark that one upward equally a marketing gimmick.

The Magic 2 is expected to debut in Federal republic of germany. The company believes the launch of the Honor Magic 2, together with the Laurels 10 and Honor Play, can push button the company's goal of becoming one of the top 5 smartphone brands in the world within the next three years.

It's certainly ambitious, simply with competitors like ZTE however reeling, Huawei and its Honor sub-make could be poised to have advantage. It'southward worth null that bated from Samsung, Huawei is the just company that designs its own in-house processor and isn't dependent on Qualcomm for chipsets.

There'southward no word at the moment of when the Honour Magic two will launch, nor the price, or if information technology will even come to the US. We'll update as we become more details.