Honor has confirmed that it’s going to unveil an “all-new premium flagship smartphone” through the Cell World Congress (MWC) tradeshow in Barcelona tomorrow. The keynote occasion, which kickstarts at 12pm GMT (1pm CET) on February 28, guarantees to be an eventful launch for the Chinese language firm.
Following the cancellation of MWC two years in the past as a result of outbreak of Covid-19 and a drastically scaled again (and delayed) convention final 12 months, which noticed comparatively few product bulletins, the largest occasion within the cellular calendar is returning to Spain wanting somewhat extra like its previous self this 12 months. And that is not the one change. Because the final full-scale Cell World Congress, Honor itself has undergone some fairly dramatic adjustments too.
Huawei introduced plans to sell-off its stake in Honor on the tail-end of 2020. Throughout its infancy, Honor relied closely on know-how and designs put collectively by Huawei – lowering its prices and permitting the Chinese language agency to supply decrease costs than the competitors. Nevertheless, this relationship brought about havoc when the United States authorities positioned Huawei on a blacklist that prevented all American corporations from doing enterprise with the Chinese language agency.
In consequence, Google – the Californian big behind Android, YouTube, Google Maps, Gmail, and the Google Play Retailer – was blocked from supplying its providers to Huawei and, by extension, Honor. Qualcomm, which makes a number of the strongest chipsets for Android handsets, together with OnePlus, Motorola, and a few Samsung fashions, was additionally blocked from signing any offers with Huawei and Honor.
By promoting all stakes in Honor, Huawei has freed the know-how agency to strike its personal offers with Google, Qualcomm and others. In different phrases – no matter Honor publicizes throughout its keynote presentation at MWC is more likely to arrive with Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube preinstalled. The Google Play Retailer, which provides entry to a number of the hottest video games and apps, together with Snapchat, Fb, Netflix, and WhatsApp, to call a number of, will even be preinstalled.
For patrons who anticipate Android units to reach with these hugely-popular Google-designed purposes, to not point out safety updates and flashy new options from the groups in Mountain View, California, that is extremely thrilling. It additionally signifies that different standard Android producers, together with Samsung, OnePlus, Oppo, Realme, and extra, now face extra competitors on retailer cabinets.
What can anticipate from the following flagship smartphone from Honor?
Sadly, the Shenzhen-based firm is preserving quiet about precisely what’s coming throughout its MWC announcement. We all know it is going to be referred to as the “Honor Magic4 Sequence” and a YouTube teaser trailer launched by the corporate earlier this week promised enhancements in wi-fi charging. “Free charging with out restraint, guess how briskly our industry-leading wi-fi SuperCharge of the #HONORMagic4 Sequence will be? Come and really feel the unparalleled velocity of #ThePowerofMagic!” the outline on the YouTube clip reveals.
Some tipsters have instructed that Honor Magic4 Sequence might be a rebrand of the Magic V revealed by the corporate earlier this 12 months. This handset, which is the primary foldable telephone introduced by the corporate, is presently solely obtainable in China. It sports activities a 7.9-inch pliable touchscreen that opens like a paperback guide, permitting customers extra display screen actual property to binge boxsets on Netflix, plan routes on Google Maps, flick thru photograph albums, and extra.
A smaller (albeit solely barely) 6.45-inch display screen on the surface lets smartphone homeowners shortly reply to textual content messages, verify instructions, and make contactless funds with out the necessity to open-up the bigger tablet-like display screen every time.
The Magic V is powered by the latest-and-greatest system-on-a-chip from US agency, Qualcomm. The Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 guarantees speedier efficiency than its predecessor – good for operating a number of apps side-by-side on the bigger folding display screen.
In fact, nothing is confirmed till Honor makes the announcement throughout its keynote tomorrow. It is all the time attainable that Honor Magic4 Sequence will probably be one thing utterly new for the European markets. In spite of everything, folding telephones stay a distinct segment product proper now, with most prospects selecting a extra vanilla flatscreen smartphone.
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