Second notchless fidget phone: Honor Magic 2

[suicidalfranco]

Following Huawei press conference and the disappointing announcement that the Mate 20X wouldn't come to Europe (unless you import), Huawei's child company, Honor, as made an official announcement of their next smartphone: the Honor Magic 2.

First things first, the piéce de resistance: just like the Xioami Mi Mix 3 released before it, the Magic 2 features a almost bezel-less and notchless design achieved by using the same mechanism has slider phones from back in the early 2000s, the perfect fidget toy. Under the display we find 3 camera sensors and a speaker.

The display is 6.39" long, sports a 2340x1080 resolution with an aspect ratio of 19,5:9 (or the more logical 13:6 as it should be).

 The spec rundown courtesy of XDA:

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Obviously inside this phone we find the new Kirin 980 SoC from Huawei and just like the Mate 20 line up we have, what i like to define as a huge waste of space, a triple camera setup on the back. one normal, one ultra wide and one monochrome. Other borrowed features are the 40W fast charge, 3D facial scanning and on screen fingerprint sensor.

The presentation than goes on wasting people's time with an AI assistant named Yoyo no one asked and reveal of the new Magic UI 2.0, basically EMUI 9.0 re-branded.

 

The phone starts at 3799 RMB, or 480€/545$ for the 6GB and 128GB model, 543€/617$ for the 8GB version with the same initial storage option, 607€/687$ for the 8GB 256GB version and finally 733€/831$ for the 8GB 512GB model that will be released a couple of months after the first three configurations.

LAST MINUTE INFO: Sounds like the 3D facial thingy will only be available on the 512GB version.

The phone will come in three color variants red blue and black.

Inside the box will be included the 40W charger, a USB C to A cord, a case and the headphone jack adaptor, right forgot to mention that this phone does not include the headphone jack, instant garbage as far as i'm concerned.

 

Although the phone might be utter garbage considering the company and it's parent *cough*no way to unlock the bootloader*cough* i'm just glad that having a mainstream company like Honor releasing suck a device might finally mean that 2019 may be the year where we leave notch to 2018 and hopefully never attempt to look back at it. hopefully cause i want I want a new phone and and the past 2 years of devices have been vomit inducing to say the least.

Now if only OEMs would pick up another great idea from the past and start making phone bodies using polymers instead of the god awful metal and glass, that would balls to the wall, A. f-ing, AMAZING!

 

source: https://www.xda-developers.com/honor-magic-2-honor-watch-magic-honor-flypods-pro-launch/

[S w a t s o n]

5 minutes ago, James Evens said:

Naming a material polymer is similar precises as telling you the liquid in front of you is a aliphatic compound.

 

After the lenovo z something render fail i would not call this bezel less until they present it.

eh that was a promotional image and it was a drawing, if they went this far to be misleading they gonna have a bad time

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, James Evens said:

Naming a material polymer is similar precises as telling you the liquid in front of you is a aliphatic compound.

 

After the lenovo z something render fail i would not call this bezel less until they present it.

not wanting to leave out any of the possible solutions, polycarbonate is nice when done right, kevlar is the best one i've seen on a phone this far, read about a new self healing polymer early this month, would be interesting to see it in handheld devices

It's spreads so far and wide, i simply couldn't just say bring back plastic, which mostly means PVC

[WereCat]

Looks good to me. For €480 it's something that I can actually consider to buy. 

As much as I would love to have the Mate 20 Pro, this looks almost as good for half the price. 

[iRileyx]

That front view is really confusing me... Is that 2 phones with one infront of the other, if so how's there only one set of cameras/sensors?

Or do the camera/sensor bits pop up from inside? but then the edge looks almost seamless so it doesn't look as if they do.

[suicidalfranco]

2 minutes ago, iRileyx said:

That front view is really confusing me... Is that 2 phones with one infront of the other, if so how's there only one set of cameras/sensors?

 

no, the screen slides down from it's main body to reveal the hidden front facing cameras

[iRileyx]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

no, the screen slides down from it's main body to reveal the hidden front facing cameras

Thats... odd.

 

Seems more like a novelty thing than an actual feature, "look, my screen slides off so i can use the front camera!"  

[suicidalfranco]

Just now, James Evens said:

Definitely. Just look at the blackberry devices. But selfhealing phone surfaces is far in the future. LG tried it and failed. IBM showed 4 years ago a nice polymer and again it was focused on different applications. On other product classes like concrete self healing is already used on a industrial scale.

 

are you talking about the motorola razr? 

them, and the recent pocophone i got to try at the store (almost got tempted to take it home, but then there was the notch, and it was so big that Xiaomi decided to not let notifications stack on the corner)

[suicidalfranco]

2 minutes ago, iRileyx said:

Thats... odd.

 

Seems more like a novelty thing than an actual feature, "look, my screen slides off so i can use the front camera!"  

better than a notch ant it's a tried and tested way of doing phone for almost a decade. Just look at all the phones we used to get before the slab style

Spoiler

that was my last slider phone before i moved to the all touch smartphones. Used it for years. Still have. Still solid as far as the sliding mechanism is concerned. 

[suicidalfranco]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

better than a notch ant it's a tried and tested way of doing phone for almost a decade. Just look at all the phones we used to get before the slab style

  Reveal hidden contents

that was my last slider phone before i moved to the all touch smartphones. Used it for years. Still have it. Still solid as far as the sliding mechanism is concerned. 

Typo

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, suicidalfranco said:

better than a notch 

I'd take the notch over a sliding phone any day.

[suicidalfranco]

2 minutes ago, 79wjd said:

I'd take the notch over a sliding phone any day.

i'll take the slide over the notch any second.

 

Except for this one.

and the Mi3.

 

I don't deal with jack-less devices and "Huawei's no longer releasing bootloader unlock codes"

[mynameisjuan]

15 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

i'll take the slide over the notch any second.

 

Except for this one.

and the Mi3.

 

I don't deal with jack-less devices and "Huawei's no longer releasing bootloader unlock codes"

Let be real...you hate literally every phone on the market

 

But Id take a notch over a slide phone. I want a case.

[suicidalfranco]

7 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Let be real...you hate literally every phone on the market

 

But Id take a notch over a slide phone. I want a case.

both the mix and this come with a case

[suicidalfranco]

8 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Let be real...you hate literally every phone on the market

not my fault if they're all compromises on top of compromises.

my gold standards are the S5, note 4 and V10. Have to see anything that comes close to those

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, suicidalfranco said:

not my fault if they're all compromises on top of compromises.

my gold standards are the S5, note 4 and V10. Have to see anything that comes close to those

S8/S9/Note 9.....zero compromises

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, mynameisjuan said:

S8/S9/Note 9.....zero compromises

glass back

non removable battery

edge display

 

not even trying 

[mynameisjuan]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

glass back

non removable battery

edge display

 

not even trying 

1 - case

2 - stop living in 2014, its not coming back

3 - not even a con

[Blademaster91]

2 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

1 - case

2 - stop living in 2014, its not coming back

3 - not even a con

A case so you'll never see the glass back companies are selling as a "luxury" thing, I know it has to be glass or polycarbonate for wireless charging but  IMO polycarbonate should be used instead.

The S5 and note4 still retained an IP rating while having a removable battery, like no phone manufacturer does it anymore to get you buying a new phone after the battery starts to degrade.

An edge display can be a con unless you put a case on the phone, glass that extends to the edges only makes the phone even more fragile.

[suicidalfranco]

1- so worthless since you'tr supposed to cover your oh so precious glass with a cheap plastic case

2- still one more thing that my 3 could do, that i'm supposed yo pay more to see it removed

3- warped picture, unwanted touch registers

[BuckGup]

40W fast charge oh my 

[D13H4RD]

1 hour ago, mynameisjuan said:

3 - not even a con

Eh, the curved display is a con for some people owing to unwanted touches or other stuff. I've hardly had issues with the palm rejection on my N8, but I know some people just don't want to deal with it

 

Yeah, you can put a case on it, but I miss the times where you didn't need one

13 minutes ago, BuckGup said:

40W fast charge oh my 

Funnily enough, runs cooler than Power Delivery

[mynameisjuan]

6 minutes ago, D13H4RD said:

Eh, the curved display is a con for some people owing to unwanted touches or other stuff. I've hardly had issues with the palm rejection on my N8, but I know some people just don't want to deal with it

 

Yeah, you can put a case on it, but I miss the times where you didn't need one

My family and nearly all my friends have S8/9 and the palm rejection is excellent. When people tend to have problems with it is because they grip the phone with their entire palm. Those people tend to have rejection issues even on not edge displays. 

[suicidalfranco]

5 hours ago, mynameisjuan said:

My family and nearly all my friends have S8/9 and the palm rejection is excellent. When people tend to have problems with it is because they grip the phone with their entire palm. Those people tend to have rejection issues even on not edge displays. 

so basically your saying everyone but you and your friends are holding it wrong 

 

 

mmmmhhhhh where did i already heard that i wonder...

[mynameisjuan]

6 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

so basically your saying everyone but you and your friends are holding it wrong 

 

 

mmmmhhhhh where did i already heard that i wonder...

A little different when people expect palm rejection to work when their entire hand is on the screen. Usually because the phone is just too big for one handed use with their hand size.