Honor Offering Personal Engraving Service for Honor Magic Vs in China

Sudarshan Ravichandran — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 11:52:11 +0000

A couple of weeks back, Honor unveiled its second foldable smartphone called Honor Magic Vs. The device will be heading to global markets in Q1 2023. However, it is on sale in China since last week.

According to a blogger, the brand offers personal engraving service for its latest foldable. Interestingly, the company did not mention it while announcing the phone a few days back.

When you think about personal engraving on consumer electronic products, Apple is the only brand that comes to mind. Because it is the only company that has been offering this service consistently for years.

Honor introduced engraving service last year for the Honor EarBuds 2 SE in China. Now, the company is offering this service for Honor Magic Vs as well.

But unfortunately, there are certain limitations. Firstly, customers can opt for personal engraving only on the black color version of the regular model and the ‘Ultimate’ model, which comes with support for stylus input.

Further, only a few characters are supported. To be precise, Honor only allows select 7 Chinese characters, 15 English letters, and basic punctuation marks.

This means no support for emojis, which are quite popular among Apple customers. Most importantly, engraved Honor Magic Vs are not eligible for the standard 7-day no-reason return policy.

Finally, as far as the placement is concerned, customers can only engrave on the hinge of the foldable.

We are not sure if Honor will bring personal engraving to global markets. The brand will most probably not offer this service as it is not debuting the ‘Ultimate’ variant outside mainland China.

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Honor Magic Vs Launched: Gearless Hinge, Stylus Support, 54MP Camera, and More

Sudarshan Ravichandran — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:01:29 +0000

Honor has announced its second foldable smartphone today. Officially called the Honor Magic Vs, the device has debuted in the brand’s home country China. However, unlike the original Honor Magic V, the latest model has been confirmed to release in global markets in Q1 2023.

The second-gen foldable from Honor was presented alongside the Honor 80 series. You can learn about the latter here. Whereas, in this article, let’s take a look at the Honor Magic Vs equipped with a new hinge and upgraded specs.

Honor Magic Vs Specifications

Hinges are an essential part of a foldable device. They can make or break a product. Hence, companies have been improving it since foldables went mainstream.

The newly announced Honor Magic Vs arrives with a light gearless hinge. This hinge is crafted with single-piece casting technology. Therefore, the number of components of supporting structure used in the hinge has reduced from 92 to 4.

Despite the reduction in components, durability and sturdiness are retained. The aerospace-grade materials-touting hinge is rated to withstand over 400,000 folds, which is equivalent to 100 folds per day over 10+ years of use.

The foldable measures around 12.9mm in thickness and weighs about 261g. It comes in glass and vegan leather finishes. The latter is the lighter variant.

Talking about regular specs, the Honor Magic Vs flaunts a 7.9 internal foldable OLED display with a resolution of 2272 x 1984 pixels and 381 PPI. The screen supports up to a 90Hz refresh rate and 800 nits peak brightness.

On the other hand, the external display measures 6.45 inches in size with a 20:9 aspect ratio and a 90% screen-to-body ratio. This OLED panel has a resolution of 2560 x 1080 pixels and 431 PPI. It supports up to a 120Hz refresh rate and 1200 nits peak brightness.

Both displays carry support for 10-bit color depth and can cover up to 100% of the DCI-P3 color gamut. They also have support for up to 1920Hz PWM dimming.

Additionally, the Ultimate variant of the device carries support for stylus input. Just like Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z fold 4, there’s no silo for the stylus. The official stylus accessory is called Magic-Pen

Under the hood, the smartphone houses a Qualcomm Snapdragon Plus Gen 1 Chipset. It comes with a Dual TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) Security System co-developed with Qualcomm for hardware-level security. On the software front, it boots Android 12-based MagicOS 7.0 with features meant to improve productivity.

The device features a triple camera setup on the rear. The setup includes a 54MP Sony IMX800 primary sensor, a 50MP ultra-wide unit with autofocus for macro, and 8MP snapper with a 3x telephoto lens. Further, it has a 16MP shooter on the front (external display) and no front-facing camera for the internal display.

The connectivity options on the handset include dual SIM, 5G, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, GNSS, NFC, and USB 3.1 Gen1 (Type-C). Other features include a side-mounted fingerprint sensor and IMAX Enhanced-certified dual stereo speakers with support for DTS: X Ultra and 3 microphones.

Last but not least, the phone draws power from a 5,000mAh battery. It can charge at a maximum speed of 66W (wired).

Honor Magic Vs Price and Availability

The Honor Magic Vs will retail at the following price tags in China.

Standard Model

8GB + 256GB – ¥7,499 ($1,048)
12GB + 256GB – ¥7,999 ($1,118)
12GB + 512GB – ¥8,999 ($1,257)

Ultimate Variant

16GB + 512GB – ¥10,888 ($1,521)

Honor Magic Vs can be availed in either Cyan, Black, or Orange color options. Whereas, Honor Magic Vs Ultimate arrives in Black and Gold hues.

Both versions are up for pre-order starting today (November 23) and will be available for purchase from November 30.

The standard variant of the Honor Magic Vs without stylus support will be released outside mainland China in Q1 2023.

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