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IFA 2018: Honor Magic 2 on the horizon and new colours Honor Play

Honor Play - official launch during IFA
Honor Play - official launch during IFA photo: Jacek Filipowicz/GSMchoice.com

The press conference of the Honor company, which was held as a part of the Berlin fair, brought some unexpected information. Do you remember the Magic series?

We did not expect too many new products at the Honor press conference, because we managed to get to know the Honor Play smartphone before leaving as a promising construction with an excellent price-performance ratio. - After all, Honor Play was the main theme of the fair event. If you are interested in the smartphone experience, I invite you to my previous material and to study the specifications.

Please, do not turn off the receivers yet, because the president of Honor, Mr. George Zhao also announced a completely new housings for Honor Play. Both are dedicated primarily to players, but it seems to me that they can also appeal to those who do not have much in common with games. Two special editions of the smartphone have been wrapped in red with the motif of a printed circuit board and black with elements of nicely contrasting red with a very similar motif. Honor Play Player Edition will cost 349 euro and will therefore be more expensive than the regular edition by 20 euro.

Honor as a company began strategic cooperation with Audi and its logo will be visible during rallies in the Far East and Australia. Players, on the other hand, may be interested in the message that the cooperation has also begun with the owners of the brand of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds - a popular PUBG, which on the mobiles is supported by the GPU Turbo technology.

A complete surprise was the announcement by the president of the continuation of the Magic line. Honor Magic 2 will have a retractable module with cameras extremely similar to the solution from Oppo Find X, and thus the entire front panel will be occupied by the display. The fast charging with the characteristic high power charger will appear again. With regard to the previous version, all safety parameters related to charging were to be improved and optimized.

Equally unexpected was the declaration that the new Magic 2 will operate under the control of the Kirin 980 processor, which has not yet been officially announced by the manufacturer. There is, of course, no release date or even approximate prices, but it is worth waiting for the next Magic, because it's probably the most original Honor series.

Source GSMchoice.com

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Jacek Filipowicz

A journalist specializing in the market of electronic devices, with particular emphasis on portable devices, phones, smartphones and tablets. Associated with the mGSM.pl catalogue from the very beginning of the website's existence. Since 2012, he has been the editor-in-chief. The author of tests, reviews, news.

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