Honor is engaged on a foldable smartphone. However this isn’t solely the predictions of insiders, the corporate itself doesn’t cover this and introduced that the system will change into a part of the Magic line. The announcement of the brand new smartphone must be anticipated no sooner than the primary quarter of subsequent 12 months, however right now we will see how the Honor Magic Fold will appear like.

The well-known community informant @RODENT950, who has repeatedly been correct in his predictions about future Huawei / Honor merchandise, has posted a render of the smartphone. No one actually thought concerning the design of the smartphone. It was determined to hold it out in the identical type because the Honor 50 and Honor 60. The required similarity was achieved as a result of design of the primary digital camera of the Honor Magic Fold, which obtained three picture sensors.

All in all, it is going to be a Galaxy Fold three type smartphone with an extra display screen on the surface. It’s noteworthy that the entrance digital camera doesn’t seem on the render. Maybe the corporate selected to ship it beneath the show, and even deserted it.

Whether or not the Honor Magic Fold will actually appear like this and what traits it’ll obtain, there isn’t a actual info. We hope that insiders won’t depart us with no portion of details about the brand new product sooner or later.

Honor ranked third in China in smartphone gross sales – forward of Xiaomi and Apple

Impartial from Huawei, Honor is quickly growing gross sales of its smartphones in China. In line with Counterpoint Analysis, third-quarter cargo volumes ranked the seller because the third most profitable smartphone vendor within the nation.

Honor bought 96% extra smartphones within the third quarter than within the earlier quarter. Because of this, the corporate gained a 15% share within the Chinese language gadget market; proper after Vivo and Oppo (23% and 20%, respectively) in accordance with analyst Counterpoint Analysis. Surprisingly, Xiaomi, extraordinarily standard exterior of China, within the house market is content material with solely fourth place; and Apple closes the highest 5.

Initially, Honor was a sub-brand of Huawei; beneath which gadgets of the price range and mid-range, in addition to fashions for the youth viewers, had been produced. This 12 months Huawei bought it to a consortium of corporations that features the authorities of the quickly growing financial heart – town of Shenzhen. Huawei itself now occupies solely 8% of the Chinese language market; whereas a 12 months in the past it was within the lead with 30%.

The self-sufficient firm resumed selling its merchandise in China; and now it sells relatively costly fashions, together with the Magic3 Professional + smartphone launched in August, which price about $ 1250.

We additionally add that the whole quarterly gross sales of smartphones within the Center Kingdom fell by 9% compared with the earlier 12 months.