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  Honor is reportedly planning to launch a newly designed MagicBook laptop with narrower screen bezels. The newly designed MagicBook series may be powered by AMD's Raider 5000U series or Intel's 11th generation Core H35 processors, which are expected to be released in March.According to GzimoChina, the chin region of the display will carry the company's logo while the power button will be housed on the top right corner of the bottom half.As per the report, the laptop's camera will be shifted to the top center region of the keyboard. Recently, the company launched its new MagicBook 14 2021, MagicBook 15 2021 laptop series in China. Both the laptops feature new 11th-Gen Intel Core i processors and come with up to Nvidia GeForce MX450 discrete graphics. The company claims that the new MagicBook laptops come with 49 per cent performance boost compared to the older generation. It runs Microsoft's Windows 10 Home operating system. Read More

  Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is in talks with Digital China Group Co Ltd and other suitors to sell parts of its Honor smartphone unit in a deal that could fetch up to 25 billion yuan ($3.7 billion), people with knowledge of the matter said. Embattled Huawei is resetting its priorities due to US sanctions and will focus on its higher-end Huawei phones rather than the Honor brand which is aimed at young people and the budget conscious, they said. The assets to be sold have yet to be finalised but could include Honor's brand, research & development capabilities and related supply chain management business, two of the people said. The deal may be an all-cash sale and could end up smaller, worth somewhere between 15 billion yuan and 25 billion yuan, one of the people said. Read More

  Chinese electronics maker Huawei’s digital brand Honor on Thursday launched in India the Honor Watch GS Pro and Honor Watch ES smartwatches. The Honor Watch GS Pro is a rugged smartwatch; passed through 14 types of MIL-STD-810G tests for durability and longevity. It boasts a battery life of up to 25 days, Bluetooth calling, and GPS Route Back features. The Honor Watch ES is a lifestyle smartwatch with focus on design and health and fitness features. It features a 1.64-inch rectangular AMOLED touch display, 95 workout modes, and 12 built-in health and fitness animated courses. The Honor Watch GS Pro, priced at Rs 17,999, will be available in midnight black colour on Flipkart from October 16.   For Flipkart early access members, the sale will start from October 15. Honor is offering no interest equated monthly instalment of up to 12 months. Additionally, consumers will get a 10 per cent instant discount on the SBI credit or debit card transactions. Read More

  Chinese electronics maker Huawei’s digital brand Honor has, since late last year, been planning to expand its hardware lines beyond smartphones. After a silent period of over six months, the brand launched its first notebook, the Honor MagicBook 15 , in the country in August. It is a thin and light notebook that brings some premium features at an affordable price tag of Rs 42,990. In principle, the Honor MagicBook 15 seems to be a decent notebook for everyday use. But does it justify its pricing? Let’s find out: Design Made of aluminium, the MagicBook 15 has a thin and lightweight build. It might not be the most compact notebook around, but it certainly has a zing to its design which adds to the product’s overall premium character. But there are some issues: Even if the design is good and the build sturdy, the weight distribution is quite uneven. And, its hinge is unable to keep the display lid intact; it keeps swaying backwards even on slight movements. Read More

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s sub-brand Honor recently launched in India the Honor 9X Pro . Priced at Rs 17,999, the phone goes for special early access sale at 12 noon on Flipkart. The sale is exclusive to people who showed interest and registered for the product on Flipkart from May 12 - May 19. The Honor 9X Pro will available in midnight black and phantom purple colours. Honor is offering several benefits during early access sale, including no interest equated monthly instalment scheme for up to six months, Rs 3,000 instant discount and free one-time screen replacement plan on accidental damage valid for first three months. Besides, the company is also offering seven-day return, subject to terms and conditions. Read More

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has announced the launch of Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), which will ship with the company’s upcoming Honor 9X Pro smartphone. In retrospective, the HMS is Huawei’s answer to Google Mobile Services (GMS), which the company is barred to use on its smartphones due to trade sanctions imposed by US president Donald Trump. The Honor 9X Pro will ship with Android platform but without GMS apps like the Play Store and the entire Google Apps suite. The Honor 9X Pro has AppGallery, which is part of HMS ecosystem. Though it may not have all the apps one gets on the Play Store, it is a growing platform that comes with fairly good number of apps. Existing Android users can also transfer apps from their old smartphone to Honor 9X Pro. However, only those app will work that do not have dependency on GMS. Read More

As phone manufacturers gradually do away with headphone jacks, wireless earphones have become the new normal. Chinese electronics giant Honor's Sport Pro headphones follow the same trend, albeit with a special focus on fitness enthusiasts. Priced at Rs 3,999, it is available in Phantom Red, Phantom Grey, and Phantom Purple colour options. Design One of the first things you notice about the Sport Pro is that its ear tips resemble Apple Earpods. The silicone ear tips are uniquely shaped which means you need to twist them slightly in ear after putting them on. But once that is done, it's a snug fit. They also feel really soft and easy on the ear, mainly because they need not be inserted too deep. Read More

Smartphone design trends 2019 : Once a game of specifications, the smartphone market came a long way this year. Besides offering the best mix of specifications and features, mobile phone makers now are also making efforts on their products' design language — that might have been one of the key differentiators for smartphones launched in 2019. From a reflective gradient design to 3D curved body and obstruction-free profile, the smartphones launched in 2019 experimented with different designs while also enhancing the overall product build. Oppo Reno 2 The Reno 2 (review) perfected the smartphone design to become one of the best of the year 2019 in terms of looks. The phone has a dual-colour-tone design that looks absolutely gorgeous, especially in the luminous black colour. Moreover, its design is accentuated by better ergonomics and a light-weight build. The phone’s premium glass-metal sandwich construction complements its design, and the use of Corning Gorilla Glass on t...

Chinese smartphone maker Honor, a sub-brand of Huawei, is confident about its survival despite no access to Google Mobile Services (GMS) as the company is fast developing its own Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), a top company executive told IANS here on Thursday. Google Mobile Services (GMS) are the apps by Google that often come pre-installed on Android devices. Honor is working on a pre-planned strategy to overcome the difficulties being faced owing to the ongoing US-China trade war and restrictions imposed on the giant. The company has already started talent acquisition and it's not 'Mission Impossible' for us to stand in the global market without Google's support, said James Zou, President of Honor's Overseas Marketing and Sales. "Google acquired Android around 10 years back for less than $20 million and several companies worked with it to build the entire Android ecosystem, including Huawei. "We thought Android is open source so we work...

After launching the Honor Band 4 fitness band, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei’s sub-brand Honor introduced in India the Honor Watch Magic – a smart wearable that functions both as a watch and a fitness band . The watch is made of steel and comes in black and silver colour options, priced at Rs 13,999 and Rs 14,999, respectively. Design The Watch Magic has a solid build with a CNC-processed bezel on the top, and laser-engraved markings on the lower side. These engraved markings, along with an accentuated red colour marking on the bezel and menu button, go well with the dual colour textured strap that the watch comes with. However, the sweat-proof strap has a silicone rubber on the bottom that might not suite suit everyone, especially those with skin sensitive to allergies. Thankfully, the watch is water resistant (5ATM/50 meters) and is designed so that it does not accumulate water for a long time. Display The watch has a 1.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, which is big e...

Honor , a smartphone brand owned by Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, is gearing up to launch the Honor View 20 in India on January 29. The smartphone will be the first one in India to boast a punch-hole screen, accommodating the front camera. This Amazon-exclusive smartphone also has Huawei’s flagship Kirin 980 system-on-chip, 48-megapixel primary camera, a glass gradient design and an Android Pie-based Magic user interface, which is an improvement to Huawei’s emotion UI (EMUI) seen in previous iterations of Honor devices. As noted in the first impressions, the phone seems to offer the best of both worlds – premium and midrange. Therefore, it would make a worthy package if launched in the mid-tier range of below Rs 40,000. The phone is expected to launch at 12 noon today, and the event would be livestreamed on Honor India’s official social media channels on Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. As for the specifications, the Honor View 20 is powered by Huawei’s Kirin 980 SoC...

Honor 8X , the handset from the stable of Chinese smartphone brand Honor, an online subsidiary of Huawei, is a recent addition to the company’s mid-range line-up. It is the first Honor-branded smartphone to be powered by HiSilicon Kirin 710. However, it is not only the new breed of processor that makes this device special. Priced at Rs 14,999 for the base model, with 4GB RAM and 64GB of internal storage, the Amazon-exclusive smartphone has a little bit of everything for everyone.  Let’s look at the phone’s specifications before getting into review details: Display : 6.5-inch, fullHD+ resolution, 19.5:9 aspect ratio Camera : Rear: 20MP+2MP | Front: 16MP Processor : HiSilicon Kirin 710 Operating system : EMUI 8.2 based on Google Android Oreo 8.1 RAM : 4GB and 6GB Storage : 64GB and 128GB, expandable up to 400GB via microSD Battery : 3,750 mAh Design The last two generation smartphones in the Honor X-series had a run-of-the-mill design. The 8...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei's sub-brand Honor on October 3 announced some exciting offers on its smartphones during the Flipkart Big Billion Day sale. The aim is to sell one million devices during the festive-season sale starting from October 11 on the e-commerce platform. In the sale, the company would be offering discounts, along with bank offers, on Honor-branded smartphones like the Honor 9N, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 7S, Honor 9i, Honor 10 and Honor 7A. As part of its sale offers, the company has announced price reduction on the above-mentioned smartphones and their variants. The company also announced a 10 per cent instant discount to HDFC Bank debit and credit card customers and no-cost equated monthly instalments on Bajaj Finserv cards. Also Read >> Flipkart Big Billion Day sale offers The sale offers are valid across Honor-branded smartphones and their variants, including the Honor 9N, Honor 7A, Honor 7S, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 9i and Honor 10. In...

Even in the absence of a new product line-up and sluggish demand for iPhone X in a few countries, Cupertino-based technology giant Apple has managed to lead the global premium smartphone segment, followed by South Korean electronics giant Samsung in the second quarter. Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus, which became the top smartphone brand in India surpassing Apple and Samsung in the premium smartphone segment, also made it to the list of top five. becomes most profitable phone for Apple In comparison, OnePlus entered the top 5 in the global premium smartphone segment with a market share of two per cent. Interesting to note, the company surpassed Apple and Samsung to become the top premium smartphone OEM in India during the quarter with a strong 40 per cent market share. ALSO READ: OnePlus shows Apple how to become the India's top smartphone seller Article Source >> Business Standard

The Honor 9N shares its technical specifications with other Honor budget smartphones. However, in terms of design and features, the phone offers a refreshing new experience Technology News : Honor, the online sub-brand of the Chinese smartphone maker Huawei , has been aggressively pushing its new smartphones in India. As a result, the company recently becamme one of the fastest-growing smartphone brands in the country, according to the Counterpoint research. A new addition to the company’s budget smartphone portfolio, the Honor 9N, sports a notch-based screen, a first for the company’s budget profile. However, there is more to the phone than just the new screen format. The Honor 9N sports a premium glass design, dual rear cameras and a modern 19:9 aspect ratio notch-based screen. Importantly, the phone comes in three RAM and storage configurations – 3GB/32GB, 4GB/64GB and 4GB/128GB. It shares its technical specifications with other Honor budget smartphones, but in term...

The Honor 10 lacks an optimized notch screen and stereo speakers, but the sleek look and fast performance, coupled with top-notch innards, make it a winner in the mid-range flagship segment                               Technology News : Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei’s online subsidiary   Honor   on May 15 announced the artificial intelligence-based   Honor   10 in India. Priced at Rs 32,999, the smartphone boasts some of the premium design elements and features of the recently launched Huawei   P20 Pro  glass-metal-glass sandwich design, notch-based screen, AI camera, etc, which which make it a cost-effective alternative to premium flagships. However, being a mid-range device, the   Honor   10 cuts down on features like the Leica-tuned camera lenses, vivid AMOLED screen or the dual stereo speakers of the P20 Pro. But, it does sport a 3.5mm audio jack,...

While the One plus 6 is set to be unveiled on May 17 and would go on sale starting May 21, exclusively on Amazon, the Honor 10 would be unveiled on May 15 and go on sale starting May 16 on Flipkart Technology News : Chinese smartphone manufacturers   One Plus   and Honor are gearing up to launch their flagship smartphone – the   One plus   6 and Honor 10 – in India this week. While the   One plus 6 is set to be unveiled on May 17   and go on sale starting May 21, exclusively on Amazon, the   Honor 10 would be unveiled on May 15 and go on sale starting May 16 on   Flipkart.   Both the smartphones would compete in the mid-range flagship segment. One Plus 6 The phone will be powered by   Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 system-on-chip (SoC) and have a 256GB storage variant paired with 8GB of RAM. The mid-range smartphone is also expected to have 64GB and 128GB variants, paired with 6GB of RAM. One Plus has been teasing the features o...