Honor announces its third foldable of the year
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6FGVE)
The Magic VS2 shown folded and unfolded. | Image: Honor
Honor's Magic VS2 is the former Huawei sub-brand's third new foldable launch in four months, following the launch of the Magic V2 in July and the Magic V Purse last month. And that's without counting the international launch of the Magic VS earlier this year following its China release in 2022.
Unsurprisingly, given the space between launches, the Magic VS2 is not a total overhaul versus Honor's previous devices. It's ever so slightly lighter at 229 grams, versus 231 grams for the lightest variant of the Magic V2, but it's also slightly thicker when folded at 10.7mm. (The Magic V2 was between 9.9 and 10.1mm thick.) Interestingly, it's also running a previous-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 processor, while the V2 was powered...