Article 5N87F Honor’s Magic 3 is its first post-Huawei flagship

Honor’s Magic 3 is its first post-Huawei flagship

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Jon Porter
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HONOR_Magic3_Pro_Front.0.jpg The Honor Magic 3 Pro. | Image: Honor

Honor has announced its first flagship smartphones since being sold off by former parent company Huawei: the Magic 3 series. The lineup consists of three phones, the Magic 3, Magic 3 Pro, and Magic 3 Pro Plus. They're coming first to mainland China, but Honor says they're getting a global release at a later date.

When they launch globally, the phones will come with Google's apps and services, which Honor wasn't previously able to include while a subsidiary of Huawei due to US sanctions. It should make the Magic 3 series much more competitive outside of China compared to Honor's recent Huawei-era phones, which had to rely on Huawei's own services and AppGallery to download software. This setup came with significant drawbacks.

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