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Mobile World Congress has brought us many great products, but we are especially excited that Honor is launching the Magic Vs (pronounced v-s and not 5-s or “versus”) to a global audience.

The Honor Magic Vs is Honor’s foldable nemesis to the Samsung Galaxy ZFold4. The Honor Vs was launched in China in late November with good specifications and significant improvements in hinge durability and battery capacity,

Now, this fantastic foldable smartphone is launching “globally,” which means it can be produced at a higher volume, and users in select non-China markets might be lucky enough to get their hands on this device.

Looking at it, you can probably guess that the Honor Magic Vs is a competitor of the Samsung Galaxy ZFold4. We’re still compiling the data for our full review, but there are very few alternatives to the Samsung Galaxy ZFold4, and the Honor Magic Vs is one of them. Hence, its global availability is essential to every potential user in addressed markets.

The Honor Magic Vs has many technical features that folding phones fans should notice. Here are Magic Vs features that are better than the ZFold4:

• 9″ vs. 7.6 display size
• slightly higher processor frequency
• 12GB of RAM vs. 8GB
• larger battery capacity, 2.5X faster charge speed

The ZFold4 has specific advantages, too, such as the external display and desktop support with Dex and the Samsung S-Pen support, but Honor has an objectively great claim to make because it does have features users tend to care a lot about.

Ultimately, the Honor Vs will probably address a slightly different market where the e-Pen or Desktop mode is not that important. Honor might have a better value proposition for these users, given its specifications.

More importantly, it will spark healthy competition with legacy folding phones OEMs that will benefit every consumer. The Honor Magic Vs is the obvious sizeable foldable alternative at an attractive price for this category.

The Honor Magic Vs will be available with 12GB+512GB in Black and Blue for €1599.

Honor Magic Vs Goes Global @ MWC 2023

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After a wave of teasers, OnePlus has revealed its latest experimental phone — and this time the features are more practical than in the past. The OnePlus 11 Concept centers on “Active CryoFlux” liquid cooling that mimics what you see in some gaming PCs. The system uses a piezoelectric ceramic micropump to send cooling fluid throughout pipelines in the phone (visible on the outside) without “significantly” increasing the phone’s bulk.

The result is a slight but tangible performance improvement, OnePlus claims. The company says the temperature drop boosts games by up to three to four frames per second, and reduces charging times by 30 to 45 seconds. Those figures won’t have you rushing to replace your existing phone, but may help wring the full potential out of an upgrade.

After that, the differences versus the standard OnePlus 11 are mostly cosmetic. The conspicuous pipelines and blue LED lighting are the most obvious changes, but you’ll also find a camera hump with intricate guilloché engraving similar to what you’d find on the dial of a luxury watch.

The OnePlus 11 Concept won’t enter production. However, it won’t be surprising if the liquid cooling and design techniques find their way to future phones. No, this won’t match the raw cooling power found in high-end gaming phones, but it might make OnePlus more enticing if you want above-average speed without carrying a brick in your pocket.

Sure to be this spring’s must-have car fashion accessory (don’t quote me on that), these handmade fleece gearshift hoodies from Etsy shop ShotStarPro make it appear your shift lever wants to prevent a cold start in style.  Available in seven colors (black, grey, white, pink, red, orange, and blue), the hoodies are one-size-fits-most automatic and manual gearshift knobs (save the manuals!) up to 4″ to 5″ tall and up to 3″ wide.

Have a larger gearshift knob? You’re just going to have to knit a sweater for it on your own. If these aren’t featured in the new Fast & Furious movie, I’m going to be sorely disappointed.

Am I going to get my car a gearshift hoodie for its next birthday? Maybe, but first, I’d have to find my gearshift knob, which, last I saw it, was rolling under the passenger seat after it came off during some particularly spirited shifting.

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Back in December, I got to play with Honor’s second foldable, the Magic VS, but the first one it will sell in the West. It was a Chinese-market prototype with several rough edges, but even so, it made a fairly compelling case for its own existence. Now, three months later, the company has rocked up to MWC with the finished version that’s intended to be sold on this side of the equator. The big news is the price, which is pegged at €1,599 (around $1,690) for the one model, with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage, the same as Samsung’s Z Flip 4. The only difference is that, with Samsung’s handset, you’ll get 12GB RAM but only 256GB storage.

When I spent a few days with the handset, I found plenty of features that merited praise, like the fact it folds flat. Certainly, Honor feels that its second-generation hinge, which keeps the handset tidy in your pocket, is worthy of shouting about. And it has promised that the hinge will withstand 400,000 folds before conking out, and you’ll find yourself gravitating towards that internal screen more than you might expect. While not as well-equipped as the 6.45-inch exterior screen, the 7.9-inch foldable OLED is good enough to sit back and enjoy a movie, or your emails, with. And it’s fast enough to run pretty much anything you’d want to throw at it without breaking much of a sweat.

If there’s one wrinkle, it’s that these devices may not be the future of foldables as much as the narrower, more fashionable clamshells. Devices like Oppo’s Find N2 and Samsung’s latest Z Flip are both more pocket-and-wallet-friendly than their swole counterparts. And that counts for a lot for folks who don’t feel the need to whip out a small tablet when they’re scrolling Instagram. But for the sort of people who, like me, are nerdy enough to want a machine they could theoretically do some work from while on the go, the meatier versions are still king.