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Chinese smartphone giants Honor and Xiaomi show AI’s vast market potential at MWC Barcelona to challenge Samsung, other global rivals

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Chinese smartphone giants Honor and Xiaomi show AI’s vast market potential at MWC Barcelona to challenge Samsung, other global rivals

At a nearby booth in the same MWC Barcelona exhibition floor, Xiaomi displayed its new flagship handset model, the 14 Ultra, which features enhanced photography features and AI capabilities. The handset’s AI Album Search function employs natural language processing that enables users to locate specific images within their collections based on a prompt describing them, … Read more

I moved a car with my eyes, and it blew me away

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I moved a car with my eyes, and it blew me away

Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends The Honor Magic 6 Pro comes equipped with a feature called “Magic Capsule,” which is essentially a way to gaze through notifications without touching your phone. It’s a bit similar to Apple’s Dynamic Island but with a catch. Here, you expand the notifications without even touching your phone. You do … Read more

China’s Honor bets on AI smartphones for global growth ahead of an expected market rebound

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China’s Honor bets on AI smartphones for global growth ahead of an expected market rebound

Chinese smartphone maker Honor, a spin-off from Huawei Technologies, is counting on artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise how users interact with its smartphones and help it gain more ground amid intensifying global competition. Honor CEO George Zhao Ming laid out the company’s new AI strategy at a launch event in Barcelona on Sunday, which involves … Read more

Honor just launched a phone that could kill the Galaxy S24 Ultra

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Honor just launched a phone that could kill the Galaxy S24 Ultra

Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 is home to countless smartphone announcements, including a couple from Honor. At the event, we learned that both the Honor Magic 6 Pro and Magic V2 RSR (Porsche Edition) are going global. While the company is pushing AI capabilities of the former, the special edition … Read more

China’s foldable smartphone shipments more than double in 2023, as Huawei continues to lead the growing handset segment

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China’s foldable smartphone shipments more than double in 2023, as Huawei continues to lead the growing handset segment

Foldable phone shipments in mainland China more than doubled last year in spite of overall weakness in the world’s largest smartphone market, with Huawei Technologies remaining the country’s top vendor in this growing handset segment. Mainland shipments of foldable smartphones reached 7.01 million units last year, up 114 per cent from 3.2 million in 2022, … Read more

Huawei reclaims top spot in China’s smartphone sales ranking, its first time back since company was added to US blacklist

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Huawei reclaims top spot in China’s smartphone sales ranking, its first time back since company was added to US blacklist

Huawei Technologies climbed back to the No 1 spot of China’s smartphone market in the initial two weeks of this year, according to a report by research firm Counterpoint, putting more pressure on 2023 industry leader Apple and major mainland rivals in the world’s largest handset market. This marks the first time Huawei reclaimed the … Read more

Honor X9b display features confirmed ahead of India launch

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Honor X9b display features confirmed ahead of India launch

Honor X9b durability teased HTech says the Honor X9b is the first in the industry to receive a five-star overall drop resistance certification from Switzerland’s SGS. The handset is confirmed to sport a 6.78-inch 1.5K display with 429PPI, 1.07 billion colours, a 100 percent DCI-P3, 120Hz and 1920Hz PWM Dimming. The Ultra-Bounce Anti-drop Display technology … Read more

I’ve never used a folding phone like this one before

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I’ve never used a folding phone like this one before

Prakhar Khanna / Digital Trends Honor took its sweet time to bring the Magic V2 out of China – six months, to be precise. Given the amazing hardware, it’s been a long wait. I’ve had a test unit since July 2023, which didn’t have the software and cameras ready until earlier this month. After using … Read more

Samsung to integrate Baidu’s AI model into new Galaxy S24 handsets, as mainland Chinese rivals push new smartphones with similar tech

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Samsung to integrate Baidu’s AI model into new Galaxy S24 handsets, as mainland Chinese rivals push new smartphones with similar tech

Under a strategic partnership between Samsung’s China arm and Baidu AI Cloud, the recently unveiled Galaxy S24 series will deploy the Ernie LLM to perform the handset’s new “Circle to Search” feature that enables users on the mainland to search texts, images or videos via hand gestures, with results provided by the Chinese online search … Read more

Honor Magic V2 international release date and price revealed

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Honor Magic V2 international release date and price revealed

When we reviewed the Honor Magic V2 last summer, we told you that the biggest problem with the Chinese vendor’s paper-thin foldable was the limited availability. Priced at around $1,248.99 in China, the thinnest foldable phone in the world would not be available internationally — at least, not initially.  Fast-forward to late January, Honor has finally … Read more