Honor and the luxury design company Porsche Design recently announced a deal to collaborate on upcoming high-end smartphone designs. Not much was unveiled about said phones except that the first models are expected to arrive in January 2024.
As per a new leak, the first Porsche
Design models will probably be the Magic6 Pro and the Magic6 Porsche Design.
The leak comes from a Weibo user and features two different phone models. The
Magic6 Porsche Design, as depicted in the leaked image, has a two-note
horizontal design and what seems like a leather finish. Both the Honor and
Porsche Design logos are clearly visible on the back.
Next, we have the Magic6 Pro, which still
looks at least a bit like last year’s Magic5 Pro. The circular camera cluster
looks to be a bit tighter this year and is notably complete with an
accelerometer-inspired design on the outer diameter of the island. In our
opinion, it’s a bit tacky, but we can see an audience for it. As far as we
currently know there will pe three “mainline” Honor6 models – the vanilla
Honor6, the Honor6 Pro and the Honor6 Ultimate. It is yet to be seen whether
each of these devices will also get a separate Porsche Design edition. Mind
you, there already is a Magic6 Lite, which is a rebranded Honot X9b and
probably won’t be getting the Porsche Design treatment.
We do have some early tipped specs for
some of the Magic6 devices. The Pro model is expected to have a QHD OLED
display and a pill-shaped cutout for a dual selfie camera. The latter will
likely be incorporated into a Smart Island notification features. Also on the
specs sheet is a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset and potentially a dedicated
graphics and security chip. The regular Magic6 is expected to debut an
interesting 160MP periscope zoom camera as well as variable aperture on its
main OV50H or OV50K camera. 66W wired charging is also in the cards.
