Honor Magic V Flip 2 tipped to launch with older silicon than Motorola Razr Plus 2025
Honor unleashed its inaugural clamshell foldable smartphone in June 2024, and is now tipped to follow up with its successor at around the same time in 2025.
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was the world's top-end Qualcomm silicon option for Android devices like the Magic V Flip at the time of its launch - however, the compact horizontally-folding handset debuted with the older 8+ Gen 1 instead.
The "V Flip 2" might make up for that compromise - albeit to a certain extent. A new leak suggests that it will be equipped with the same 8 Gen 3 silicon, while its full-sized flagship Magic V4 counterpart progresses to the same Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC as the new, top-end Oppo Find N5.
One might argue that the slightly older 8 Gen 3 might work well enough for a smartphone of the Magic V Flip 2's size; however, its immediate rival the Motorola Razr+ 2025 is tipped to support the 8 Elite upgrade, as is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip7, not to mention the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2.
Therefore, it now looks like the second-gen Honor clamshell might focus on style over specs again. On that note, one of the OEM's foldable smartphones will have a decent periscope zoom lens in 2025 - now, it seems more likely to be the Magic V4 rather than the V Flip 2.
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