Is Honor quietly murdering the powerbank?

According to Digital Chat Station, Honor has put a 12,000mAh (rated 11,790mAh/43.86Wh) phone battery into trial production, which is suspected to be be featured on the upcoming Honor Power 3, or the Honor X series. With phone batteries only getting bigger, it's worth asking the dumb but real question: at what point does your phone battery become the power bank you can make calls with?

Anker seems to have sensed which way the wind is blowing. At the company's 2025 shareholders meeting, founder Steven Yang reportedly said that power banks could go the way of the dodo. It's a striking admission from a company practically synonymous with the category, but Anker has already been quietly derisking into other product lines. According to 36kr, power banks made up over 70% of its revenue back in 2017 but by 2025, that share had fallen below 12%.

The shift could be traced back to the Honor Magic5 Pro, the first phone to feature a silicon-carbon battery, a battery chemistry that let manufacturers pack far more capacity into the same volume. Since then, competitors have only piled into the battery capacity race, with 2026 marking the first entries into the 10,000mAh era, and the Honor WIN and WIN RT the first phones to reach that line. A phone that can last two days on a single charge and fast charge other devices at 27W doesn't need a power bank. It is the power bank.

The power bank isn't dying of old age. It's being replaced by the thing it used to charge.