Leaker outlines Honor's smartphone release plans for new 10,000 mAh silicon battery

A few days have passed since leaker Digital Chat Station claimed that Honor would soon be embarking on its first 10,000 mAh-backed smartphone. Now, evidence of the device's existence has turned up on the China Quality Certification Centre (CQC) public database. As the photo below shows, Sunwoda has manufactured a battery for Honor with a rated capacity of 9,886 mAh.

Also packing 37.37 Wh of energy, Honor is likely to advertise this battery as offering a circa 10,000 mAh typical capacity to eclipse the 8,000 mAh battery it brought out with the Honor Power in April. Currently, WhyLab anticipates that Honor could use this new battery technology inside the Power 2 or the X80. Writing on Weibo, the leaker adds that both smartphones may launch before the end of the year, which would be earlier than Digital Chat Station's previous expectations.

In the meantime, the latter leaker previously indicated that the Power 2 will complement this battery with a MediaTek Dimensity 8500 chipset and a 1.5K display. Ultimately, a 10,000 mAh battery inside a smartphone is nothing groundbreaking. For example, Doogee crammed a 22,000 mAh battery inside last year's V Max Pro (curr. $469 on Amazon). However, the Power 2 is rumoured to achieve just under half that capacity with a chassis that is around a third as thick at 8~9 mm, excluding its presumed camera housing.