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You've heard of the It Bag. Here's the IT Bag. HONOR's cute, clever and fantastically fashionable concept phone, the HONOR V Purse, is a glimpse of how technology can influence sustainable fashion. Our phones are our constant companions, and until very recently their form has been dictated by their function – so while they've been incredibly useful to use, they haven't exactly been incredibly exciting to look at. That got HONOR's engineers thinking: what if our phones were as fun and as fashion-forward as they are functional? What if, after replacing our wallets, our digital cameras and even our make-up mirrors, they became our everyday purses and bags too? The HONOR V Purse is the gorgeous and surprisingly practical result. You can't buy it. But it’s a glimpse of your phone’s fashionable future.

The HONOR V Purse is a cutting-edge combination of style and substance and a glimpse of your phone's fashionable future. At first glance it looks like a very beautiful purse made from precious metals, but look more closely and you'll see that the gems towards the top are camera lenses and the purse itself is a high-res display. Unclip the delicate D-shaped buckle and it becomes a big-screened smartphone with all the power you need; fold it and its external display becomes anything you want it to be, allowing you to match it to your mood, outfit, or more. This Always On Display means that the HONOR V Purse can completely transform with a tap of your finger, enabling it to change from day to night and from eye-catching to something a little more sober. It will support an almost limitless selection of always-on designs, enabling you to pair it perfectly with any outfit for any occasion, using gyroscope sensors, light sensors and more to make your ideas happen.

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You'd think each of these designs was a completely different purse, but incredibly they're all the same device – and inside it's as powerful as it's pretty. It may look high fashion but it's also high tech, a state-of-the-art smartphone building on HONOR’s current top-of-the-line tech. HONOR isn't just experimenting with its style. They're also experimenting with its substance, and challenging preconceived ideas of how a phone or wearable device should work. To that end they're working with new ways to interact including gyroscopes, light sensors and touch sensors to make the HONOR V Purse even more interactive - gyroscope sensors allow the display to move as you walk, and it can automatically read your calendar and update according to your schedule, switching from business to party mode without you having to go home to change your bag.

The HONOR V Purse is a concept, but it’s based on real technological trends: the way our phones are becoming the centre of our digital lives; the massive improvements in processing and graphics technology; and what’s become known as “phygital” objects that combine the physical and digital. Phygital goods are becoming a really big deal in the world of fashion, with big name brands blending the physical and the digital to create all-new experiences. It’s a fascinating conversation, and HONOR is at the very heart of it. Click here to discover how HONOR is combining tech, fashion and sustainability to create devices as practical as they are beautiful and make a brighter future for your phone.

YouTuber and dismantler of expensive tech, @JerryRigEverything, is pushing HONOR’s new flagship foldable to its limits. In recent years, the smartphone market has seen some exciting innovation – not least with HONOR’s first generation Magic V in 2022 – in its home market. Yet, nothing quite matches the leap forward for HONOR’s Magic Vs – a step change from the first generation and the first foldables foray into global markets. Foldable tech itself has graduated from a futuristic novelty to flagship material, thanks in no small part to huge improvements in hinge mechanisms – as seen in the likes of the HONOR Magic Vs. So are we about to see a new standard being set?

Propelling the design chops of the foldable revolution forward is the Super-light Gearless Hinge in the Magic Vs. The structure of the hinge can be clearly seen in JerryRigEverything's video. Carefully crafted using a single-piece casting process, the supporting structure of hinge now requires only 4 working components, compared with the 92 used in the Magic V. This means the screen is nearly completely flat when unfolded and has almost no gap when closed, elevating the folding standard above its closest competitors by giving a thinner, flatter look at 12.9mm.

Thanks to the reduced number of hinge components, the Magic Vs now has internal space for a 5,000mAh large battery. That clocks in at the highest capacity in a foldable smartphone, which enables it to power its stunning 6.45-inch AMOLED display. When unfolded, the internal 7.9-inch display turns the Magic Vs into a two-in-one device, offering a tablet-like experience as well as a smartphone.

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