Honor’s Magic 2 hides its selfie camera behind a retro sliding screen

Honor’s Magic 2 hides its selfie camera behind a retro sliding screen

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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/31/18047084/honor-magic-2-sliding-screen-release-date-news-features

Honor’s Magic 2 phone is finally official. The handset, which features a bezel-less screen that slides down to reveal a front-facing camera, was previously teased with a short trailer that showed it being used to drum out a beat on a table. (Honor has yet to confirm whether drumming damage will be covered under warranty.)

The main event here is the sliding design, which can be used to automatically open the camera app when the 16MP selfie camera is revealed. The design means that the 6.39-inch AMOLED display achieves a screen-to-body ratio of close to 100 percent, which is further helped by its use of an in-display fingerprint sensor. The selfie camera is joined by a 24MP triple-lens rear camera array. Internally, the phone has the same high-end Kirin 980 that we recently saw on Huawei’s Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro. Here, it’s flanked by either 6GB or 8GB of RAM and 128GB or 256GB of onboard storage with a 3,400mAh battery.