Honor has launched a new flip phone today, the Magic V Flip 2, and it arrives with a sparkly special edition in partnership with fashion designer Jimmy Choo.
The former Huawei subsidiary has partnered with Choo before, for last year’s V Flip, and has kept to a similar formula this year, swapping glittery green for a brilliant blue. It also comes with custom wallpapers that are somehow even less subtle than the phone itself, an engraved hinge that’s oddly insistent on using Choo’s full name and titles, and a pair of sparkling cases so you can keep the phone both safe and shiny.
The phone itself looks pretty impressive, and also comes in non-Choo versions in purple, white, or gray. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip inside isn’t quite top tier, but the full-size OLED cover screen is. It’s also got a 5,500mAh battery — pretty enormous for a flip phone, thanks to compact silicon-carbon tech — and supports 80W wired charging and 50W wireless. Water- and dust-resistance caps out at IP58/59 though, so the Pixel 10 Pro Fold’s IP68 exclusivity holds for now.
The V Flip 2 is available to preorder now, but only in China. If you’re hankering for a glittery flip phone but don’t live in China, there’s always Motorola’s Swarovski gem-encrusted Razr, set to launch soon. Meanwhile Honor itself has a London launch event on August 28th planned for its larger Magic V5, currently the world’s thinnest book-style foldable.
