Honor’s Magic phone looks infinitely better than any of its devices released in the US
January 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
We covered the Honor Magic phone when it launched in China last month, and pointed out its sharp look and crazy AI features. The Magic can be set up so that it only displays notifications when your face is in front of it, for instance, and it can pop up information when it detects that you’re chatting about something that could use additional context, like movie times. Is this creepy? Maybe a little bit. Could it be useful? I’m sure.
I got a chance to do a mini hands-on with the Magic at CES this week. Unfortunately, none of its AI capabilities worked because the phone couldn’t connect to a US network, but I did go through the steps to set up facial identification for notifications. The setup process, which we tried to capture in my…
