Honor Magic 2 Teardown Reveals Its Magic Tricks

Vivo and OPPO have started the elevating camera trend but it seems that they have also ended it with the NEX S and Find X, respectively. Huawei sub-brand Honor and Xiaomi, on the other hand, have opted for a less eccentric solution to that same problem. With the Magic 2, Honor is jumping into the fray with the return of the slider phone. And despite not having a motor to power its gimmick, the smartphone's insides are just as interesting to see.

The Honor Magic 2 is basically made up of two halves, which actually makes the teardown process a tad more involved. Even if you get to the back have, which you could do with the usual application of heat, you will still find yourself locked out of the front half. And you might not even want to go that far unless absolutely necessary.

Most of the phone's components are thankfully in the back half of the Magic 2. That includes both logic and motherboards as well as both sets of cameras, back and front. Quite interesting is the 3,500 mAh battery which uses not one but two charging cables for a faster charging time. This is in contrast to OPPO whose R17 Pro packs two 1,850 mAh batteries so that each can be charged faster than one big 3,700 mAh pack.

The most interesting part of the phone is, of course, the sliding mechanism. The back and front are joined together at five parts to provide both stability and resilience when sliding. There are no motors here so durability is probably better than the Vivo NEX S or OPPO Find X. It's still a dangerously addictive fidget toy, though.

MyFixGuide, unfortunately, doesn't get to take apart the front half of the Honor Magic 2 for lack of tools. While more bare than the back, the front does have the in-screen fingerprint scanner. Suffice it to say, repairing the part that's most likely to break isn't going to be as straightforward as other phones.