Honor’s new flip phone will go with your Jimmy Choos

Subtle, it is not. 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 t**les, 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.

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Honor’s new flip phone will go with your Jimmy Choos

Porsche’s Cayenne Coupe Turbo will even make 911 owners nervous

Local LLMs weren’t enough, so I use a two-tier system that keeps my sensitive stuff offline

I customized a MacBook Neo with colorful spare parts

Gemini’s Gmail integration sounds helpful until you realize what it can actually see

My monitor’s built-in USB hub was the desk upgrade I never knew I had

KDE Plasma 6.8 will scrap X11 sessions as 95% of its users just don’t use them anymore

Brave is charging $60 to remove features it added in the first place

I didn’t think Claude Pro was worth the subscription, but it’s now my personal movie and meal curator

Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer

007 First Light showed me why DLAA is the native 4K upgrade high-end GPU owners are sleeping on

Nvidia thinks my RTX 20-series GPU is too old for frame generation, but I use it through lossless scaling anyway

Smart plugs are secretly the best troubleshooting tools you already own

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