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Honor Magic 2 review: Slider phone with six cameras and Kirin 980.

SpecEagle Editorial·Oct 2018·$570
Overall
76/100
Class rank
#43 of 138
Tier
Flagship
Buy?
At the right price
The verdict, up front

The six-camera slider.

Honor Magic 2 used a magnetic slide-up mechanism to hide three front cameras, achieving an all-screen face with Kirin 980 power and 40W charging — a bold experimental flagship from Honor's Huawei era.

01Display

82/100

82/100 puts it above the 80-point average for flagship phones of 2018.

TypeSuper AMOLED, magnetic slider, all-screen
Size6.39 inches
Resolution1080 x 2340 px
FingerprintUnder-display

02Camera

76/100

76/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.

Rear16 MP + 24 MP mono + 16 MP ultrawide
Front (under slider)16 MP + 2 MP depth + 2 MP TOF

03Performance

82/100

At 82/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2018 — 6 points above the cohort average.

ChipsetKirin 980 (7nm)
GPUMali-G76 MP10

04Battery

76/100

76/100 puts it above the 72-point average for flagship phones of 2018.

Capacity3500 mAh
Charging40W SuperCharge

05Build

78/100

78/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.

What works
  • Magnetic slider hides six cameras
  • Kirin 980 + 40W charging in 2018
  • All-screen face + under-display fingerprint
What doesn't
  • Slider mechanism adds weight
  • Mono speaker
  • Magic UI niche
Cross-shop it against
Galaxy Note 10+
$1099 · score 90/100

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 138-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .