As the brand's latest flagship smartphone, the HONOR Magic Vs model stands as a showcase of cutting-edge flip phone technology. With a strong focus on hinge design and engineering, they provide a new solution to the pain points of today's foldable phones.
With the advent of foldable smartphones, this technology revolutionized global markets. The hinge plays a crucial role, as it determines the proper functioning of the screen's folding and unfolding , the space between the screens when the device is folded, the device's durability, and the overall user experience. And in this regard, Honor introduces its latest innovation for this sector.
Honor innovates with its new gearless hinge for folding phones
HONOR has invested resources in R&D to transform hinge technology and set a new standard for the foldable smartphone market. This is how they have achieved a hinge that is characterized by its lightness without gears, thanks to the one-piece casting technology that debuts in the HONOR MAGIC Vs moidelo.
Traditionally, gears are used to allow the screen to fold, but this makes the device heavier and thicker . In the case of this new, super-lightweight, gearless hinge on the HONOR Magic Vs, it's manufactured using the industry's first one-piece die-casting technology. This drastically reduces the number of support structure components used in the hinge mechanism, from 92 to just 4. In addition to achieving a lightweight hinge, this ensures smooth rotation.
This hinge folds into a gap-free design, thus solving the weak point of other folding smartphones. By not showing openings it becomes thinner. With less hinge size, it manages to give the HONOR Magic Vs a 5.000 mAh battery, the largest capacity ever seen in a foldable smartphone.
After testing materials ranging from metals such as aluminum, steel, and titanium to non-metals, including carbon fibers and plastics, HONOR decided to use aerospace-grade polymeric material to ensure its functionality and strength. To provide the hinge with a firm and secure structure, its components were fused together with micrometer precision. Its gearless design means that each part of the hinge supports the load equally and evenly when folding and unfolding the device. With all this, the possibility of components loosening during use is minimized, as has been seen in other models in extreme tests.
