These days one of the most important technology events is taking place, l'IFA 2018 of Berlin, where there are many producers including Honor, who launched the market during the eventHonor Play rival of POCOPHONE F1 but also announced the future Honor Magic 2 flagship with a "slide" design (to be clear as the old and dear Nokia) and powered by Huawei's Kirin 980 processor. A few minutes later the Xiaomi president's answer arrived, Lin Bin, who on his own Weibo social media published the image of the future Mi Mix 3, leaving everyone speechless for the splendor of the device, and even to do it on purpose, even Mi Mix 3 will adopt a sliding design while the availability to purchase is guaranteed by the end of October.
At this point the doubts are unleashed, because both Xiaomi XMOMX Mi Mix and Honor Magic 3 have at least two months before the official launch, so why show us the device already? Someone asked him to president of Honor, George Zhao, who replies that the company's team has preferred to show the Honor Magic 2 because a competitor has copied the design, perhaps alluding to Xiaomi with his Mi Mix 3.
Xiaomi for his Mi Mix 3 could have copied the design of Honor Magic 2?
From the image posted by Lin Bin, it seems that the Mi Mix 3 has a sliding mechanism that must be managed manually by the user, similar to that of Honor Magic 2. In addition to published the image of the phone and reveal the details of the availability, Lin Bin does not leak anything else about the Mi Mix 3, from cu we expect at least a AMOLED display, Snapdragon 845 processor, up to 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of internal storage.
We can not take the defense of either company, which apparently are fierce rivals, after all in the past it was Honor herself who copied Xiaomi on simple things like the Mi Explorers program, from which she even shamelessly copied the presentation poster of the initiative, but this does not mean say that Xiaomi is exempt from such "incorrect" procedures. The thing that puzzles instead is that most likely Honor has also copied someone else. Indeed last October, the OPPO company filed the incriminated sliding mechanism as a patent, indeed even 2 are the patents, one of which is manual sliding and the other of automatic type.
Oppo has not only released the final project for institutional purposes, but has also experimented with the design of the sled mentioned in the patent, the design schemes of the front linkage and the double screen. The current state, Oppo FindX is the only mass-produced smartphone from which others may have drawn inspiration while the Honor Magic 2 does not even have a listing plan unlike Xiaomi's XIXX Mi Mix which should begin sales in October. One thing is certain, the slider seems to be the fashion of 2018 / 2019, in fact also other manufacturers like Blackberry, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and other brands have released Android phones with sled deisgn, while other prototypes are coming as the Doogee MIX 4.
