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As it stands, most of the attempts at AI by OEMs are mostly focused on voice. Have your phone be able to respond to your questions through Siri or the Google Assistant. Sure, we’ve seen attempts by Samsung at making the user interface more intelligent with features like Smart Stay and others, but many of these died as ghimmicks that people cared little about in future iterations of Galaxy phones. Today Huawei’s Honor brand wants to give this a stab one more time with its new Honor Magic.

Some of the tricks the new Magic can do include improved facial recognition. This extends to the fact that the phone can detect what face is staring at the phone, and only serve notifications to the device’s owner. Notifications are now enhanced to include useful information like tickets, package tracking, etc, more like what Google Now can do. The phone can also tell when you’re in the dark and prompt you with a flash light button, and based on user content, can also recommend services for chats, directions, etc.

Oh, and did I mention that the phone’s design is gorgeous? It’s got a wedge design all over, dual 12 megapixel cameras, and powerful internals like a Kirin 950 processor, a new 5.09-inch 2K display, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. About the only things wrong with it is that it’s still running Marshmallow, and another is that it won’t leave China for now. We’ll keep you posted as we learn more.

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It’s late in 2016 and all these Chinese manufacturers have started to get conceptual on us. And no, not like those gastropubs that inject nitrogen into ground meat and ground peas into dust for you to inhale.

One of those OEMs is said to be Huawei subsidiary Honor. A trip to its Chinese site these days will lead you to a splash GIF, showing off a world of mysticism and whatnot, along with teaser text to expect big things with the “Honor Magic” on December 16.

Now, what could Honor be talking about? And why is Honor, not Huawei, bringing this concept phone to us?

Well, it’s believed by Weibo tech talkers that Huawei wanted to reduce its risk in introducing what’s rumored to be a phone that has a curved display from Samsung, a battery that fills up halfway with five minutes on the charger and, most importantly, no camera nor speaker on the device body. It set the launch of this “Magic” apart from the company’s more traditional Mate 9 releases and moved its domain to the edgier Honor brand.

We’re not entirely sure if we’re talking about a complete ecosystem of modular, attachable accessories. Perhaps these limited accessories are freewheeeling (and none of those factors are mutually exclusive from each other), but if the rumors pull through, then we are definitely out of the range of the Moto Z.

Sit tight, this is going to be a crazy December… at least, in China.

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