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Honor isn’t the first to have its camera array slide out – the Vivo Nex did it first with a single camera pop-up, while the Oppo Find X had the whole back of the phone slide up – but it is the first to make it manual. Rather than the cameras sliding up when you open the camera up, you have to physically push the screen down to access the selfie cameras, which quickly becomes a surprisingly compulsive physical tic. This is the first phone to hit the market with the manual slider, but look out for it in the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 and Lenovo Z5 Pro soon too. There’s a satisfying ‘click’ to the motion that harks back to the slider phones of the ‘90s and ‘00s, and if you’re anything like us you’ll find yourself absent-mindedly sliding the phone up and down for no good reason. We’ve got no idea how long the phone will survive this sort of abuse, and what might happen if and when the mechanism gives out, but that’s always the risk you take with novel designs like this. One small note on that slider though: the speaker used for phone calls sits behind it, and while there’s a small grille on the front to allow audio through when closed, it’s pretty muffled. You can have a phone call like that, but really you’ll always want to slide the screen down before you pick up – the difference in audio quality is noticeable.

The loudspeaker is down on the bottom edge though, so audio for music or video is unaffected. Beyond the sheer satisfaction of sliding day-in, day-out, the best thing about the design is that it leaves the front of the phone to be all screen, corner to corner. There’s a thin bezel all the way round, with a slightly thicker chin on the bottom, but otherwise this is an uninterrupted display. And as a full HD 6.39in AMOLED, it’s a hell of a display too. It’s not the brightest screen we’ve seen this year, capping out at 386cd/m2, but the contrast and colour range are both excellent, and colours pop throughout.

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It really feels vibrant, and it’s enough to make you glad that there’s no notch or bezelling to get in the way of it all. If the front’s all fancy, the back of the phone is pretty much par for the course for Honor – which is to say a glass finish (this time in a gradient finish with your choice of pink, black, or blue) only interrupted by the triple rear camera. Despite the glass there’s no wireless charging, nor any waterproofing – two features Honor continues to omit to help it hit those competitive price points. And if Honor’s design is beginning to feel a bit familiar, that’s only because it works. Sliding into view Slide that slider back and you get to the Magic 2’s next big selling point: it’s triple selfie camera, backed up by a triple rear camera too. Unfortunately, despite all those lenses, photos aren’t all that much to write home about. Selfies fare better – the main 16MP lens is enough to take decent stills and capture video at 1080p, while Honor’s packed in the usual array of AR and AI effects to buff things up a little.

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The other two lenses don’t do all that much for photos, but play their part in the phone’s face unlock, which is fast, reliable, and even performs well in challenging lowlight conditions. Best of all you can set it to trigger as soon as you slide the screen down, and the hidden cameras mean you’ll never accidentally unlock your phone when you don’t mean to. That’s backed up by an in-display fingerprint sensor, but this is a little less reliable. Registering the first print took a few minutes and a lot of error messages, and subsequent scans were slow and failed a little too often for our liking. That’s true of most in-display scanners, but that doesn’t make it any less irritating while this tech is in its infancy.

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Anyway, back to those cameras.

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