To the great surprise of observers, Honor is preparing to market the V Purse, a smartphone that looks like a handbag.
The Honor V Purse wasn’t just a concept phone intended to create buzz during IFA 2023 in Berlin. The Chinese company has in fact presented the commercial brochure for the product, which includes not only the measurements of the V Purse, but also the price and specifications of this smartphone which fully embraces its desire to appeal to female consumers. In fact, when you’re not using it as a phone, it looks like a shoulder bag.
Honor wants to present its new one in its best light, and boasts of qualities supposed to suit the tastes of the fairer sex : the V Purse is thin, thinner than the Honor Magic V2, the record holder in the “foldable” category, with 8.6 mm thick when folded and 2.3 mm, at best, when it is folded. flat. That said, it is relatively heavy, at 214 grams on the scale. If in terms of look, the Honor V Purse has all the trappings of a haute couture accessory, thanks to the two external screens which allow you to personalize its appearance by imitating the textures of handbags, in particular, inside , the smartphone turns out to be a mid-range device.
The Honor V Purse is a pouch on the outside and a mid-range smartphone on the inside
A member of Twitter/X with the pseudonym Teme tells us a little more about this new smartphone: “The V Purse is being launched in China. Snapdragon 778G, 4500 mAh battery, 16 GB of RAM and 256 or 512 GB of storage. In Blue, White/Golden Black”. The processor embedded in the Honor V Purse already from 2021. It is found in phones such as the Xiaomi Poco X5 Pro and the Honor 60, versatile smartphones with good value for money which often focus on their design and the photo part.
The Honor V Purse is currently only sold in China at approximately €769 in its 16/256 version and approximately €847, for model 16/512. Will we have the opportunity to see it one day on our shelves in France? Nothing is less certain, as the designer of the Honor V Purse is original.
