Every manufacturer’s goal is to make sure that their devices are the first ones you consider having in your hands, over whatever the competition might be providing. The foldable market is the newest one to emerge in what has been a mostly stagnant smartphone market for the last several years.
Considering that the foldable segment is still new, companies are struggling to provide the best products with the best value to win you over early. Samsung, based on the magic of its brand name, hasn’t had to work as hard. Well, that certainly makes it baffling that Sam Sung would admit that the new Honor Magic V3 is better than what they have, right?
Honor Proudly Tells Us That Sam Sung Agrees Its Magic V3 Is The Best Foldable Phone Out There
Just a few days ago, Honor’s exceptional Magic V3 foldable phone had its global launch at IFA 2024. It is too good a phone to be exclusive to China — that’s what we call being greedy. Considering it is the thinnest and lightest foldable out there, it is quite easy for us to see why it is coveted by many users and… um, manufacturers too, apparently?
That certainly seems to be the case, as Samsung has just admitted that the Honor Magic V3 is “definitely number one” and “easily the best foldable phone”. An exec must have slipped up during an interview. Internal documents must have been leaked. Someone is getting fired in the blink of an eye. I absolutely have to get my hands on this phone now.
Wait… hold on a second.
Well, my mistake. I just woke up. Sam Sung said that. Not Samsung. All it took was more than a second for me to notice the giant space separating the name. If you can’t see the obvious difference, it’s that one is the company we all know, and the other is a person that we don’t know — well, two people actually.
It’s Just A Quirky Marketing Tactic
Honor clearly had the genius idea to play around with the convenience of the South Korean manufacturer’s name’s similarity to real people’s names. The idea is to somehow fool us into thinking that the biggest smartphone manufacturer actually co-signed on its competitor’s device. It didn’t work for me. I wonder if it’ll work at all.
Some quotes from the two Sam Sungs, one a recruiter in Glasgow and the other a biomedical science graduate in London, include the following:
- “Easily the best foldable phone.”
- “This phone is so much thinner and lighter than my current phone.”
- “Definitely number one on my list of foldable phones.”
I mean, hey, I definitely don’t disagree with them that it’s likely a better buy than the Z Fold 6, on paper alone at least. But I bet this whole ploy is hardly going to be more than a thing that most people pass by and chuckle at.
Honor execs will probably be drowning in money at the end of the year, but I don’t think it’ll be because of this little prank of theirs. Next time, save the marketing budget — there’d have been a little more money to drown in.
