India-first product in works, local manufacturing on anvil: Huawei’s Honor

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei’s digital brand Honor is set to introduce its MagicBook 15 notebook in India on July 31. Along with it, the company will also bring its Honor 9A and Honor 9S smartphones to the country, as it prepares to go aggressive on its ‘1+8+N’ product strategy announced late last year.

The MagicBook 15’s India model will be similar to the notebook’s global model, powered by American chipmaker AMD’s Ryzen 3-series processors and Microsoft Windows 10 Home operating system. It would be the first Honor-branded laptop in India, and the company would also bring its other notebooks, including the Intel processor-powered notebooks, to the country, said Honor India President Charles Peng in an interaction with Business Standard.