{"id":767350,"date":"2024-04-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=767350"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:17:06","slug":"business-talk-honor-sa-general-manager-fred-zhou-unpacks-its-industry-leading-four-layer-architecture-of-ai-and-the-launch-of-the-flagship-magic-series-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/767350\/business-talk-honor-sa-general-manager-fred-zhou-unpacks-its-industry-leading-four-layer-architecture-of-ai-and-the-launch-of-the-flagship-magic-series-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 HONOR SA General Manager Fred Zhou unpacks its industry-leading Four-layer Architecture of AI and the launch of the flagship Magic Series in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Honor South Africa General Manager Fred Zhou discusses the local launch of the Honor Magic Series flagship smartphone range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honor was founded in 2013 and has quickly become a global leader in the consumer technology industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the biggest smartphone brand in China and boasts a significant international presence, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In South Africa, Honor grew its smartphone sales by approximately 600% in 2023 \u2013 mostly in the affordable and mid-range categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Magic Series launch is the next step in Honor\u2019s growth plan for South Africa, as it brings flagship Honor smartphones to the local market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhou begins the interview by discussing Honor&#8217;s incredible growth in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then unpacks Honor\u2019s new Magic Series smartphone range and predicts their popularity in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhou discusses the impressive technologies Honor has included in these smartphones, too, including their extensive implementation of AI-powered tools that align with HONOR\u2019s Four-layer Architecture of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zhou concludes the interview by expanding on the privacy features and pricing of the Honor Magic V2 and Magic6 Pro smartphones, and detailing Honor\u2019s goals for 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the interview with Fred Zhou below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-pscrfAXPs?si=oqyvVDR-kPSBqJ6n\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhou explains why the launch of the Honor Magic Series flagship smartphone range in South Africa is a milestone achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":767354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[19252],"class_list":["post-767350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-honor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767358,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767350\/revisions\/767358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}