Battery anxiety is real, at least for me; it definitely is. You know the feeling— you’re halfway through a long day, your phone drops to 20%, and suddenly every notification feels like a threat. Honor, apparently, has had enough of that and is going all-in on fixing it. Fresh out of China comes a leak from Digital Chat Station suggesting that Honor is in trial production of a new battery with a rated capacity of 10,690mAh, which translates to a typical capacity of 11,000mAh, for a smartphone. I’m quite excited.
This isn’t Honor’s first rodeo with enormous batteries
To be fair, Honor has been on a quiet rampage in the big-battery space for a while now. The Honor Power 2, launched earlier this year, already packs a 10,080mAh cell with 80W wired charging, enough to clock around 14 hours of gaming and over 17 hours of navigation on a single charge. Before that, the Honor Win and Win RT arrived in December last year with 10,000mAh batteries and an even more aggressive 100W wired charging speed. So when a tipster like Digital Chat Station hints on Weibo that an 11,000mAh battery is entering trial production, it doesn’t exactly come out of nowhere. Honor has been building up to this.
That part’s still a bit murky. The tipster didn’t name the device outright, but the comment section seems fairly confident it’s headed for a successor to the Honor Power 2, which would make it the Honor Power 3, presumably. Given the Power series’s entire identity revolves around endurance, it’s a logical fit. The Honor Power 2 itself is no slouch as a base to build on. It runs on a MediaTek Dimensity 8500 Elite chip, features a 6.79-inch 120Hz AMOLED display, and is rated IP66, IP68, IP69, and IP69 K. A phone that can survive a pressure wash and last two days on a charge sounds less like a smartphone and more like a survival tool.
The rest of the industry is playing catch-up, too
Honor isn’t alone in this battery arms race. OnePlus recently launched the Nord 6 with a 9,000mAh battery, and Realme threw in an 8,000mAh cell in the C100 4G. Brands are finally taking battery life seriously instead of shaving millimeters off thickness and calling it innovation. But 11,000mAh would put Honor in a league of its own, at least for now. That’s not just a large battery. That’s a battery that makes you question whether you even need a power bank anymore.
So, should you get excited? Cautiously, yes. Trial production means the hardware exists in some form, but it’s still early. What we do know is that Honor has the momentum, precedent, and, the engineering chops to pull this off. If the Power 3, or whatever it ends up being called, lands with an 11,000 mAh battery, fast charging, and a decent chip under the hood, it could redefine what “all-day battery” means.