Honor 50 release date is likely June, and you might actually be able to buy it

Honor used to be a pretty big player in the smartphone world, but after the Huawei ban affected it as well as its parent company, we started to forget about it – the company is about to hit the headlines once again though, and its new Honor 50 series could change its fortunes.

In a press release regarding the new Snapdragon 778G chipset, Honor confirmed its upcoming 50-series line would use the processor – that would be quite a dry news story, but the release also hints at a few other things about the phone.

The actual name of the phone being confirmed is big news, as there wasn’t actually an Honor 40 – just the Honor View 40. It seems we’re skipping the Honor 40 and Honor View 50, then.

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