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Circle to Search has emerged as one of the year’s most low-key useful Android tools, and after early availability on Samsung and Google smartphones, it’s been getting ready to spread to more and more. Following the release of OS 3.0, Nothing now shares that Circle to Search is available on the Nothing Phone 2, Phone 2a, and Phone 2a Plus.

Despite those flaws, I still really like what Honor's achieved here. The Magic V3 has set the overall standard for building foldable phones, and hopefully other companies will follow its example going forward. And perhaps the coming year's assumed Magic V4 will be able to break boundaries once again.