Honor's Win2 Gaming Phone Puts Two Fans Inside, One Spinning at 31,000rpm, and Is Still Rated IP69K

A cooling fan in a phone isn’t new. Honor’s own Win RT2 has one. The Win2 has two. “The Win2 has not one but two built-in cooling fans,” GSMArena reported on October 21. “An upright cross-flow fan spins at up to 20,000rpm, while a side fan goes up to 31,000rpm, and Honor claims that together they deliver 284% more airflow than the original Win.” Honor launched that first Win in China last December.

The fans are there to keep the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 from slowing down when it heats up. The rest of the spec sheet is built for long sessions: a 6.89-inch 1440x3104 OLED at 185Hz with 10,000-nit peak brightness, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and a 10,100mAh battery “with 100W wired and 80W wireless charging.” The cameras are a 200MP main with OIS, a 12MP ultrawide and a 50MP selfie camera.

It also has “a customizable Win key, a light ring around the camera that reacts to games, an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, and stereo speakers.” Even with fans moving air inside, GSMArena lists “IP68/IP69/IP69K ratings for dust and water resistance.” “The phone is 8.5mm thick and weighs about 237g.”

	Honor Win2	Honor Win RT2	iQOO Neo12
Fans	Two: 20,000rpm and 31,000rpm	One, in the camera island	One, 59 blades
Battery	10,100mAh	12,070mAh	9,000mAh
Wired charging	100W, plus 80W wireless	90W	100W
Chip	Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6	Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5	Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5
Water rating	IP68, IP69, IP69K	IP69K	IP69
Starting price	CNY 5,499 ($822)	CNY 4,199 ($625)	CNY 4,199 ($630)

Honor’s own Win RT2, launched the same day, has one fan “within the rear camera island,” which Honor says “can reduce temperatures by up to 6 degrees Celsius under load,” and a bigger 12,070mAh battery for CNY 1,300 less. The iQOO Neo12, which launched in China a week later, has “the custom 59-blade fan that is claimed to have increased airflow by around 10%” and “a large 9,000mAh battery with 100W wired charging support.”

The Win2 is on pre-order in China in three colors, from CNY 5,499 for 12GB and 256GB up to CNY 7,999 (about $1,196) for 16GB and 1TB.

What Honor didn’t say. GSMArena’s report gives fan speeds and airflow but no noise figure, so there’s no way yet to know how loud 31,000rpm is next to your ear. It gives no update promise for MagicOS 11 on Android 17. And on availability: “It’s unclear when or if these will be available outside of China. Don’t get your hopes up though.”

What it means for anyone buying or importing a phone. The Win2 isn’t sold in the US, and a China-market phone imported here may miss carrier bands and US warranty service. For anyone who still wants one, the question to ask first is the one Honor didn’t answer: how loud the fans run at full speed.

Why now. The Win2 launched a week before the iQOO Neo12 and the same week as its own cheaper RT2 and Turbo2. Three of those four phones have a fan, so cooling hardware is now a line on the spec sheet, and Honor answered rivals with one fan by adding a second.

A fan inside a phone makes sense once a chip runs hot enough to slow itself down. The Win2 doubles the fan count and still claims IP69K. What’s missing from the launch is whether you can hear it. A fan at 31,000rpm moves a lot of air in a small space, and a gaming phone is held close to your face for hours. Until someone measures that, the spec sheet answers how cool it runs but not what it’s like to hold.

GSMArena counted “not one but two built-in cooling fans” in the Win2. Nobody has published how loud the pair runs yet.