April Fool's Day 2025: A Roundup of Hilarious Pranks from Honor, OnePlus, Meizu, Lenovo Legion, and Alipay

April Fool's Day 2025: A Roundup of Hilarious Pranks from Honor, OnePlus, Meizu, Lenovo Legion, and AlipayFirst up is Honor. This morning, Honor's official Weibo account announced an upcoming phone called "Power," boasting ultra-long battery life

April Fool's Day 2025: A Roundup of Hilarious Pranks from Honor, OnePlus, Meizu, Lenovo Legion, and Alipay

The first quarter of 2025 has officially ended, and April 1st, the annual April Fool's Day, has arrived. Major tech brands pulled out all the stops, staging a spectacular display of creative pranks. Let's take a look back at the hilarious surprises these companies delivered.

First up is Honor. This morning, Honor's official Weibo account announced an upcoming phone called "Power," boasting ultra-long battery life. The Weibo post repeatedly emphasized a "super duper duper duper large battery" and "battery life so long you won't use it all," jokingly offering to "charge everyone up." It also mentioned several power bank brands, hinting the phone might even charge power banks. Even more unexpectedly, Honor later posted that the phone could charge air conditioners, televisions, refrigerators, rice cookers, electric scooters, and even considered charging the Haval H6 PHEV electric car. While somewhat abstract, this was clearly a pre-launch campaign for a new phone with a massive battery and exceptionally long battery life. Definitely something to look forward to.

Next, OnePlus joined the April Fool's Day fun. At 9 AM, OnePlus suddenly announced a special product launch event at 10:30 AM, teasing a new product packed with "concentrated black technology." This instantly sparked widespread speculation online. OnePlus then released a video revealing the mysterious new product: a hammer called the "OnePlus Hammer"! According to the official introduction, this "OnePlus Hammer" possesses incredible abilities: it can reshape molecular structures and utilize quantum entanglement to shrink objects without altering their inherent energy, maintaining their original functionality and performance. The video showed the hammer shrinking various objects while preserving their functions. Ultimately, OnePlus used this "magical hammer" to create a new phone called the "Small Screen Big Monster" the OnePlus 13T. The video and the "OnePlus Hammer" were a clever pre-launch campaign for the OnePlus 13T, launching later this month.

Meizu, another smartphone manufacturer, also chose to use an April Fool's Day prank to hype its new product. Today, Meizu announced a "Ares Note 16" a cross-generational AI silicon-based robot. The description included details like "passionate red + boundless black color scheme, a 10:16 tall and slender golden figure, a Titan shield alloy architecture that resists 9100t of pressure, and a boundless perception system integrating a night god camera and other full-modal configurations." Meizu used a series of technologically advanced descriptions to paint a futuristic image of an AI silicon-based robot, further mystifying it with the similar model number to the Meizu Note 16 series, generating anticipation for the upcoming Meizu Note 16 series. This was a successful marketing strategy, satisfying consumers' curiosity about novelties while effectively promoting its upcoming products.

Lenovo Legion started its "pre-heating" on April Fool's Day evening, announcing the launch of a "new Legion Ancient Customized 2500W laptop." According to the introduction, this laptop would be Legion's "first bronze laptop," using a "Samsung reactor battery," and because they "forgot to remove the original square port during design, a custom square port to rice cooker adapter cable was included." Even funnier, the official statement claimed the laptop "has 810 sutras built-in, mining 1908 merit points per second." This series of hilarious descriptions gave the "Ancient Custom" laptop a mysterious and amusing feel, successfully attracting the attention of many consumers.

OPPO released a cube-shaped smartphone called the OPPO X on April Fool's Day. This bold design concept challenged the boundaries of traditional phone shapes, sparking heated discussions among netizens. While it's unclear if this phone will be mass-produced, OPPO's creative prank added humor and generated buzz for the brand.

Finally, Alipay also joined the April Fool's Day fun. Alipay announced its upcoming product the Meow Machine iMoneyCat, claiming it "achieves the world's first truly lucky beckoning cat" and "features a built-in ZFB lucky chip, attracting wealth 24/7." Alipay's "lucky cat" product, with its unique creativity and humorous presentation, successfully garnered widespread attention from netizens.

As the evening arrived, the April Fool's Day pranks from various brands largely concluded. These companies, through creative marketing campaigns, not only brought joy to consumers but also effectively promoted their upcoming products. These creative and humorous April Fool's Day campaigns undoubtedly added a touch of brightness to the mundane routine. We look forward to more surprises and innovation from these brands in the future.