After weeks of hyping it up, Honor immediately unveiled the Honor Magic V5 at an occasion in China as a successor to final 12 months’s Magic V3. The Magic V5 is an extremely skinny and lightweight foldable telephone, powered by a flagship chipset. We have obtained one at our workplace for a overview, however earlier than we put it via its paces, let’s do a fast unboxing to see what Honor’s newest foldable has to supply.
Now, let’s speak in regards to the design. The Honor Magic V5 is available in Ivory White, Black, Daybreak Gold, and Reddish Brown colours. Ours is the Ivory White mannequin, which is a hair thinner and lighter than the opposite three variations.
The Magic V5 in Ivory White
The Ivory White Magic V5 is 4.1mm thick when unfolded and eight.8mm thick when folded, whereas the opposite fashions measure 4.2mm and 9mm of their unfolded and folded states, respectively. At 217g, the Honor Magic V5’s Ivory White model is 5g lighter than the opposite fashions.
As compared, the Honor Magic V3’s lightest model weighs 226g, measuring 4.35mm when unfolded and 9.2mm when folded. Even so, Honor managed to pack an even bigger battery contained in the Magic V5: 5,820 mAh vs. the V3’s 5,150 mAh cell. The Chinese language model even goes as much as 6,100 mAh.
Honor Magic V3
The Honor Magic V5 additionally has Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC below the hood, paired with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Its folding show measures 7.95″ whereas the duvet display screen has a diagonal of 6.43″.
You possibly can watch our Honor Magic V5’s hands-on video beneath, the place Will walks you thru the important thing options of the smartphone.
