Having made its first unofficial sighting final yr, the Honor Magic Vs was introduced 3 months in the past, someday round November 2022 in China, with native availability kicking off early December. It’s the hyped successor of the early 2022 Magic V mannequin, however as you will note in our overview, it has much more to say this time. Higher specs, improved hinge efficiency and a few distinctive cameras make up for a foldable magnificence, that may simply flip right into a beast.
Τhe Honor Magic Vs packs all of the specs you’d anticipate from a 2023 flagship telephone right into a foldable bundle. A big battery (5,000 mAh), quick charging (66 watts), a robust Snapdragon 8 Gen Plus 1 processor, and three years of OS upgrades in addition to 5 years of safety patches.
The HONOR Magic Vs is available in Orange, Cyan and Black colours and is priced at 7499 yuan (US$ 1048 / Rs. 85,705 approx.) for 8GB + 256GB, 7999 yuan (US$ 1117 / Rs. 91,420 approx.) for the 12GB + 256GB and the top-end 12GB + 512GB mannequin prices 8999 yuan (US$ 1257 / Rs. 102,845 approx.).
Honor Magic Vs – Technical specs
- 7.9-inch (2272 × 1984 Pixels) FHD+ OLED 10.3:9 side ratio show with 90Hz refresh fee, 1920Hz excessive frequency PWM eye safety, HDR10+, 1.07 billion colours, DCI-P3 Extensive Shade Gamut, as much as 800 nits brightness
- 6.45-inch (2560 × 1080 Pixels) FHD+ OLED 21:9 side ratio show with 120Hz refresh fee, 1920Hz excessive frequency PWM eye safety, HDR10+, 1.07 billion colours, DCI-P3 Extensive Shade Gamut, as much as 1200 nits brightness
- Octa Core Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 4nm Cell Platform with Adreno next-gen GPU
- 8GB / 12GB RAM with 256GB storage / 512GB storage, 16GB RAM with 512GB storage (Final)
- Magic UI 7.0 based mostly on Android 12
- Twin SIM
- 50MP Digital camera with IMX800 sensor, f/1.9 aperture, LED flash, 50MP ultra-wide digital camera with f/2.0 aperture, macro possibility, 8MP 3X Optical Zoom Digital camera with f/2.4 aperture
- 16MP entrance digital camera with f/2.45 aperture
- Aspect-mounted fingerprint sensor, Infrared sensor
- USB Kind-C Audio, Stereo audio system, licensed by IMAX Enhanced, 3-MIC Stereo Voice Reception, DTS: X Extremely Algorithm
- Dimensions: 160.3x 141.5mm (72.6mm when folded) ×6.1 (12.9 when folded) mm; Weight: 261g
- 5G SA/NSA, Twin 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ax (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 5.2 LE, GPS (L1 + L5 Twin band), NFC, USB 3.1 Kind-C (GEN1)
- 5000mAh (typical) battery with 66W Tremendous quick wired charging
Design and show(s)
The successor to the Magic V retains the 7.9-inch FHD+ 90Hz OLED foldable interior display screen with 21:9 side ratio and a 90% screen-to-body ratio, 6.45-inch FHD+ 120Hz AMOLED exterior display screen. Sure, the foldable show stays this telephone’s most important characteristic and for an excellent motive. Similar to the Galaxy Z Fold 4, it has a canopy display screen and an inside display screen. The outer display screen measures 6.45 inches diagonally, whereas the interior show is 7.9 inches. I discovered each crisp, responsive, and vibrant, and every display screen additionally folds into the opposite with no discernible hole. Nonetheless, on this telephone, the outer show is significantly better and extra vibrant than the interior. Plainly Honor needs us to make use of the Magic Vs as a telephone primarily, after which as a foldable “pill.”
The HONOR Magic Vs is 12.9mm skinny when folded and weighs 261g, making it the trade’s lightest foldable smartphone presently. It comes with a seamless design, and a complicated super-light gearless hinge rigorously crafted with a single-piece casting processing know-how with out hole providing a creaseless show when unfolded. It’s constructed with aerospace-grade supplies and may face up to over 400,000 folds, equal to greater than ten years of use with 100 folds per day.
Plenty of smudges
Sadly, the shiny, mirror-like end of the system makes it a fingerprint magnet. The one time you see it in pristine situation is that 1 second simply after it has been cleaned. Then… smudge chaos. That’s why I might recommend the usage of the case: it saves you from all of these woes, whereas additionally offering safety. It’s received a delicate fake leather-based layer so it’s properly premium feeling, too.
The controls across the Magic’s perimeter are positioned in considerably of an uncommon manner. The fingerprint reader/energy button pair is on the underside/proper half of the handset. Additionally the quantity rocker is above it. There are additionally 2 audio system positioned on the highest/left half of the handset. One other factor you’ll discover on the highest is an IR emitter! What a shock! It jogs my memory of the great outdated days when most Chinese language smartphones got here with their very own IrDA ports and we might management all kinds of TV’s.
By way of dimension and usefulness, the Honor Magic Vs is taller and wider than the Galaxy Fold4, however thinner, and it seems to be and feels even thinner than the numbers recommend! Whenever you need to use it in pill mode nonetheless, it provides a bigger viewing space of seven.9 inches in comparison with the ‘tiny’ 7.6-inch unit of the most recent Galaxy.
Honor Magic Vs digital camera(s)
- Main Digital camera (Extensive)
- 27mm 54MP IMX800 Fundamental Digital camera (f/1.9)
- Video: As much as 2160×3840 pixels
- Photograph: As much as 6144×8768 pixels
- Ultrawide & Macro digital camera
- 13mm 50-MP f/2
- Telephoto digital camera
- 94mm 8MP f/2.4 3X optical zoom + OIS
- Selfie
- 25mm 16MP f/2.45
The Honor Magic Vs comes with 3 principal (rear) cameras, consisting of a 54-megapixel principal digital camera, 50-megapixel ultra-wide digital camera, and an 8-megapixel telephoto digital camera able to 3x optical zoom. There’s additionally a 16-megapixel selfie shooter, with magnificence choices and very nice efficiency.
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I have to admit this telephone creates magic with its cameras as properly. I used to be happy with the picture readability, dynamic vary, shutter velocity and the flexibility of the digital camera. Element is sweet and you’ll say it’s offered in a balanced manner – it’s not probably the most pure rendition, but it surely’s not overly processed both. The total res 54MP mode saves within the native discipline of view, equal to a 23mm lens, so it does get a bit extra within the body. That’s maybe it most important benefit because it doesn’t actually get you a significant element enchancment. The 8MP telephoto digital camera might not sound like a lot, but it surely does take strong images. Element is excellent and there’s no noise.
Whether or not I used to be in vibrant, dim and even darkish lighting environments, the digital camera captured crisp, vibrant and correct images in quite a lot of lighting situations. It can’t attain the Dx0Mark champions on the market (iPhone or Samsung flagships) however nonetheless, it’s nice all in all.
Honor Magic Vs battery life
Geared up with a 5,000-mAh battery, the Honor Magic Vs boasts because the foldable telephone with the biggest battery on the market. Solely non-foldable flagships – such because the Galaxy S22 Extremely pack the identical dimension battery or bigger.
Throughout my 2 weeks of on a regular basis use, the Magic Vs made it via with a single cost till late night time, simply earlier than I went to sleep. I used to be very comfortable that I didn’t need to cost it 2 instances per day – even once I used the telephone for some gaming.
Throughout that point, I performed Genshin Impression and took a 10-minute Skype video name on the duvet display screen. The battery went from 100% to 82% in these 45 minutes.
The Magic Vs comes with a bundled 66-watt charger, which Honor says will utterly replenish a useless battery inside 46 minutes. I attempted to repeat the above, and to my shock, the telephone went from 0% to 100% in 48 minutes (!). This implies the Magic Vs outshines the Galaxy Z Fold 4 on this division. Nonetheless, there’s no wi-fi charging on the Magic Vs. That solely leaves the Galaxy foldables and a few vivo X Folds that assist it available in the market.
Honor Magic Vs software program
Fortunately the Magic Vs runs Android 13 and Honor’s MagicOS, identical to most of this years’ fashions. It additionally contains full assist for the Google apps suite, in contrast to Huawei’s software program builds that are restricted in a technique or one other. The MagicOS v7 comes with only a few refined upgrades over its earlier iteration. Icons are the identical, the duty switcher and notification/fast settings have improved usability placements and the Settings menu stays largely the identical. I beloved the Yoyo recommendations card/widget, that permits you to have the onboard assistant pitch apps, and the massive themes gallery with 1000’s of free customization choices.
Having performed with this foldable, I fortunately admit of being a fan of MagicOS’ split-screen multi-tasking system, which features a slide-over menu that you just set off by swiping and holding from the perimeters. You may multitask with as much as 4 apps and there’s a break up display screen mode in addition to floating home windows. You can too transfer apps round and resize their home windows.
I might have beloved to see one thing like Samsung’s Flex mode on the Magic Vs. Though I might use the telephone when it was half-folded and prop it up like a laptop computer, not one of the apps I used, even native ones, that have been tailor-made for that have. It’s a disgrace the software program doesn’t take sufficient benefit of the telephone’s folding design. Maybe with a future OS replace?
Efficiency and benchmarks
The Magic Vs packs a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 at its coronary heart. I do know, it’s not the present Gen 2, but it surely’s an simply {powerful} sufficient platform. It’s the flagship chipset for 2022, in spite of everything. Honor lists the numbers as 3.00GHz for the Cortex-X2 super-powerful core, 2.50GHz for the mid-tier cluster of 3x Cortex-A710s and 1.80GHz for the efficiency-oriented 4x Cortex-A510s.
Word additionally that the worldwide model of the Honor foldable comes with 12GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Chinese language markets additionally get some 12GB/256GB and 8GB/256GB choices.
Within the Geekbench 5 assessments, the telephone manages to get some 1299 factors in single-core metrics and 3990 factors within the multi-core problem. The numbers are nearly the identical with the Galaxy Z Fold 4 in multi-core assessments. Not in single-core, nonetheless.
Last verdict
Packing a powerful {hardware} set, first rate cameras, spectacular battery life and intuitive multitasking options, Honor Magic Vs is a real beaty – trapped within the physique of a beast! I beloved all of it in all, largely for its skilled character and its timeless battery. Nonetheless, I have to stress that it lacks any type of IP ranking. This makes it fragile typically. Additionally its software program doesn’t actually make the most of the folding display screen. Lastly Honor supplies fewer software program updates than Samsung (the present foldable King of the market).
PROS:
- Glorious show
- Impeccable construct high quality
- Tremendous skinny design
- State-of the artwork cameras
- Massive exterior show
CONS
- No IP ranking
- MagicOS might pack extra foldable options
- Mediocre audio high quality
