Hey, what’s up? Sami here.
Today let’s take a quick look at the Honor Magic V,
Honor’s first foldable phone.
I will cover unboxing, design, specs and gesture control walkthrough,
a simple comparison between the OPPO Find N and Galaxy Z Fold 3, sound testing,
and of course, my first impression.
In the box, you will find the Honor Magic V. What I got is the burnt orange,
feels kind of like leather. There are other two colors – silver and black.
Under that are some accessories, which include two cables, a car charger, a 66W fast charging adapter,
and a phone case. In case you want to know how this phone case works, here you go.
It literally reminds me of my wife’s G-string underwear.
With the minimal material to cover the most important part, isn’t it?
Now about the design. On top, we have the infrared blaster, a noise-canceling mic,
a speaker, and the SIM card slot. It’s dual card dual standby and doesn’t support SD card
expansion. We can see there’s a coil of rubber around the SIM tray, though the official info
doesn’t specify any IP certification but should be able to withstand normal water splash.
Moving on we have the volume rocker and fingerprint scanner on the right side. As for the bottom,
we have the type-c port, another speaker, and the noise-canceling mic. And then is the hinge part,
well-polished and smooth. As Honor -CEO George Zhao says it should survive being folded and
unfolded 200,000 times. If I fold and unfold 100K times a day, I could break it in two days.
And then is the camera module, we’ll get to that in a second.
The Magic V’s external screen measures at 6.45 inches
and comes with a 21:9 aspect ratio, the resolution is 2560 x 1080,
and you know what, the screen refresh rate is 120Hz. I admire that because for me most of the
time I’m using the outer screen to fast reply messages or view news on Twitter.
The selfie camera on the outer display is 42-megapixel, which is the same as the one on the inner display.
Speaking of the inner screen, it is a gigantic 7.9 inches from corner to corner, it has a resolution
of 2272 x 1984 with a refresh rate of 90Hz, and an aspect ratio of 10:9. For other specs, internally,
the Magic V is running Qualcomm’s latest chipset, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, which is paired with 12GB
of RAM and 256GB or 512GB of storage. It’s got a 4,750mAh battery that can be charged at up to
66W, which gives you a 50 percent charge in 15 minutes. It’s 5G compatible and is running Honor’s
Magic UI 6.0 software on top of Android 12, which supports the display of multiple app windows at the same time.
Speaking of that, I really want to go through the gesture controls for you,
which I think is really interesting and innovative and seems very different from my
daily drive OPPO Find N phone. Unlike most of the foldables on the market, you swipe on the screen
to split the screen. For the Magic V, you first simply tap that horizontal line in the middle as
the video shows to get out the two most-used screen-split icons. One is split in half,
and the other is float a window. As the product manager told me that it can float 4 windows
at most, of course you can adjust the size and drag to wherever you want.
Another one I found really interesting is like for the two most used apps, the system will predict that
you are likely to use these two apps together and shows you the icon on the right screen so you can
just click, that’s one of the amazing parts that comes with the Magic UI6.0,
which is the AI self-learning! That’s really magic, isn’t it?
Another great feature is you can drag the text or picture to another screen freely
like the video shows or open two apps at the same time to compare the price, etc.
In terms of cameras, Honor has included a trio of 50-megapixel sensors on the rear of the foldable,
which include a main sensor, an ultrawide camera, and a “Spectrum Enhanced" sensor,
which captures those colors our naked eye can’t see and gives more details for night
photos. I’ve seen this on Huawei P50 Pocket, though I’m not sure if it’s really good.
I compared it with the OPPO FIND N, here is the photo comparison. As time was really
tight and both phones are prototypes, so I’m just showing you a general idea of the two.
I will do a detailed one later when I get the official units.
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Alright, here next would be a simple comparison of the OPPO Find N and Galaxy Z Fold 3.
The first thing you might want to know is the crease, how are they? Well, I viewed from different angles
in different backgrounds. I think the worst is the Z Fold 3, it’s obvious right in front of your
eyes. If have to choose the better one between the rest of the two, I think OPPO wins. But both
did a fairly good job, not visible if don’t pay close attention to. As for thickness, I think the
three are almost the same. But the Magic V maybe feel thinner because it’s the widest and longest.
In this way, the Magic V has a much better viewing experience than the Fold 3,
whether the outer display or inside as you can see from the video.
One thing I have to point out is for the Magic V it seems can’t stay in a fixed position
so it won’t have that cool tripod mode
like the OPPO Find N. But you know what, the product manager gave me another unit and it’s
magically staying in any position we want. And I asked why, they said they are still developing
this feature and once it’s mature then they will push officially, it’s just great to hear that.
Now the sound testing.
With my limited time with the Honor Magic V, I would say
it’s just great to see another manufacturer joining the foldable game. And to my surprise,
each generation seems to get better and better. What I like about the Magic V
is its large internal folding display and also the uncompromised specs, while at the same time
remaining at a reasonable price, at least it’s much better than the Galaxy Z Fold 3.
Alright, that’s the video, I will do follow-ups if you want to know more,
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Thanks for watching, I’m Sami and I will see you in the next one.