Honor Magic V5 review: fantastic foldable phone that needs better Android software

Super-svelte body, fast chip, high capacity battery and big camera make it some of the best phone-tablet hardware Honor’s latest foldable phone-tablet attempts to usurp Samsung as the leader of the pack with a super-thin body, massive battery and a ginormous camera lump on the back. The Magic V5 is an impressively thin piece of engineering, slimmed down to about 8.9mm thick when shut, with each half about the same thickness as a USB-C port. It feels very similar to a standard slab phone in the hand, but one you can open up like a book for a mini-tablet on the go. Main screen: 7.95in (403ppi) 120Hz OLED flexible display Cover screen: 6.43in (405ppi) 120Hz OLED Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite RAM: 16GB Storage: 512GB Operating system: MagicOS 9.0.1 (Android 15) Camera: 50MP + 50MP ultrawide + 64MP 3x tele; 2x 20MP selfie Connectivity: 5G, dual sim + esim, USB-C, wifi 7, NFC, Bluetooth 6, GNSS Water resistance: IP58 and IP59 (immersion and high pressure jets) Dimensions folded: 156.8 x 74.3 x 8.88-9mm Dimensions unfolded: 156.8 x 145.9 x 4.1-4.2mm Weight: 217-222g Continue reading...