I have been using his very first affordable smartphone for a little over a week now and all I can say is wow, this device has me speechless. Not only is this the first foldable smartphone to use Qualcomm's latest and greatest Snapdragon 810 One chipsets run on the four-nanometre process, no tech, but the first foldable in my eyes that makes sense it's covered display resembles that of a regular smartphone screen with a normal aspect ratio and its foldable panel is similarly sized to miniature tablets with an aspect ratio. That also makes sense it has an insanely well thought out hinge made by honor themselves and has no gap while folded it packs in a triple 50-megapixel camera setup, symmetrical design, and bezels high refresh rates are LED panels that each boast insane brightness and house to have the same 42-megapixel selfie cameras.
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| honor Magic V, Review and unboxing |
It has a huge 4750 milliamp-hour battery and extremely fast 66 Watt charging not to mention it packs in an insane amount of accessories in its box with all that said it's time to deep dive into my immense detail. full review of the honor magic V comes in three different colors namely gloss black titanium silver, which is both glass or the color that I have here with me today called burns orange and is the only one with vegan leather skin. It looks phenomenal at the back extremely elegant and has a very glossy and glossy branded logo at the bottom left-hand corner you do get an included kickstand case in the box which has a bit of a carbon fiber finish and is super tiny to slap on the back of your phone kind of just clips on very simple and makes it super easy to watch movies or play games with the control on your device. I do like that they've included a kickstand case in the box completely free. I mean it is pretty expensive. So it's kind of cool that they've beefed it up a bit inside the device we have a massive battery for a foldable that is at 4750 milliamps with extremely fast 66 Watt wide charging but unfortunately no wireless charging this time around. However, wired charging is remarkably faster than other foldable on the market. The external display is covered by Nano Crystal gloss and the internal one is covered by magnetron sputter optical nanofoam which can deflect reflections the body is made of an aluminum frame and course there's glass or vegan leather on the back.
This is one of the thinnest foldable on the markets coming in at just 6.7 millimeters when unfolded and 14.3 millimeters when folded and it is just 288 grams for the leather version and 293 for the gloss version though it sounds a bit heavy. We've got to remember this is pretty much two phones glued together at the back we are kitted with 350-megapixel sensors one being an ultra-wide sensor with a field of view of 122 degrees the next one of course being the main sensor with laser autofocus and the last one being a very special sensor to honor which they boasted to me about at the launch event it is called the spectrum sensor and can reveal more details within each shot that the main an ultra-wide sensor take to make each photo look perfect in complex environments.
The ultra-wide sensor can be taken natively at 50 megapixels which looks great but the burndown 12.5 looks even better thanks to AI same thing can be said with the main sensor over here looks phenomenal thanks to the spectrum camera popping in over here we do have digital zoom up to 10 times that is the maximum doesn't look the best. But the spectrum camera is what truly shines over here and I have been told by one of them that this will improve drastically over future software updates. Right now you're seeing ultra-wide flicking to main sense over here. And the spectrum camera is enhancing every individual photo and I must say it does work. I'm not quite sure what it is but the detail that it packs in looks like every other phone should just take a step back and let Ana do its thing but the portrait mode is a bit questionable.
It looks okay it blurs a bit too much it looks a bit too artificial and sometimes it even blurs the foreground a bit over here as you can see with my little pup it does a decent job but all in all I think that this will get improved with future software updates upping close and personal to portrait shot however has pretty much perfect edge detection looks pretty natural too. And there is a super macro mode or no macro sensor and it does a more than decent job too. We do have 4k 60 FPS main video recording it looks as it should as 4k Should be nice and stable and super silky smooth too. And of course, we also have ultra-wide load capped at 30 FPS so you can do 20 DP you can also do 4k At 30 fps but do bear in mind that both of them are capped at 30 FPS it still looks pretty decent though we do have HDR and A whole bunch of other lookup tables in terms of different effects that we can use within movie mode of the camera, such as nostalgia and focus. And there's just so many of them I just had to include a couple of seconds of every one of them even at nights over here, as you can see, there give it a movie effect kind of like a dark and gloomy in an interesting thriller that you might see on TV, I guess you could say it's a cool, cool idea.
I'm not sure I'd use it that often, but it looks pretty cool and 4k 60 FPS. The shooting video at night looks pretty great too. I can't have any complaints about it. And it's honestly a lot brighter than other 60 FPS phones I've tested at 30 FPS brightens things out a bit more but loads the detail, but because of the stutter Enos of 30 frames per second, we do have 4k 30 FPS ultra-wide shooting at nights it doesn't look the best but it does look a lot better than other phones have tests that are 4k at night. We have the ultra-wide sensor over here and we can turn that mode on but the strange thing is that every time I turn night mode on it kind of zooms in a little bit just like a point one it's a bit weird, maybe it's my hands doing something strange moving away from my body. Nevertheless, my mode looks okay doesn't look like the mega nightmare that Qualcomm promised with the new chipsets. So I'm not sure on have completely adopted that but on a half told me once again that this will improve with future software updates.
And you got to remember that this is pre-release software since I was sent the device earlier than it got launched. Nevertheless, the actual cameras do an incredible job is especially for a foldable phone talking about foldable we have an in house made ultra-slim floating waterdrop hinge it is made up of triple-layer aerospace-grade materials which aid in the withstanding of 200,000 folds which I'm pretty sure you're not going to be able to get through even if you own the phone for five years. Not to mention the best thing about it is there is no gap while folded we have a power button on the right-hand side of the course and this is mixed up with a fingerprint sensor. Above that is the volume rocker. And right at the bottom, we have a USB 3.1 Type C ports as well as its first speaker second speaker at the top both paired with DTS X Ultra and we do have dual sim 5g over here though unfortunately no expandable storage even no nano SD storage wink we do have an IR blaster over here too.
And the selfie camera is pretty special. It's a 42 megapixel F 2.4 sensor with phase detection autofocus and the same senses on the inner and outer display. It takes a phenomenal photo straight up and the portrait mode looks great but a few issues over there I'm not sure if you can see it but I'm sure this is because this is still pre-released software. What's up guys Technica recording a selfie video on the brand new Honor magic V and yes the selfie camera can record at 4k Though limited to 30 frames per second. The selfie cam can also do 60 FPS it's 80 p and here it is the 1080 P 60 FPS selfie video on the automagically let me know what you guys think is better, as well as what you think generally of the audio and video quality when using the selfie cam. On the brand new Honor magic, V and videos at night don't look half bad either.
4k 30 FPS thank goodness we have 4k Selfie, which is pretty awesome. In terms of video, many flagships of this year already have been lacking that 1080 P at 60. Looks okay at 1980 p at 30 looks even better because of the lower frame rate high brightness. We do have the selfie camera been down to 10.5 megapixels which aid thanks to artificial intelligence at night, which makes selfies shine at night. That's a pretty good thing. I guess you could say the selfies are good, whether you take them when the phone is folded or unfolded and turn on that screen. And using that side-mounted fingerprint sensor. It's a bit unfortunate, there's no under Display sensor.
But I mean, it's understandable This is a foldable device, we do have a load of different always-on displays. And I'm not sure if you notice what I did there just unfolded the phone for the first time which put a smile on my face and we do have some wallpapers that transition when you use the foldable effect and we have an always-on display when it's unfolded too, which is awesome. And of course, you can use that side-mounted fingerprint sensor when it's unfolded. And we do have a double-tap to unlock using face ID two, which is something that many phones forget about when they have a physical fingerprint sensor. So it's truly a blessing in disguise. Of course, when the phone does unfold, it naturally enables face ID which means that you can unlock your device just by unfolding it the foldable display is 7.9 inches in size.
It is of course an early D panel with a PPI of three eight to any resolution somewhere between Q HD and Full HD. It has over 1 billion colors it is 10 but it supports HDR 10 Plus it has IMAX enhanced packed in the first foldable to do that, by the way, 800 nits of peak brightness and 19 120 hertz pulse width modulation, which is a lot Easy on your eyes Wednesday, you're reading a book late at night. And when slapping the foldable closed, you are welcomed to a cover display that has a huge 6.45-inch OLED panel with a more than the decent aspect ratio of 21 by nine, it is curved but only on one side. And it has a resolution of 10 AP with a pretty decently high pixel per inch. Of course, we also have a billion colors, HDR 10 Plus IMAX, all that jazz and we have 1000 nits peak brightness and it keeps the PWM the same.
We do have dark mode too. And it does get enabled for third-party apps. It says only a couple of them in options, but it adds to the wallpaper too. And it works with every third-party app that I've tested out. And when you fold it up, once again, super seamless. And it just adjusts that screen to the dock mode that you use with the unfolded screen. And we do have magic UI six skins of Android 12. And yes, they are no Google services over here. But it is uncertain if there will be a global release. But if there is one, we will be fully packed and fully stocked with Google services. So don't worry about that we have a bunch of different features. Over here, we have a bunch of widgets, as well as a new thing called cards in this new magic UI six. And if it has a bar underneath an app icon, you can just slice up and pin the card super seamless, I guess you could kind of say the whole experience of the automatic vias kind of being very seamless, can also shrink and enlarge folders.
If you have them shrink you have to tap on the fold to get into it. But if you enlarge the folder, you can tap on the bottom right corner to open up the fold and go to the app. But you can also just tap on the app that you see and go straight into it, which makes the whole foldable experience worth it. I've seen this on previous devices. But when using a small screen, it doesn't make it very useful. Using it on a large screen is useful. You can also go picture and picture with pretty much any app and at the top bar over there on any app, you can jump into a floating window and you can slice that to the right-hand side to pin it to the right side of your screen, which is pretty cool. And not only can you do this with one app, but you can do it with two or three or four apps. So you can have a whole bunch of apps pinned to the side of your screen there, which is awesome. And of course, we can also hop into another app. And that being YouTube over here, that icon sign in, we'll get to that in a sec, tap on the little bar at the top. And we can open up another app that is Google Chrome. And you can use that app and just slot it to the side.
And you can start multitasking, which is awesome. And you pretty much have to 21 by nine aspect ratio screens, literally to Sony exterior ones next to each other. And you can multitask with it and bring up your pop-up screens, that being the floatable windows over here for four screens. I mean, if you can handle that kind of information, that's awesome. I'm not sure if I'd use it that often. But the fact that you can do that, and then it's running so smoothly. It's just so awesome. You cannot sign in to your Google accounts on the Chinese version, of course, just to let you guys know so that you don't go buying the Chinese version before you realize you actually can't sign into Google. But you can go into Chrome and of course, the Play Store doesn't work either will work with the global version if there is one, but you can go into Google Chrome and you can sign in from Nath and you can just jump into your Gmail you can jump into Maps, you can jump into YouTube, you can jump into Netflix, anything Google related on Chrome you can hop into and sign into on Google Chrome. And yes when we are viewing things on the full screen there are some ugly black bars at the top and the bottom.
And when you have it folded, there are some bars on the left and right side of the screen to and at the top and bottom but that's pretty much the case when in portrait mode on any phone but you can zoom in or crop in that is when you use a first-party app such as gallery over here, but it does cropping quite a bit whether you on the folded or the unfolded display just to show you guys here so that you can see foldable do still crop in but I must say that the honor Magic V does a much better job and implements a lot better than other foldable around and are Another awesome feature hope it comes to westernized apps. We have CCTV here in China and you can stream multiple channels at once with your automatic V, you can watch four channels at the same time and seamlessly switch between there's the word again, seamless, it's happening all over again, this phone is just so seamless. It's ridiculous, not to mention that the haptics are so good, and anything that you're doing once again, is seamless with the cover display too. But what about the sound speaking of those dual stereo DTS X Ultra optimized speakers, let's give them a listen. And now let's give those speakers a listen when playing a couple of games.
We do also have a gamespace overlay over here. And there is turbo mode which boosts your game performance to that it's automatic, you can't toggle it on or off. But there are a bunch of features within the game space overlay, such as Hunter Mode, which just keeps you fully immersed within the game. And speaking of games, we're going to kick start things off with Ganeshan's impact of VR on the highest possible graphic settings. And the max fps was sitting between 33 and 61 FPS. But the 33 FPS only really happened when we folded the display. That's right, you fold it to the cover screen and you can unfold it back. But there's a bit of jitter between the folds. I mean, obviously, something that will get changed, but it's understandable, but it's just so once again seamless how you can just run around in a game. Unfold your phone, keep playing folded back, but do note that there is a bit of a crop factor when you have it unfolded. It looks phenomenal. But it does crop your gaming a bit. If you'd like to see some surroundings with bullet force max fps over here Ultra graphics, but when you fold the device, it kind of does a weird squishing effect and makes it look a bit funky. You have to close it and reopen it in the cover display. It's sitting at 90 FPS low, which is weird.
This game has an unlimited FPS cap. And now it's stretching when we unfolded because we started in the folded mode. But it does run pretty well 90 FPS unfolded, and it should run at 120 on the cover screen, but it does not it also sits at 90 Same things can be said with Real Racing three though when you fold the screen, it completely reopens the game and when you unfolded once again completely reopens the game. This also has an unlimited FPS cap, but whether it's folded or unfolded sits at 90 FPS, which is still better than 60. And most phones that have been released this year have been capping at 60 with the new Snapdragon eight and one chipset. So I'm pretty happy to say that all games are running at 90 which is fantastic. We do have smart RAM, which can add two gigs to the original 12 gigs of RAM that uses the internal storage and we have the new Snapdragon eight gen one chipset, which is supposedly 20% more powerful and 30% more power-efficient. But what does that mean in terms of benchmarks, we're going to be running through three different benchmarks right now.
And before we kickstart benchmarks off, we're going to be enabling the performance mode within the device and we're going to be checking out the battery percentage as well as the temperature at the start we'll be comparing this at the end of the three benchmark runs. The three benchmark runs being and two to version nine over here testing our GPU and CPU then Geekbench five testing Archer CPU performance and 3d Mock wildlife testing out just GPU performance and getting to the end of the test it drained by 8% which led to a milliamp-hour permanent drainage of 23.75 which is a hell of a lot better than the average Snapdragon 8.1 powered smartphone I've personally tested on my blog and when it comes to temperature, it added 17.7 degrees in Celsius, which is still almost 10 degrees cooler in terms of adding temperature when compared to the average Snapdragon 810 One powered smartphone test that on my blog and when it comes to future results the automatic vi with its Snapdragon eight gen one powered chipset got a score of 969,799 points and when it comes to CPU performance from Geekbench over here, it got the highest single-core score I have ever seen on an Android smartphone with 12 118 points and when it comes to 3d Mock wildlife 58.6 frames per second is incredible and of course destroying the foldable that are currently available.
The honor magic v is by far the most incredible looking foldable on the market thanks to its elegant looking vegan leather backplates from the glossy on a branded logo to The 3d curved camera module I can honestly say that this is the most well thought out design of a foldable to date inside that chiseled camera bump sets three more than capable 50-megapixel sensors which take equally good photos and videos in all different lighting conditions. And while the new spectrum sensor does aid in extra detail, I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that there is no telephoto camera packed in here. Unfortunately, there is no under Display fingerprint sensor here either, but it's understandable and the side-mounted sensor is extremely snappy and reliable.
There is also an always-on display on the outer and inner display and while the face unlocks is not very secure, it's super fast and works while folded or unfolded due to dual selfie cameras, which by the way, take some incredible shots to be the holy grail of this device, however, is its impeccable software magic UI six is not only littered with more than useful features, but it is very well optimized due to the amount of detail used in integrating Android 12 with honors new software skin and insanely SPECT hardware. Speaking of hardware honor has cut no corners will welcome plenty of RAM class-leading Snapdragon eight gen one performance pixel popping resolutions which when paired with fluid high refresh rate panels make day-to-day tasks responsive and seamless. Not to mention that gaming on this device is more than exciting thanks to its remarkable aspect ratios while folded or unfolded, but unfortunately many games tend to crop in while gaming on the foldable screen and while on the topic of displaying the honor magic These panels are insane. They pop with 1 billion colors support HDR 10 Plus and IMAX has huge real estate and very high brightness levels making the magic VI A pleasure to use while opened or closed. This leads me to say that not only is the automatic vi the most powerful foldable on the planets, but the only foldable that makes sense