While Samsung’s foldables skilled a serious glow-up in 2025, Honor has been refining its competing Magic V collection with an unwavering consistency during the last 4 years. The newly-unveiled Honor Magic V6 is one other record-breaker that ought to have rivals nervous.
Last yr’s Honor Magic V5 took the crown for “World’s Thinnest Foldable” and the V6 ups the ante ever so barely, by shaving one other 0.1mm off its predecessor’s already-svelte physique. That’s actually simply the tip of the iceberg, nonetheless, with engineering refinements and new performance that’ll pose an actual problem for the bevy of foldables anticipated to comply with, within the coming months.
Honor Magic V6 specs and worth
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Dimensions: |
H: 156.7mm x w: 145.6mm (unfolded) / 74.5mm (folded), d: 4.0mm (unfolded white mannequin) / 4.1mm (unfolded black, gold, pink fashions) / 8.75mm (folded white mannequin) / 9.0mm (folded black, gold, pink fashions) |
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Weight: |
219 grams (white mannequin), 224 grams (black, gold, pink fashions) |
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Inner show: |
7.95-inch LTPO 2.0 Honor Super Armored Inner Screen w/ anti-reflective coating + stylus assist |
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Outer show: |
6.52-inch LTPO 2.0 Honor anti-scratch NanoCrystal Shield w/ anti-reflective coating + stylus assist |
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Resolution: |
Inner show: 2352 x 2172, outer show: 2420 x 1080 |
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Refresh price: |
1 to 120Hz |
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Peak brightness: |
Inner show: 5,000nits, outer show: 6,000nits |
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Chipset: |
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 |
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RAM: |
16GB |
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Storage: |
512GB |
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OS (at launch): |
MagicOS 10 atop Android 16 |
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Main digital camera: |
50MP ƒ/1.6 w/ OIS |
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Ultrawide digital camera: |
50MP ƒ/2.2 |
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Telephoto digital camera: |
64MP ƒ/2.2 1/2-inch sensor 3x optical zoom w/ OIS |
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Selfie cameras: |
20MP ƒ/2.2 (inside and exterior screens) |
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Battery: |
6,660mAh Xiaomi Si-C Surge Battery (international mannequin) |
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Charging: |
80W wired, 66W wi-fi |
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Colors: |
White, black, gold, pink |
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Price |
TBC (anticipated to be round £1,699 / €1,999) |
Stronger than ever
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Foldables at all times come below hearth from skeptics attributable to their sophisticated engineering, intricate hinge mechanisms, and softer, versatile shows, when in comparison with your standard candybar smartphone.
Samsung’s debut Galaxy Fold had some severe sturdiness points, which pressured the corporate to utterly rethink the way it approached establishing its gadgets. That served as a cautionary story to rivals like Honor. As a consequence, we’ve since seen your entire trade make investments extra money and time into constructing folding telephones which are truly geared up to deal with the trials of regular day by day smartphone use.
In the case of the V6, regardless of its razor-thin profile, Honor has ensured it’s made for the actual world. It’s even introduced receipts, with impartial certification from acknowledged our bodies together with TÜV Rheinland and SGS.
Speaking to Cao, he dove into extra element on the engineering refinements at work, particularly these beneath the cellphone’s elegant exterior.
“Targeting the difficulty of hinges being liable to failure, the V6 makes use of 2800MPa (up from 2300MPa on the Magic V5) Honor Super Steel to fortify the mechanical core, which is sort of twice the power of Samsung’s materials. This is mixed with an AI simulation system, which leverages tens of 1000’s of digital drop situations, making certain the construction’s absolute sturdiness and long-term reliability.”
Like the V5, this newer hinge is once more rated for 500,000 folds, however Honor’s additionally bolstered the cellphone’s development with IP68 and IP69-certified water resistance. This stage of safety is presently unique to the V6 within the foldable house, with IP69 specifically, being a rarity exterior of gadgets from the likes of Oppo and OnePlus.
Biggest battery on the market
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Honor isn’t any stranger to pushing the envelope on battery tech, however the V6 has legitimately raised the bar for the competitors. That features a bigger and extra energy-dense battery than another foldable presently available on the market. Even although the worldwide model of the V6 comes with a smaller capability providing than its Chinese equal, it nonetheless clocks in larger than any rival foldable proper now.
Despite its spectacular 4.1mm thickness (4.0mm on the white model) when open, the Magic V6 nonetheless manages to deal with a large 6,600mAh cell, up from 5,820mAh on the Magic V5.
At the launch of the V6, Honor additionally confirmed off its fifth-generation ‘Blade Battery’. As thick as a enjoying card, this next-gen cell has discovered its approach into the China-exclusive 1TB mannequin of the V6, granting the foldable a document 7,000mAh battery capability.
Cao defined, “this [Honor’s Blade Battery] homes the world’s thinnest cell phone battery cell, with a thickness of solely 0.15mm, but boasting a silicon content material as excessive as 32%. This allows a most battery capability of 7,000+ mAh on the 1TB model offered in China, ushering the foldable class into the 7,000+ mAh period. Underlying technical improvements embody a “tremendous glue” binder within the anode materials, 4.57V cathode materials, and the thinnest copper foil.”
True cross-platform compatibility
Multitasking on a tool just like the V6 is already a releasing expertise, in comparison with split-screen use or app switching on a standard candybar cellphone (and even different foldables). But Honor has been progressively increasing its cross-device compatibility additional than another cellphone maker.
As a lot as the corporate undoubtedly needs its customers operated in an Honor-only bubble of private tech, it is aware of that’s seldom the case. As Cao factors out, “we’re properly conscious that many high-end customers are ‘dual-device owners’ (dual-phone customers) working throughout ecosystems.”
With their sights set on Apple customers specifically, Honor has expanded the V6’s interoperability with the best iPhones; letting you mirror notifications between gadgets and activate an instantaneous hotspot from the V6 when your iPhone’s sign is poor. What’s extra, now you can mirror notifications from the V6 onto your Apple Watch, in addition to lengthen the show of your MacBook onto Honor’s sizzling new foldable.
The cellphone’s OneTap characteristic can wirelessly beam a 1GB file to your MacBook in about 25 seconds. When you pair AirPods with the V6, you get all the pieces from a well-recognized setup animation to regulate over the buds’ noise cancellation modes and Find My assist.
Early ideas
The Honor Magic V5 was arguably essentially the most succesful foldable of the final yr, and the V6 appears on monitor to obtain that very same crown in 2026. The solely fly within the ointment is that Honor hasn’t but set a launch date (or introduced a worth).
Despite its spectacular new sturdiness credentials, its sizable digital camera {hardware}, massive shows (with stylus assist on each), and new AI-backed performance, its ambiguous on-sale date offers rivals time to bolster their 2026 foldable choices, in an effort to thwart the V6’s promising lead.
From my time with it to date, it has a design with presence and a software program expertise that’s bursting with potential, I simply hope we’re not stored ready for the cellphone to really make it to market.
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