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If you’ve got been pondering that the iPhone in your pocket is too thick and heavy however you additionally want it unfolded into a bigger system, you is likely to be tempted by the most recent folding phone from Honor.

The Chinese firm has simply lifted the lid on the Honor Magic V6, a cutting-edge foldable smartphone that opens up to reveal a big 7.95-inch inside screen for whenever you need to watch movies, luxuriate your web searching or actually dig into that spreadsheet on the prepare home (perhaps not that one).

The downside with many early folding telephones we’ve seen because the launch of the unique Samsung Galaxy Fold in 2019 has been that they’re very thick when closed. But tech strikes fast, and Honor has shrunk the scale of the V6 even more impressively than it did on the Magic V5 I reviewed final 12 months.

It signifies that even when folded shut, the Magic V6 is simply 8.75mm thick – which makes it a hair thinner than the 8.8mm iPhone 17 Pro.

The outer 6.52-inch screen has comparable dimensions to a common slab phone, and Honor says it has additionally labored to up the ante across the back by beefing up the cameras – not that you simply’d miss the cameras given they’re marooned on a massive digital camera island back there, with a fundamental 50MP lens flanked by a 50MP ultrawide and a 64MP 3x optical telephoto lens.

The V6 is additionally the primary ever folding phone to return with IP68 and IP69 water and dirt resistance certifications, beating the Google Pixel 10 Fold’s IP68. Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 is technically a lot more inclined to mud and sand particles with its inferior IP48 ranking, so the Magic V6 is one so as to add to the procuring checklist if you’d like essentially the most sturdy foldable on the market.

That stated, Honor is remaining tight-lipped on a UK price and release date – we don’t know both but. The firm stated the V6 will launch quickly in China, but when it comes to those shores in any respect, it would in all probability be in a number of months.

You additionally get the top-of-the-line Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset right here, so there is no expense spared. For comparability, Motorola simply introduced its first book-style Razr Fold at £1,799, with the much less powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 5.

I reviewed the Magic V5 simply final August, and was suitably impressed, however similar to each book-style foldable I’ve had the pleasure of testing, it’s nonetheless troublesome to suggest at £1,699.

But with digital camera and {hardware} enhancements, Honor appears dedicated to proving you don’t must compromise on the core smartphone expertise of great cameras and waterproofing with a purpose to have a flexible system.

It’s additionally gone hell for leather-based with the battery specs, growing the cell to six,660mAh over the V5’s 5,820 regardless of thinning the V6 down. With Honor’s use of more vitality environment friendly silicon-carbon, I’ll be very to see how long it lasts for, if I ever get my fingers on a review pattern.

You’ll have the ability to charge the V6 at 80W wired or 66W wirelessly – each speeds quicker than the 60W wired speeds Samsung presents on the new Galaxy S26 Ultra.