Honor has revealed that it’s going to announce the Magic V5 foldable in China on 2 July – and it has the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 squarely in its sights.
Sure, that’s proper. Honor simply introduced an announcement. That’s simply how these producers play issues in these hype-fuelled occasions.
We’ll let it cross on this event, as we’re reasonably trying ahead to the Honor Magic V5. In actual fact, we reckon it’ll be one of many 5 greatest telephone launches of the summer time.
The humorous factor is that it appears Honor will launch the telephone earlier than the Z Fold 7 even formally exists; it ought to arrive at Samsung Unpacked, tipped for 9 July.
What’s so particular concerning the Honor Magic V5?
The Honor Magic V5 is the direct follow-up to the Honor Magic V3 (Chinese language producers don’t just like the quantity 4), which supplied the very best foldable {hardware} we’d ever seen when it lastly rocked up within the UK late final yr.
That’s cause sufficient to be excited for the subsequent chapter. All of the noises we’re listening to concerning the V5 have added weight to that.
As Honor mentions on this pre-launch tease, the Honor Magic V5 would be the world’s thinnest foldable smartphone. Given how slim the V3 was, that’s no idle boast.
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Additionally thrilling is the truth that Honor is straight taking up Samsung, the most important foldable participant, with the V5. The corporate explicitly tells us that “The Honor Magic V5 is designed to straight problem the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7”.
We all the time admire a very good smartphone scrap, and it’s refreshing to see an organization ditching the coyness and naming names.
Honor additionally guarantees that the V5 can be its “strongest AI-powered foldable to this point”, which stands to cause. They’re not precisely going to be rolling again on efficiency or AI services, are they?
Extra attention-grabbing, for our cash, is the promise of “PC-level productiveness”. Has Honor labored some correct desktop-level multitasking and even interoperability into MagicOS? It’s an rising pattern.
Honor Magic V5 rumours
Previous to this little teaser, we heard it from semi-official sources that the Honor Magic V5 would pack a 6100mAh battery. That’s considerably bigger than the type of battery we discover in different foldables, and will rid the shape issue of one in every of its greatest perpetual flaws.
Contemplating we’ve additionally heard that the V5 goes to drop beneath the 9mm thickness mark when closed, that may be an particularly spectacular feat. We scent silicon-carbon battery tech at play.
Roll on the Chinese language launch on 2 July and – hopefully – a swift turn-around for the worldwide mannequin.