Honor launches the “thinner world” folding

Honor has announced Magic V5, which it says is the foldable phone in the world at the present time – although only if you ignore the high camera unit, and only for its white version. The phone is launched today in China, but Honv says that the international version will come “soon.”

With a thickness of 8.8 mm when closed, the V5 is impressive, and outperforms Oppo 8.9 mm Find N5. This difference is 0.1 mm in practice, although very slight curvature helps the honor phone feel thinner hair than Oppo. This is only true for the “white ivory” version of the phone, with other colors a little thicker at 9 mm, indicating that they will use different materials for the final end.

Perhaps more, you also have to ignore the camera completely. The Magic V5 rear camera unit rises almost a height like Oppo, which makes the phone feel thicker in general as a result. It may justify the super specifications, with almost faster accuracy sensors and almost faster in all areas, additional weight, but reduces this claim “the thinnest world”.

When it opens, the V5 4.1 mm frame is measured, only again overpowering Oppo 4.2 mm. It should be noted that none of these phones is just thin like Huawei’s Trifold Mate XT When it is open, it decreases to 3.6 mm in the thinnest point, a part that does not have a USB-C port.

This battle of millimeters is not a new area for honor. Before you launch Oppo Find N5 earlier this year, Honor Magic v3 It was the thinnest foldable in the market. Samsung is expected to reveal next week a great thinner Galaxy Z Fold 7Although it is likely to be a little thicker than the honor. It does not highlight honor, but Magic V5 may be lighter folding in the world as well, or at least seems to be shared by this title Vivo’s x fold 5It was announced last week – both weighing 217 g.

If all this seems to overcome a gram here and a small part of a millimeter there, then this is because of it. I said again when I Review Oppo Find N5 It will “determine the beginning of the decreasing returns” of foldable phones, and here we are. Without dropping the USB-C port or adopting an asymmetric design, there is simply no room for these phones to get thinner useful, so foldable manufacturers will have to know a new way to generate noise to launch in the future.

Fortunately for honor, Magic V5 has strong specifications enough to impress admiration regardless. Snapdragon 8 Elite operates the phone, with up to 16 GB of RAM and a large 5,820 mAh battery. Both screens use OLED 120Hz LTPO panels, there is a wireless charging, IP58 and IP59 classifications to resist dust and water almost like any non -folding.