The Honor Magic V2 has been announced , and it ’s already make us necessitate some tricksy doubtfulness of the forthcomingGalaxy Z Fold 5 .
Samsung is due to annunciate its next big folding revamp at a glossy Unpacked effect in less than a fortnight . However , at its own Beijing launch event maintain yesterday , the Honor Magic V2 made a case for being the first real next - gen full - sized foldable .
That ’s way lighter than the 263gGalaxy Z Fold 4 , and is even lightsome than the 234 gram Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra – a non - folding flagship that many consider to be the well smartphone on the market .
This piddle the fact that Honor has managed to chock up in a 5,000mAh battery , vs the 4,400mAh stamp battery of the Galaxy Z Fold 4 ( and belike the Fold 5 too ) , all the more telling . The Magic Vs also had a 5,000mAh battery , but it was n’t quite this slight and light .
The Magic V2 battery also benefits from 66W pumped up charging , which again stimulate Samsung ’s 25W charging look a short meagre .
When unfurled , the Magic V2 has a pretty tasty - calculate 7.92 - inch FHD+ 120Hz AMOLED exhibit with a 1,600 nits maximal brightness . Will Samsung be able-bodied to match that size of it or brightness with the Fold 5 ? Maybe the latter , but belike not the former .
The international display is also big to the melody of 6.43 inches , with an astonishing claimed peak brightness of 2,500 nits . Crucially , it also packs a 20:9 aspect ratio , so together with that skinny body it should feel way more like a ‘ normal ’ phone when folded up than the Galaxy Z Fold 4/5 .
There ’s no deficit on powerfulness , with the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor that the Galaxy Z Fold 5 is have a bun in the oven to have . The Magic V2 ’s version even has a slenderly in high spirits 3.36GHz clock hurrying , which promises to gibe the ‘ Made for Galaxy ’ version of the splintering that Samsung used in the Galaxy S23 range , and will probably employ in the Galaxy Z Fold 5 .
With up to 16 GB RAM , and up to 1 TB storage , the Magic V2 is more than private-enterprise on spectacles .
As for the camera solidifying - up , Honor has equipped the Magic V2 with an telling - sound triple - detector solidifying - up . It ’s . led by a 50MP wide sensor with OIS , and backed up by a 50MP ultra - wide and a 20MP telephotograph with OIS . There ’s also a dToF Laser Focusing System added an excess lock - on focus , as well as a flicker detector and a color sensing element .
You also get a pair of 16MP selfie television camera , though the internal one does n’t use the Galaxy Z Fold 4 ’s ( and likely 5 ’s ) under - presentation engineering . That ’s either a good or a bad thing , depending on whether you evaluate selfie camera quality over display uniformity .
The biggest question , and most likely helplessness in our experience , concerns the Honor Magic V2 ’s software package . It ’s aChina - onlydevice right now , so it ’ll prevail MagicOS 7.2 on Android 13 without any Google Play services . Even if it were to come to westerly markets with Google Play restore , it ’d in all likelihood still be one of the more bloated and ugly UIs out there .
Still , if the Honor Magic V2 does make its manner to a ball-shaped audience fairly sharpish , the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is move to be looking nervously over its shoulder .
