After teasing its archetypal foldable smartphone successful December, Honor has unveiled the Magic V. Honor is joining the likes of Huawei, which is its former genitor company, and Xiaomi by stepping into the foldable marketplace.
Like Samsung's Z Fold devices, this is simply a dual-screen smartphone. It has a 6.45-inch, 431 PPI outer show with a solution of 2560 x 1080, 120Hz refresh complaint and 21:9 facet ratio. Open it up, and users tin entree a 7.9-inch, 381 PPI display, which has a 2272 x 1984 resolution, 90Hz refresh complaint and 10:9 facet ratio.
Both OLED screens are a small larger than the Galaxy Z Fold 3's respective displays and enactment a 100% DCI-P3 colour gamut. Honor claims the Magic V is the archetypal foldable smartphone with IMAX Enhanced certification.
The institution says its water-drop hinge helps marque the show look "creaseless." Oppo uses a akin benignant of hinge successful its recently announced Find N foldable.
The Magic V is 72.7mm wide and 14.3mm heavy erstwhile folded, and erstwhile opened, those dimensions displacement to 141.1mm wide and 6.7mm thick. Its 160.4mm gangly lawsuit houses a 4,750mAh artillery that supports 66W charging. Honor says you tin afloat complaint the artillery successful 40 minutes oregon to 50 percent of its capableness successful conscionable 15 minutes.
The telephone has 5 cameras successful total. The rear three-camera array has a wide camera, ultra wide camera and what Honor calls a "spectrum enhanced camera." All 3 are 50MP sensors. There's a 42MP selfie camera for each surface too.
The Magic V runs connected Qualcomm's caller Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipset, which has a 5G modem and Adreno 730 GPU built in. The Magic V has 12GB of RAM, up to 512GB of storage, dual-SIM enactment and stereo speakers. It uses Honor’s caller Magic UI 6.0, which is based connected Android 12. There's besides an autarkic information chip, which stores passwords and biometric information specified arsenic fingerprints.
The instrumentality has 3 colour options: black, abstraction metallic and burnt orange. At 293g, the metallic and achromatic models measurement somewhat much than the 288g orangish variant. The Magic V volition lone beryllium disposable successful China astatine the outset. The 256GB exemplary costs ¥9,999 (approximately $1,568) portion the 512GB mentation is ¥10,999 (around $1,725). The Magic V volition spell connected merchantability connected January 18th.
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