On paper, the Honor Magic V6 sounds like a tremendous leap forward for foldable phones: It’s the thinnest one yet, with the biggest battery, and the best water-resistance ever. In practice, only the bigger battery feels like a meaningful improvement. The other upgrades are only fractionally superior to what came before.
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Honor’s Magic V6 sets three foldable firsts
But the bigger battery is the only one that matters.
This isn’t entirely Honor’s fault. It’s getting harder to make a foldable phone stand out; even last year’s offerings felt like complete flagship phones. Huawei’s Pura X Max stood out for its odd new aspect ratio, which we’re expecting to see both Samsung and Apple replicate later this year. Then there are the trifolds, which feel like a separate beast entirely. But book-style Android foldables have well and truly matured, now able to go toe-to-toe with regular flagship phones in almost every re
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Honor has been one of the manufacturers pushing foldables forward most aggressively, so it’s earned the right to release a phone with relatively modest hardware improvements. I just wish the company had done more to overhaul the software, as MagicOS remains the main thing holding the Magic V6 back.
– IP69 dust- and water-resistance
Analysis
– Thinnest foldable phone around
– Seven years of software support
– MagicOS is often frustrating
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