With a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and 12 GB of RAM, efficiency is silky easy. You additionally get a beneficiant 512 GB of storage. I performed hours of Kingdom Rush: Alliance on the Magic V3 with out a stutter, and it by no means obtained heat. The large display is right for gaming and video, however I loved studying on the Kindle app too. I choose a laptop computer for work, however the Honor Magic V3 additionally proved useful as a surrogate second display once I was lacking my dual monitor setup.
Battery life is superb. Honor’s third-generation silicon carbon battery has a 5,150-mAh capability, and I used to be stunned to seek out it frequently lasted two days between costs. When you’ll want to high up, you may charge wirelessly at as much as 50 watts or plug in for as much as 66 watts, sufficient to completely cost the Magic V3 in underneath an hour. It warns you to unfold the telephone to juice up the twin batteries at most velocity.
Ultimate Hurdle
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The Honor Magic V3 is a pleasant machine. Honor’s {hardware} is deeply spectacular, however there’s all the time a however. As I discovered with the Honor Magic 6 Professional (7/10, WIRED Review), its software program doesn’t fairly attain the identical heights. Pleasingly, the Magic V3 feels much more polished, however I nonetheless encountered a number of wee irritations.
The transition between the entrance and inside screens often went unsuitable and displayed one thing stretched or squashed. As soon as, the within display was utterly unresponsive, however closing and opening fastened the difficulty. I obtained sick of the battery warning concerning the Oura app however couldn’t discover any technique to cease it. Sure apps, just like the Play Retailer, saved displaying the wee crimson icon to indicate one thing new lengthy after there was nothing new to see.
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The Honor Magic V3 runs Android 14 with MagicOS 8 on high, however it’s straightforward to customise and comes with only a sprinkling of bloatware. It’s also possible to resolve find out how to make the most of the twin display with a number of home windows and totally different layouts within the settings. You possibly can anticipate 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of safety patches (wanting the seven years Google and Samsung promise, however not dangerous).
The plain rivals for the Magic V3 are the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 and the Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold, and it’s a well-recognized trade-off: Do you go for slick software program or superior {hardware}? The Xiaomi Combine Fold 4 is the closest machine when it comes to design, however gained’t be launched outdoors of China, so the Honor Magic V3 is a more sensible choice for most folk. Regardless of the minor foibles, it is a actually glorious folding telephone, perhaps even the most effective folding telephone you should buy proper now. That mentioned, you continue to don’t want a folding telephone.
