With a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor and 12 GB of RAM, efficiency is silky clean. 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 bought heat. The massive display is right for gaming and video, however I loved studying on the Kindle app too. I desire a laptop computer for work, however the Honor Magic V3 additionally proved helpful as a surrogate second display after 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 shocked to seek out it usually lasted two days between costs. When it’s worthwhile 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 below an hour. It warns you to unfold the telephone to juice up the twin batteries at most pace.
Remaining Hurdle
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The Honor Magic V3 is a pleasant gadget. Honor’s {hardware} is deeply spectacular, however there’s at all times 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 way more polished, however I nonetheless encountered a couple of wee irritations.
The transition between the entrance and inside screens sometimes went incorrect and displayed one thing stretched or squashed. As soon as, the within display was utterly unresponsive, however closing and opening fastened the difficulty. I bought sick of the battery warning concerning the Oura app however couldn’t discover any option to cease it. Sure apps, just like the Play Retailer, saved displaying the wee pink icon to point out 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 determine the right way to reap the benefits of the twin display with a number of home windows and completely different layouts within the settings. You possibly can count on 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of safety patches (in need of the seven years Google and Samsung promise, however not unhealthy).
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 gadget 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 wonderful 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.
