I. Foreword: Honor's first vertically folding phone introduces the industry's largest 4-inch external screen
Among the many folding phones, the vertical folding design is particularly favored by female users for its lightweight, compactness and versatility.
Since the introduction of the first vertically folding phone in China, the back is usually equipped with a secondary screen or called an external screen, which is mainly to allow female users to use the rear camera of the phone to take selfies.
Because of this, this design not only meets the needs of female users for beauty shots, but also inspires numerous innovative ways of using the rear secondary screen and user interaction.
Honor, although it is relatively late into the ranks of folding screen cell phone brand, but its hard core strength, to create a folding screen cell phone of each generation have solved the user's pain points, such as the first folding screen thickness into the "millimeter age" of the Honor Magic V2, the price for the first time fell below the bottleneck of 7,000 yuan, to promote folding screen cell phone from "pioneer to the main". From the "pioneer to the main force" of Honor Magic Vs2, as well as the Honor V Purse that makes the phone turn into a "wallet" in a second.
This year, Honor found the right time, launched its first vertical folding machine - Honor Magic V Flip, with the industry's largest 4.0-inch external screen, comparable to the flagship of the screen quality and the wisdom of the whole scene of the interaction ability to create a young people's dream of a small giant screen.
Before we open the review, let's first take a look at the highlights of the Honor Magic V Flip:
1, Honor's first vertical folding machine equipped with flagship luban hinge
As Honor's first vertical folding machine, Honor has equipped it with a Luban hinge, which is no different from the horizontal folding flagship in terms of folding comfort and durability.
By carrying self-developed shield steel, the folding hinge is strong and durable, and with the help of super-strong screen support steel foil, the screen's crease is shallower and more impact-resistant.
2, the industry's largest 4-inch vertically folded external screen
Honor Magic V Flip introduces the industry's largest 4-inch vertically folded external screen, a full-area low-power LTPO external screen, which can realize 0.1Hz~120Hz adaptive high brush, and also supports 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and also has an industry-leading 2500nit local peak brightness.
It is no exaggeration to say that the display quality of this external screen is equal to the internal screen.
3, flagship Green Lake battery
Magic V Flip equipped with flagship Qinghai Lake battery, the use of the latest silicon carbon anode technology, the battery capacity of 4800mAh, the main battery energy density of 762Wh / L, the secondary battery energy density of 700Wh / L, leading the vertical folding category.
Moreover, while taking into account the large battery, the phone can also do 7.15mm, taking into account the premise of the large battery, but also to achieve the current thinnest body design.
4, the first generation of Snapdragon 8 + mobile platform
In addition, the phone is also built with the first generation of Snapdragon 8+ flagship mobile platform, using 4nm process, in daily use, handling daily tasks or playing a variety of 3A handheld games, can bring a smooth and efficient experience.
II, appearance: the industry's thinnest vertical folding body 4-inch external screen super eye-catching
Honor Magic V Flip is equipped with a 6.8-inch internal screen, LTPO substrate, support for 1-120Hz adaptive high brush, global peak brightness 1500nit, local peak brightness reaches a leading 3000nit in the same category, which provides a hardware guarantee that the content of the screen is clearly visible under the sun.
In addition, the Honor small folding of this fast internal screen is also the industry's first color gamut coverage of more than 90% BT.2020 screen, with a resolution of 2520x1080, and a static contrast ratio of up to 5,000,000:1, which achieves a comprehensive surpassing of similar products in terms of clarity, brightness and contrast.
The top center of the inner screen integrates a 50-megapixel Sony IMX816 large-bottomed front lens, and on the left side is a light distance sensor.
The inner screen of the Honor Magic V Flip is designed with equal width on all four sides, providing a balanced and symmetrical aesthetic visually.
We fast technology received the Honor Magic V Flip's color scheme for Iris Black, the back of the phone adopts a unique mysterious space light and shadow process, through a single layer of thin film sheet carefully crafted, presenting a flow of light and shadow texture, delicate touch, like silk smooth.
The simple black color of the peripheral ring subtly sets off the mysterious light and shadow effect in the central area, creating a deep and unique texture.
This design not only enhances the visual impact, but also gives the product an advanced and mysterious artistic flavor.
The rear dual camera module is located in the upper left corner position of the back plate of the body, and the main camera is surrounded by a layer of metal circle, this detail treatment not only enhances the overall aesthetics, but also enhances the texture and grade of the whole phone, and the size of the double-circle lens design makes the phone full of personality.
The outer screen of the phone adopts a 4.0-inch OLED panel, which is also the industry's first outer screen phone with LTPO substrate, which can realize 0.1~120Hz adaptive high brush, and Honor integrates low power consumption and large screen experience together.
Moreover, this external screen also supports 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and passed the German Rheinland TÜV no-flash certification, class natural light eye protection and AI sleep display, Honor flagship cell phone standard eye protection features are all arranged on the Honor Magic V Flip the quality of this piece of the external screen, it can be no exaggeration to say that in the small folding category to reach the top level of the industry, and can even be compared with some of the flagship! The external screen of the cell phone is comparable.
The folding hinge of the Honor Magic V Flip adopts the flagship's same Ruban water drop hinge structure, introduces the same self-developed Honor Shield steel material as the flagship folding Magic V2, and adds a high-strength aerospace-grade ultra-thin steel foil.
This material is extremely strong, reaching 1,800 MPa, which not only ensures the durability of the folded part of the phone, but also greatly enhances the screen's impact resistance.
In addition, the pivot adopts a multi-hole continuous arch structure design, which effectively improves the rigidity and stability of the entire phone through multi-layer support.
Honor Magic V Flip adopts a side fingerprint identification scheme, and the volume button and power button are located on the same side of the body.
The top and bottom of the phone are equipped with independent speakers, forming a symmetrical stereo sound field, and the top of the bottom and sides are equipped with a microphone, three microphones in the call radio effect to be more powerful.
Honor Magic V Flip supports 66W super fast charging, and comes with a 66W super fast charger set.
III, the external screen experience: 4-inch large external screen, watching movies, listening to music, brush video can do everything.
Honor Magic V Flip built-in this piece of the current industry's largest 4.0-inch magic external screen, provides a diverse range of magic interactive features, so that users can easily enjoy the full range of life and entertainment experience without unfolding the game, watching videos, listening to music, chatting with friends on WeChat and other independent applications, so that the phone's sub-screen is no longer a vase.
In the external screen, you only need to need to swipe left and right to switch the full-screen desktop card, including weather, calendar, small games, sports, payment, music and other convenient functions.
Moreover, we can also add small icon apps in the external screen desktop, including apps such as Xiaohongshu, Aichi, FM, etc., to further enhance the practicality of the external screen.
When the phone is switched to calendar mode or tent mode, you can activate the Smart Pendulum function, the external screen is able to display the clock, weather, music and other full-screen card information.
Thanks to the magic window partition interaction function, Honor Magic V Flip's external screen supports full-screen display of the oversized external screen with partition function, the application area is presented in a vertical 16:9 ratio, so that many applications can be directly displayed on the external screen, overcoming the problem of limited application adaptation of the external screen of vertically folded cell phones.
We can use the external screen of the phone to brush Jieyin, watch Xiaohongshu, watch movies, and even use it to shop and play games.
Not only does it have powerful external screen qualities and features, it also supports more than 40 apps and will support more than 100 apps in future updates.
With so many features and a wide range of application adaptations, it can cover 80% of user use scenarios, truly realizing the convenience of smooth use without unfolding the phone, creating a dream small giant screen experience.
In addition, Honor Magic V Flip has carefully designed a variety of themes for the phone's external screen, which are not only stylish and elegant, but also incorporate elements of healing budding pets, so that users can feel more fun and warmth in the simple interaction.
In the personalized settings of the external screen, we can set the theme of the external screen, and these well-designed themes not only add to the aesthetics of the phone, but also provide interesting interactions with the user, bringing more convenient and pleasurable experiences to daily life.
IV, the game performance: eat chicken king all mastery leisure time to play a game without pressure
Honor Magic V Flip is excellent in terms of performance, it is equipped with the first generation of Snapdragon 8 + mobile platform, to ensure that it can meet the needs of users in daily use and entertainment, and it is no problem to take it to play a game.
The version we have in our hands comes with 12GB + 256GB of storage, for which we also tested the gaming performance of the phone.
We carried out in the office environment with a room temperature of 30 degrees Celsius, and chose the "King of Honor" and "Peace Elite" two games to test, and recorded the game frame rate, power consumption and body temperature performance during the test.
1, the king of Honor
The Honor of the king hand game, in the ultimate picture quality can open high frame rate + ultra high resolution, at this time the game runs at 60FPS, after a game of intense group battle, the average frame rate of the game stabilized at 59.8FPS, the game during the period of almost no fluctuations in the frame rate, the frame rate stabilized at the level of 60FPS, giving the feeling of great stability.
Power consumption, an average of 2.16W, energy efficiency ratio of 27.7FPS/W.
Temperature, the back of the body up to 41.1 degrees Celsius, playing in the hot summer there may be a slight heat buildup, but not really hot when holding the phone horizontally.
2, peace elite
Peaceful elite hand travel, in HDR HD quality + extreme frame rate, the average frame rate of the game is stable at 59.58FPS, close to full frame operation, the frame rate fluctuation during the game is slightly more frequent, but there is no particularly large fluctuations in the amplitude of the game screen is very smooth.
The average power consumption is about 3.14W, and the energy efficiency ratio reaches 18.97FPS/W.
Temperature control performance, in the category of small folding is also very good, the back of the body up to 42.6 degrees Celsius.
V, image: Sony IMX906 SLR-level camera small folding can also talk about image
Honor Magic V Flip rear dual camera module, the main camera uses the Sony IMX906 SLR-class photo camera, 50 megapixels, 4-in-1 equivalent pixel 2.0um, 1/1.56 inch sensor unit, 2X focal length under the support of optical quality output, but also supports OIS optical stabilization and EIS electronic stabilization.
The other lens is a 12-megapixel ultra-wide angle/macro 2-in-1 lens.
We also shot some sample images using the Honor Magic V Flip's dual camera module:
--Primary Camera
The main camera in the daytime scene, the main camera shot samples to reduce some of the dark components, showing rich details and full color, whether in strong backlight conditions or even light environment, can be the most realistic scene presented to the user, but also effectively control the overexposed area.
--Night Scene
In night mode, the Honor Magic V Flip can effectively control the highlights, and the shot is almost no noise, the image is very clean, giving a very comfortable first feeling.
--Ultra wide angle
Utilizing the ultra-wide angle lens of the Honor Magic V Flip, it is suitable for multiple people to take pictures together or majestic godfather nothing, and shoot ultra-wide images, and its anti-distortion ability is also relatively excellent, enough to deal with daily shooting.
VI, charging and battery life: 51 minutes full battery life close to 10 hours to the straight screen flagship on par
Thanks to the Honor of self-developed Qinghai Lake battery technology is maturing, as the Honor of the first small folding Magic V Flip, Honor did not hesitate to put this technology, a weight of less than 200g, the thickness of only 7.15mm vertical folding cell phone, accommodates a 4800mAh high-capacity battery, and support for up to 66W super fast charging.
In this regard, we also honored the charging and endurance of the Magic V Flip with a series of tests.
-Charging test
In the charging test, we long press the fast charging animation in the center of the screen to activate the super fast charging Turbo mode for testing.
The phone started charging from 1%, the battery charged to 23% in 10 minutes, 47% in 20 minutes, 70% in half an hour, and finally took 51 minutes to fully charge.
--Battery life test
For the battery life test, we use a professional battery life test tool - Battery Dog by Fast Tech to conduct the test.
In the test program, the default will be carried out to 20% of the power test, at the same time, including CPU high-pressure, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, image browsing, video playback and web browsing of all the test items will be checked, through the simulation of the user's use of the scenario, to restore the real load to the greatest extent possible, infinitely close to the real power consumption situation.
During the test, in order to ensure that the environmental variables of all models tested remain uniform as well as to ensure the accuracy of the test scores, Battery Dog automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen to 50% and turns off auto-brightness, and the volume is adjusted to 30%.
After the battery dog uninterrupted test, Honor Magic V Flip's power consumption from 100% to 20% in 8 hours, 7 minutes and 20 seconds, after conversion, the full battery life is about 10 hours, Magic V Flip is so far we have tested the strongest battery life of the small folding cell phone, there is no one, fully able to satisfy our daily intermittent use of the day.
VII, the summary: the current best adapted, the most comprehensive small folding
Honor Magic V Flip as the Honor of the first vertical folding phone, the integration of the Honor of the unique innovative thinking, through its 4.0-inch industry's largest external screen, as well as more than 40 third-party APP in-depth integration, so that the small folding of the external screen is no longer a flashy "small vase".
In the actual experience, you can even take this piece of external screen as the main screen to use, brush Jieyin, chatting WeChat, shopping Taobao, the internal screen can do things, it can handle.
Moreover, in this oversized secondary screen, Honor also introduced a cute pet desktop theme, poke and user interaction, so that the small folding is more warm, but also integrated fast payment, multi-functional widgets and interesting small games, through the integration of these diversified application scenarios into the small folding cell phone, Honor has greatly tapped and enhanced the value of the secondary screen.
So far, this is arguably the best adapted and most comprehensive small folding sub-screen we've ever seen.
At the performance level, Honor Magic V Flip is also very sincere, the built-in Snapdragon 8+ mobile platform ensures the smoothness of the system as well as durability, and it's not even a problem to play games with it.
Thanks to the full decentralization of Honor's Qinghai Lake battery technology, the Magic V Flip has a large 4800mAh built-in battery that lasts around 10 hours on a full charge.
In the small foldable phones we've tested in the past, the usual battery life is around 7 to 8 hours.
The Honor Magic V Flip, which gets an overall battery life boost because of its larger battery capacity, is by far the most powerful small foldable phone we've tested in terms of battery life, bar none, and not even close to the straight-screen flagships.
In summary, Honor's first small folding, full of sincerity, Honor Magic V Flip with its lightweight and portable body, perfect hardware and software configuration, innovative folding screen design and rich functional interaction, very suitable as a gift for women who pay attention to quality and experience.
