I, the preface: Honor Magic V3 once again refresh the large folding thickness record
Last year, Honor Magic V2 for the first time folding screen thickness into the "millimeter level era", the folding large screen phone thickness reduced to 10 mm or less, set a flagship folding screen phone thin world record, Honor folding screen phone in the thin road to open the wild running mode.
However, in order to realize the design concept of extreme thinness, Honor had to make compromises on certain flagship features, such as no periscope telephoto and no wireless charging.
Honor Magic V3 lives up to its name, not only furthering the thinness of the folding screen, but also making up for the regrets of its predecessor's lack of periscope telephoto and wireless charging, becoming the strongest all-around thin and light large folding with the strongest product power to date.
The new folding screen flagship Honor Magic V3 once again broke the world's thinnest record, 9.2mm thickness compared to the predecessor Magic V2, although only 0.7mm reduction, but it is already the crown jewel in the field of industrial design.
Here we are going to see the Magic V3 actual performance through testing.
1, the industry's thinnest 9.2mm folding thickness
Honor Magic V3 through the new Honor Lupin architecture, for the folding machine to bring a stunning 9.2mm ultra-thin design, refreshing the previous Honor Magic V2 folded state 9.9mm thickness record.
In the unfolded state, its thickness is even reduced to 4.35mm, this slim design in similar products to achieve a leap ahead.
At the same time, the weight of the body is only 226g, which is lighter than flagship straight phones such as the Samsung S24 Ultra at 232g and the Huawei Mate 60 RS Extra Master Edition at 242g.
This thin and lightweight design not only provides a more comfortable holding experience, but also eliminates consumers' concerns about appearance and weight when choosing a folding screen phone, breaking the boundaries between folding screens and straight flagships.
2, the third generation of Qinghai Lake battery capacity up to 5150mAh also incorporated 50W wireless charging
Honor Magic V3 takes into account the thinness and lightness of the phone at the same time, thanks to the third generation of Qinghai Lake battery, in order to realize the overall
Enhance the energy density of the battery at the same time, to achieve a significant reduction in the size of the battery, in the 9.2mm thin body into the 5150mAh high-capacity battery.
At the same time, this thin battery, but also for the wireless charging coil left redundant space, this time the Honor in the Magic V3 is also finally in the folding screen phone into the 50W wireless charging capacity.
3, 3.5 times periscope telephoto landing thin folding flagship
Under the slim body, Honor Magic V3 in the image is not compromised at all, the first time 3.5 times periscope telephoto into it, 1/2.51 inches of light-sensing unit, up to 100 times zoom support, so that the light and thin large folding image ability is no longer a limiting factor, to meet the user's high standard requirements for cell phone photography.
II, the appearance: periscope three camera design in the center of the whole machine thin and light to unimaginable
We got our hands on the Honor Magic V3 is a velvet black version, the outer screen adopts a 6.43-inch OLED screen, 20:9 slender ratio in the grip of the girls will not feel strenuous.
The LTPO substrate from the previous generation has also been passed on, this time with an 8T circuit solution, which is more power efficient while taking into account the 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate.
At the same time, the surface of this screen is covered with Honor King Kong Giant Rhinoceros Glass, which brings a 10-fold increase in hardness.
In terms of eye protection, the external screen of Honor Magic V3 supports 4320Hz UHF PWM system.
The phone's external screen is equipped with an under-screen front camera, with the 20MP camera centered above the screen. This ideal layout of the camera ensures that the shot is always centered, avoiding offsetting or skewing the image and providing a balanced and natural viewing angle.
The Honor Magic V3 we got our hands on is the velvet black version, with a delicate aerospace special fiber on the back, which feels similar to frosted glass and is extremely smooth, giving it a silky touch. And it's important to note that this material is both light and strong, 40 times more impact resistant than regular glass, and heat resistant to better protect the inside of the phone.
It's about as strong as carbon fiber, but lighter and stronger than any other fiber material used in phones on the market.
Compared to its predecessor, the camera layout of the Honor Magic V3 has shifted from a vertical alignment on the left side to a circular design in the center surrounded by a unique octagonal bezel, adding a visual effect of balance and harmony to the phone.
This design cleverly creates a smooth transition area between the bezel and the back panel, avoiding raw edges and making the overall appearance smoother, while improving comfort when holding the phone.
The center frame of Honor Magic V3 is made of self-developed 7-series aluminum, which achieves a strength of up to 530 MPa while lightening and reducing weight.
Unfolding the phone, the inner screen adopts a 7.92-inch 10:9 ratio screen with a resolution of 2344×2156, ensuring the clarity and detail of the screen display.
And this inner screen also uses LTPO substrate, and the refresh rate can be intelligently adjusted in the 1-120Hz range to adapt to different use scenarios, which not only ensures the smooth display of the screen, but also effectively reduces energy consumption.
The top and bottom of the phone are equipped with independent speakers, forming a symmetrical stereo sound field, the top of the built-in infrared remote control sensor, with two noise-canceling microphones, and the bottom of the phone is equipped with a Type-C charging port and SIM card slot.
Honor Magic V3 compared with the iPhone, in the folded state of the thickness is slightly thicker than a drop, in the unfolding table under the thickness is almost half of the iPhone.
When you get your hands on it, you can use the word "stunning" to describe it, the grip of the phone is almost the same as a straight screen phone, and the thickness is moderate in the folded state, so it's easy to hold it with one hand.
Even with such a large-screen phone, it hardly weighs anything when you put it in your pocket in the summer, making it easy and convenient to carry. As far as the thinness of the phone is concerned, the Honor Magic V3 even surpasses some straight plate phones, and the thinness and lightness of the folding screen is undoubtedly one of the highlights of Honor.
The Lupin Shield steel hinge of Honor Magic V3 draws on racing-level lightweight crashproof design, applying the front and rear shell carbon fiber integrated hot pressing process to the hinge's pivot door plate, making the hinge stronger and more durable.
This innovative process not only increases the durability of the hinge by 30%, but also allows the phone to be folded 500,000 times without breaking, and at the same time, it has received high quality certification from SGS in Switzerland.
The phone case, which comes with the phone, integrates a protective ring at the lens and can also be used as a phone stand.
The charger supports 66W Honor SuperCharge fast charging.
III, the screen experience: inside and outside the dual high frequency PWM to create the industry's most folding screen
As we all know, Honor is the first brand to integrate the internal and external dual LTPO screen into the folding screen phone, which further contributes to the eye protection maturity of the folding screen phone.
This time, Honor Magic V3 in this field to further deep plowing, the first equipped with Honor vision soothing oasis eye protection screen, the external screen support 4320Hz PWM, the internal screen support 3840Hz PWM, the eye protection ability, far more than the IEEE standard safety threshold, leading the phone into the "strobe safety zone" of more than 3.125KHz.
Moreover, Honor also pioneered AI active eye protection, developed a new eye protection function, called "AI out of focus eye protection" function, using advanced AI eye protection technology, through the screen to achieve "retina level out of focus", mainly in watching long videos and reading.
For example, when watching applications such as Lovecraft or Tomato free novels, it can temporarily improve myopia and effectively alleviate vision problems.
In short, the eye protection function of Honor Magic V3 is like a SPA for your eyes, so that your eyes are not tired even when you look at your phone for a long time, and it can also help alleviate myopia.
Wisdom table, we can put the phone in the form of bracket state, calendar state and tent state three forms on the desktop, this time the phone immediately transformed into a desktop clock, always accompany you around, the date and time at a glance know.
In order to improve the convenience of operation and multitasking ability, Honor Magic V3 is designed with an intuitive and easy-to-use bottom Dock bar.
Users only need to gently slide up, the Dock bar is instantly displayed, and the interface of the application currently in use will not shrink, ensuring that users can seamlessly switch and immerse themselves in the current application.
By clicking on the app icon in the Dock bar and simply dragging it, users can quickly realize app split screen or generate an app hover window to effectively multitask and improve work efficiency and user experience.
This design allows users to operate more flexibly and conveniently when they need to work on multiple tasks at the same time, and quickly switch or work in parallel without exiting the current app.
The new parallel space allows your phone to run two separate systems at the same time, one for work and one for personal life.
Simply flare out with two fingers on your folding screen phone, and you can easily drag and drop files and photos between the two systems.
This way you can separate your work from your life, be more focused at work, and completely relax after work without worrying about calls or messages from work interrupting your personal time.
IV, the image: full focal length periscope three camera steady folding screen image first echelon
Honor Magic V3 is equipped with a 50-megapixel SLR-grade Honor Eagle Eye main camera with a 1/1.56-inch large bottom CMOS, and secondly, the 8-line SMA-style OIS of the Magic6 series is also brought to you to further consolidate the phone's telephoto and anti-shake capabilities, and in such a small space as the folding screen, it can be stuffed with flagship-level image configurations, and it has to be said that the Honor Magic V3's industrial design capabilities are on a new level.
The periscope telephoto camera uses a 50-megapixel 1/2.51-inch sensor, supports 50-megapixel direct out, has a 3.5X optical zoom, supports up to 100X zoom, and also supports OIS optical stabilization.
The ultra wide-angle lens is a 40-megapixel CMOS that supports a maximum F2.2 aperture with a 112° wide angle.
--Main Camera
We shot some samples with the main camera of the Honor Magic V3, and even though the weather was a bit cloudy, it gave us samples with vibrant colors, maintained a relatively rich dynamic range, and the images didn't look gloomy.
--Portrait
The portrait samples taken by Honor Magic V3 using the 3.5x periscope telephoto will automatically make the subject of the character more prominent through the background defocusing, and it also pays special attention to the natural rendering of the character's skin color and the retention of details.
The skin of the characters avoids the unnatural effect caused by over-beautification, and the characters look both real and vivid.
--Night Scene
In terms of night scene, the picture output from the Honor Magic V3 through the night scene mode is able to accurately control the light from different distances, and in the face of direct light sources, it effectively avoids the occurrence of phenomena such as light diffusion and halo.
At the same time, its white balance is adjusted very accurately to ensure that the color temperature of the image remains true even in the presence of brightly lit signs, and the black sky is so pure that there is no noise to be seen.
--Subliminal telephoto
The images captured by the periscope telephoto lens benefit from a 3.5x optical zoom, so even when the image is digitally zoomed to 10x, the captured image still maintains excellent brightness and contrast, and there is no excessive loss of image quality due to the zoom.
This is thanks to advanced computational optical photography technology that finely processes and optimizes image details, ensuring that photos maintain a high level of clarity even after zooming.
At the same time, when shooting with a telephoto lens, you can effectively avoid cluttered background elements and present pure and clear images.
--Ultra Wide Angle
Ultra wide-angle lens, the default given to the distortion correction function, the shooting of the picture on both sides without barrel distortion, more suitable for shooting some wide buildings.
During the shooting process, we found that the three cameras of the Honor Magic V3 may have a certain lack of white balance consistency, and I believe that the future iteration of the system of honor will also fix this problem.
V. Satellite communication: Hongyan satellite communication fast star search speed can call and send text messages without the network
Honor Magic V3 debuts the Tiantong satellite communication capability in the folding screen field, which, combined with Honor Hongyan communication technology, makes up the dual communication capability of Tiantong satellite real-time calls + two-way SMS.
Honor Hongyan communication we have seen before in the Magic6 series, it is faster to search the star, lower power consumption, and the call time is longer compared to other satellite communications.
After testing, Honor Magic V3 does not need to search for stars, and it can be directly aligned with the satellite, and it can successfully connect to the satellite in about 15 seconds.
Don't look at just a few seconds faster, imagine, when you are in a remote place, the phone suddenly lost signal, and you urgently need to make a distress call, if the cell phone's star search and connection speed is slow, then when you make a call, you may have missed the best time to call for help, in an emergency situation is a critical moment of life and death.
In the call interface will open the hands-free by default, and the satellite signal status will be presented in the form of a small window, which will guide the user to adjust the orientation of the phone in real time to ensure smooth communication.
Moreover, the Hongyan satellite communication of Honor Magic V3 can make satellite calls for up to 5 hours.
Imagine when you need emergency assistance in a remote area, if the phone can only talk for 5 minutes, you may not even be able to say where you are.
But with Honor Magic V3, we don't have to worry at all about the limitation of call time, ensuring that we can get timely rescue in an emergency.
And in the case of emergency rescue, it can also instruct the other party how to save themselves, such as how to treat wounds and maintain body temperature. In this way, even if you meet an accident, you can calmly respond and protect your safety.
It is worth saying that Honor Magic V3 is also the only folding screen phone in the industry that can still initiate a satellite phone call with a low battery of 5%, which provides users with a last resort communication guarantee in extreme situations.
Honor Magic V3 provides a variety of preset text content on the satellite SMS sending interface, while users can also modify or enter customized text according to their personal needs.
In addition, on the SMS interface, the status of the satellite signal will be displayed through a small window and will instruct the user in real time how to adjust the orientation of the phone to ensure the continuity and stability of communication.
Before sending a text message, users have the opportunity to add their current location information, and once the message has been sent, the receiving end will be able to view the content of the message that the sending end has just sent, along with the accompanying detailed location information, on the sending interface.
On the receiving end, you can view the current location of the person seeking help in the form of a map, and call the Gaode map to go to the location for assistance.
In the future, Honor Magic V3 will also provide a version that supports dual satellites in the future, that is, it supports the function of dual satellite communication at the same time, which improves the signal coverage by 100% compared with the support of single-satellite communication only, so you may look forward to it.
VI, charging life: 42 minutes full charge 7.92-inch internal screen easily used for a day
Honor Magic V3 built-in third-generation Qinghai Lake battery is the industry's first silicon carbon negative battery with a silicon content of 10%, and its battery energy density is up to 773Wh/L, reaching the industry's leading level.
Moreover, the battery is small in size and large in capacity, with an average thickness of only 2.6mm, thinner than other brands of phones.
Magic V3 is paired with Honor's intelligent power management system, which allows the battery to be fully charged and last for a long time, making it easy to cope with high load usage for a whole day.
At the same time, Magic V3 is also compatible with 50W wireless charging and 66W wired fast charging, and the fact that it can stuff a high-power wireless charging coil under such a thin body shows Honor's excellent pursuit of technological innovation.
In this regard, we also tested the charging and battery life of Honor Magic V3.
--Charging test
The phone's power starts at 5% using the Super Fast Charge Extreme Mode for screen extinguishing charging, the power reaches 41% in 10 minutes, the power is halfway to 69% in 20 minutes, the power is charged to 86% after half an hour, and it finally takes 42 minutes to completely fill up.
For a large folding with a 5150mAh battery and a slim 4.35 mm thickness in the unfolded state, this charging speed is already considered to be the industry's leading level.
--Battery life test
We adjusted the brightness of the phone's screen to 50%, the volume was adjusted to about 30%, and watched the B station with the external screen for 1 hour, and the power dropped from 100% to 96%, consuming 4% of the power.
Then watch Jitterbug for 1 hour, the power dropped to 88%, this range, even if you are a heavy user of Jitterbug, range anxiety does not exist at all!
VII: summary: the strength of the strongest thin and light folding
Honor has always believed that making the folding screen thin is the future trend, so in the last generation of Magic V2, the first to introduce the concept of lightness and thinness into the horizontal folding phone, breaking through the boundaries of the folding screen phone and the straight plate phone in terms of weight and thickness, and leading the trend of the future development of the folding machine.
This year's Honor Magic V3, with a folded thickness of 9.2mm, a 4.35mm unfolded thickness, and a light weight of 226g, once again refreshed the thin and light limit of folding screen phones, and its comprehensive experience compared to the previous generation of Magic V2 came to a cross-generation upgrade.
When you get the Honor Magic V3, the first feeling is "thin", a dual-screen folding, its grip and straight-screen phone is almost no difference, with a sentence to describe its thin and light: light enough to control the form of a straight-screen phone, thin enough to go in and out of the pocket of the jeans at will.
Many people may think that the phone is made thin, the battery life will certainly not be able to top.
But Honor Magic V3 thanks to the third generation of Qinghai Lake battery technology, in the reduction of thickness and weight at the same time, the battery capacity further increased to 5150mAh, but also ensures that the overall battery life of the phone to be stronger.
In our tests, after 2 hours of watching Jitterbug on a large screen, the power can still be maintained at about 90%, so the battery life anxiety can be completely relieved.
Image-wise, the full-focus triple camera of the Honor Magic V3 can bring more comprehensive shooting and focal length coverage, and the light and thin folding can also realize the flagship experience of being able to shoot both near and far.
Honor Magic V3, while achieving the ultimate in thinness and lightness, the top screen, the top image, the top processor, the top charging and battery life are all given to you, but also the first satellite communication function in the large folding, and even IPX8 dust and waterproofing and wireless charging are all available.
Comprehensively speaking, the Honor Magic V3 Honor Magic V3, in breaking our thoughts on the folding machine thick and heavy, poor experience at the same time, did not make any compromises in the hardware configuration, but instead in a number of aspects of the realization of the transcendence, in the field of the folding machine, this is a full flagship, which is also the biggest significance of the birth of the Honor Magic V3.
"Lighter, thinner, more powerful", this sentence perfectly summarizes the core advantages of Honor Magic V3.
