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 bought heat. The massive display is good 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 after I was lacking my twin 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 search out it repeatedly lasted two days between fees. When it’s good to high up, you possibly can cost wirelessly at as much as 50 watts or plug in for as much as 66 watts, sufficient to totally cost the Magic V3 in beneath an hour. It warns you to unfold the telephone to juice up the twin batteries at most velocity.
Last Hurdle
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The Honor Magic V3 is a pleasant system. 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 Evaluation), its software program doesn’t fairly attain the identical heights. Pleasingly, the Magic V3 feels way more polished, however I nonetheless encountered just a few wee irritations.
The transition between the entrance and inside screens often went incorrect and displayed one thing stretched or squashed. As soon as, the within display was fully unresponsive, however closing and opening fastened the problem. I bought sick of the battery warning in regards to the Oura app however couldn’t discover any approach to cease it. Sure apps, just like the Play Retailer, stored 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. You can too determine easy methods to benefit from the twin display with a number of home windows and totally different layouts within the settings. You may anticipate 4 years of OS updates and 5 years of safety patches (wanting the seven years Google and Samsung promise, however not unhealthy).
The apparent opponents for the Magic V3 are the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 and the Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold, and it’s a well-known trade-off: Do you go for slick software program or superior {hardware}? The Xiaomi Combine Fold 4 is the closest system by way of design, however received’t be launched exterior of China, so the Honor Magic V3 is a better option for most people. Regardless of the minor foibles, this can be a really glorious folding telephone, perhaps even the very best folding telephone you should buy proper now. That mentioned, you continue to don’t want a folding telephone.
