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 no stutter, and it by no means acquired heat. The massive display screen is right for gaming and video, however I loved studying on the Kindle app too. I favor a laptop computer for work, however the Honor Magic V3 additionally proved helpful as a surrogate second display screen 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 shocked to search out it commonly lasted two days between costs. When it’s worthwhile to high up, you possibly can charge 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.
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 much more polished, however I nonetheless encountered just a few wee irritations.
The transition between the entrance and inside screens often went mistaken and displayed one thing stretched or squashed. As soon as, the within display screen was utterly unresponsive, however closing and opening fastened the difficulty. I acquired 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, 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 simple to customise and comes with only a sprinkling of bloatware. You may as well determine the best way to benefit from the twin display screen 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 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 gadget by way of design, however received’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 really glorious folding telephone, possibly even the most effective folding telephone you should buy proper now. That mentioned, you continue to don’t want a folding telephone.
