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Honor Magic V5 review: thinner, faster, stronger - but expensive


The Honor Magic V5 is the brand's new foldable, with new cameras, a bigger battery and more. Reece has put it through its paces to see if it's worth your time.

Both panels can get up to 5000 nits of peak brightness with HDR in supported content for an eyeball-searing experience; these screens aren't half short of punch, and are both OLEDs for immense depth and lovely colours. Attribution Here is a selection of photos from my time with the Honor Magic V5.Cropping into shots reveals a strong maintenance of detail from the main and ultrawide sensors, while the 3x optical zoom provides some good quality when punching in on a subject a tad. Internally, the Magic V5 gets the proper flagship treatment for 2025, as you'd expect for a phone at its high price tag, benefitting from the new Snapdragon 8 Elite processor plus 16GB of RAM and 512GB storage for good measure.

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