date of publication:
Jan 11 2022 20:47 GMT
Update date: Jan 11 2022 21:45 GMT
The Chinese company “Honor” has unveiled its new phone, “Honor Magic V”, which is its first foldable smartphone, similar to the “Samsung Galaxy Z Fold”.
The new phone combines a large internal foldable screen with a smaller external screen that can be used while the device is folded.
The company announced that it launched the device in China on Monday, and will officially go on sale on January 18, with a starting price of 9,999 yen (about $1,569) for the 256GB storage model.
“Honor” – the former sub-brand of “Huawei” – said that the main feature of its “Magic V” phone is the foldable internal screen, which comes in 7.9 inches from corner to corner, with a resolution of 2272 x 1984 with a refresh rate of 90 Hz, and an aspect ratio of It has a height of 10:9. This is slightly larger than the Samsung Z Fold 3, which has a 7.6-inch internal screen with a resolution of 2208 x 1768.
The company added, that the internal screen of the “Magic V” is similar to using two 21:9 screens side by side. The external display is also slightly larger than the Z Fold 3 at 6.45 inches (compared to Samsung’s 6.2), with a 2560 x 1080 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and a 21:9 aspect ratio.
Honor claims this will help make the device more usable when you don’t want to open it.
As for the internal specifications and settings, “Magic V” comes with the latest chipset of the American company “Qualcomm” “Snapdragon 8 Gen 1”, paired with 12 GB of random access memory (RAM) and 256 GB or 512 GB of storage.
The new phone has a 4750mAh battery that can be charged up to 66W, giving the user a 50% charge in 15 minutes. The phone supports fifth generation networks (5G) and works with the new “Honor” interface, “Magic UI 6.0” with the “Android 12” update, which supports displaying many application windows at the same time, as “Honor” claims.
With regard to cameras, Honor has included three 50-megapixel sensors on the back of the foldable device, which include a main sensor and an ultra-fast camera, in addition to another feature that the company calls a “spectrum-enhanced camera.”
The Magic V contains a pair of 42-megapixel selfie cameras, one of which is integrated into the external screen, and the other is integrated into the foldable internal screen.
With its new foldable phone, Honor joins an increasingly long list of companies that have either announced or started selling foldable smartphones. Recently, Oppo announced Find N late last year and was preceded by Huawei. With the “P50 Pocket” phone.
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