![]() While you can make the camera stand up on its own, and feel clever doing so, this leaves the shutter button in the bent, curved part of the screen. The camera is one of the obvious ways designers can put that hinge to use, letting the phone act as its own tripod, perfect for group shots with long exposures. ![]() However, there’s no real acknowledgement of the device’s form here. This trio can take at least solid photos in virtually all conditions, with no real effort on your part. Honor has tried to avoid this, with a zero-fat triple rear array that includes a powerful 54-MP Sony IMX800 sensor primary camera, a 50-MP ultra-wide and a 3X 8-MP zoom. The phone doesn’t have wireless charging, but it does charge more quickly than its Samsung rival, thanks to 66W charging.Īnd the camera? This is typically an area that ends up a little compromised in foldable phones, even though they typically cost a fortune. It holds up through heavy days of vegging out on those longer train rides mentioned earlier. Battery life is naturally a worry when you’re dealing with a phone-sized battery and an almost tablet-sized display, but the Honor Vs’ stamina is good. It has a 5,000-mAh battery of far higher capacity than the 4,400-mAh Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4. It has since been superseded by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, but that processor was only announced around the same time as this phone’s original Chinese launch. It uses the Snapdragon 8 Get 1+, a powerful flagship processor. The phone holds up better on the technical side. For those used to living with a dedicated app page, this contributes to the sense that the Honor Magic Vs is a little clunky. There’s no option to have an app drawer, just a series of home screens whose app icons need to be arranged manually. The core interface is also oddly restrictive. Without that sort of creative angle, this phone’s tablet-style screen seems almost made for mucking about. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4 has the optional S Pen Fold Edition, a pressure-sensing stylus that can be used for digital painting. Honor also offers few special features in this category. The Honor Magic Vs also lacks any water-resistance rating, which translates to many ways you can destroy your expensive phone. If you’ve been waiting for foldables’ kinks to get worked out before trying one, you should hold off a little longer. And while people seem to claim the classic crease of the larger inner screen is largely gone, it’s still unavoidably apparent when light catches the display. Switching to the Honor Magic Vs, the leap in thickness, weight, and heft is still very noticeable. But once again, this is something only a foldable veteran could possibly appreciate.įor 90 percent of the year, I use standard phones of one brand or another. It’s 12.9-mm thick, much trimmer than the 15.8-mm thickness of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold4. Then there’s the size of the Honor Magic Vs. Honor has completely ditched gears in the hinge, taking much of the bulk out of the mechanism. A nice day out can easily ruin a £1,500 (about $1,870) phone-no drops required. This may not seem like a big deal unless you have ever taken a foldable phone to the beach and ended up with sand in the gears or the hinge, or wreaking havoc on the soft inner screen. Most foldables have an open gap, so as not to squish the bent display too severely. Close the clamshell and the little bits of raised border around the 7.9-inch inner screen meet. One of the Honor Magic Vs’ most headline-grabbing features is its zero-gap hinge. The first of these issues concerns the hinge.
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