After revealing the name of the company’s first flagship foldable 2 days ago, the Honor Magic V has received its first leak(well, you can’t seal them all). The leak comes from the Chinese Weibo user, Changan Digital King, who shared a photo of what seems like an internal conference meeting discussing the highlights of the Honor Magic V.
The slide shown on-screen highlights that the Honor Magic V will be the leader in the foldable market as the industry’s first Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 foldable, equipped with the performance to crush its industry peers.
In other news, the CEO of Honor, Zhao Ming, was recently interviewed to talk more about the upcoming Honor Magic V. In the video, he mentions that some phone manufacturers got the wrong idea of what a foldable should be, in that a foldable should be two devices in one, not one device shrunken down to an unuseful display.
In simpler terms, he thinks that the future of foldables is the folding-book style designs, like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 and Oppo Find N, unlike the clamshell flip-phone designs of the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 and Huawei P50 Pocket.
In the interview, Zhao Ming also mentions that Honor is looking to integrate a tablet-sized screen into the body of a smartphone with its latest in-house technology, which includes Honor’s new generation of hinges to minimize the screen crease, better split-screen navigation for a better multitasking experience and better ergonomics for the user to feel more effortless in switching between the cover and the inner displays.
Indirectly, through the interview, the CEO had officially confirmed that the Honor Magic V is a folding-book type foldable, similar to that of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3. With promo and teasers already underway, it is about time for the launch date for the Honor Magic V to drop soon in the coming weeks.
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