Honor Magic V5

Brand: Honor
Category: Mobiles

Processor: Qualcomm SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite
RAM: 12 GB, 16 GB
Storage: 256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB
Display: 7.95 inches
Camera: Triple Camera
Battery: Si/C Li-Ion 5820 mAh - International model / Si/C Li-Ion 6100 mAh - China model

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our editors

9.1 4.6 1

Design 9 / 10
Display 9 / 10
Camera 9 / 10
Features 9 / 10
Connectivity 9 / 10
Usability 9 / 10
Performance 10 / 10
Battery 9 / 10

Honor Magic V5 has been officially released on July 2, 2025.

Product Main Features:

The device is a premium foldable smartphone boasting a futuristic design and powerful internals. It features a massive 7.95-inch LTPO AMOLED inner display with 1B colors, 120Hz refresh rate, and an impressive 5000 nits peak brightness. The outer display is a 6.43-inch LTPO OLED, also reaching 5000 nits, protected by Honor’s Anti-scratch NanoCrystal Shield.

Both screens offer stunning visuals with over 400 ppi density. Running on Android 15 with MagicOS 9, it’s powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite (3nm) chipset and Adreno 830 GPU, ensuring ultra-fast performance. You get up to 1TB storage with 16GB RAM, although there’s no memory card slot.

Camera capabilities are flagship-grade, featuring a 50MP main sensor with OIS, a 64MP periscope telephoto with 3x zoom, and a 50MP ultrawide lens. Both selfie and cover cameras are 20MP with support for 4K video. The foldable phone has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, stereo speakers, NFC, infrared, and Wi-Fi 7.

Honor Magic V5 supports stylus input and includes advanced features like Circle to Search. Battery options include 5820mAh (global) or 6100mAh (China) with 66W wired, 50W wireless, and reverse charging. It’s IP58/IP59 rated for water and dust resistance, and comes in four premium colors.

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Honor Magic V5 - SPECIFICATIONS

General

Model

Honor Magic V5
Released

July 2025
Status

Available

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.

Bar
Dimensions

Unfolded: 156.8 x 145.9 x 4.1 mm or 4.2 mm / Folded: 156.8 x 74.3 x 8.8 mm or 9.0 mm
Weight

217 Grams
Waterproof

No

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)

Foldable LTPO AMOLED
Size

7.95 inches
Resolution

2172 x 2352 pixels
Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.

1B colors
Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.

403 PPI (pixels per inch)
Touch Screen

Yes
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.

Honor Super Armored Inner Screen
Features

Cover display:
LTPO OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, 5000 nits (peak)
6.43 inches, 1060 x 2376 pixels, 404 ppi, Honor Anti-scratch NanoCrystal Shield

Hardware

CPU The main chipset of the device.

Qualcomm SM8750-AB Snapdragon 8 Elite (3 nm) Octa-core (2x4.32 GHz Oryon V2 Phoenix L + 6x3.53 GHz Oryon V2 Phoenix M)
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.

Adreno 830
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.

12 GB, 16 GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.

256 GB, 512 GB, 1 TB
Memory Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.

No
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.

Fingerprint (side-mounted), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer
Circle to Search

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.

Android 15
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.

MagicOS 9

Camera

Rear Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.

50 MP (wide) + 64 MP (periscope telephoto) + 50 MP (ultrawide)
Image

2160p
Video

4K@30/60fps (10-bit), 1080p@30/60fps
Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)

LED flash
Front Camera

20 MP (wide) + 20 MP (wide)

Network

SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.

Nano SIM
Dual SIM

Yes

Connectivity

Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.

Yes
USB

Type-C 3.1
GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.

Yes
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Yes
Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.

Yes
Headphone Jack

No

Battery

Capacity Battery Capacity

Si/C Li-Ion 5820 mAh - International model / Si/C Li-Ion 6100 mAh - China model + 66W wired + 50W wireless + 5W reverse wired
Placement

Non-Removable

Media

Video Playback

Yes
Video Out

Yes
FM Radio

No
Ring Tones

Yes
Loudspeaker

Yes
Handsfree

Yes

Data

4G LTE 4G LTE bands

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28, 34, 38, 39, 40, 41, 66
5G NR Bands

1, 3, 5, 8, 28, 38, 41, 77, 78 SA/NSA
Speed

HSPA, LTE, 5G