Honor Magic V5

Honor Magic V5: Better Value And A Monster Battery, But Can It Beat The Competition?
Source: Slashgear EN→zh-CN
Overall, this is an easy phone to love, with the only exception to that being the nighttime camera performance. Then there's the other caveat — U.S. customers need not apply. That's a shame, and we've already discussed the baggage that keeps Honor from entering the U.S. market. But really, we're missing out on some great phones. There's also the fact that this phone is pricey, but undercuts Samsung's (£1,799 U.K., €2,099 Germany, as of September 2025) Galaxy Z Fold 7 by £100 — or £200 if you take RAM/ROM configuration into account. Then there's the battery tech, which is very common in markets not in the U.S. and allows a battery which is a full 32% bigger. That's ridiculous, either oh Honor's part, Samsung part, or more likely both.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/09/2025

90% Honor Magic V5 Review: Who Has the Best Foldable?
Source: Nextpit EN EN→zh-CN
Ever since the Magic V3 was released, Honor has been the undisputed leader in foldable smartphones. With top specifications within an ultra-thin design, it simply offered more than the competition from Samsung. However, 2025 happened, where Samsung followed suit with the Galaxy Fold7 — and revealed a radically redesigned model that significantly bridged the gap with its Chinese competition. Now, the Galaxy Fold7 and the Honor Magic V5 are two serious contenders in direct competition for the foldable crown. We reviewed the new Magic V5 in detail to find out whether Honor can maintain its leading position.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/29/2025
Rating: Total score: 90%

80% Honor Magic V5 review: a better choice than Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7?
Source: T3 EN→zh-CN
The Honor Magic V5 is an impressive folding phone, offering a slim and lightweight design, plenty of power, a great camera experience, and excellent battery life. From a hardware perspective, there's little missing. The design might be a bit contentious for some – especially the huge camera housing – when compared to Samsung's phone, which I think has a better design. But each to their own. However, software remains a work in progress: Google Pay is absent, there's bloat and duplication and a reworking of some of Android that doesn't always work in my opinion. That's typical for Honor phones, though, and if you're happy with that, the Magic V5 could indeed be a foldable slice of magic in your pocket.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/29/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%

Honor Magic V5 Foldable Phone Review: Redefining Foldable Design and Power
Source: Yanko Design EN→zh-CN
The Honor Magic V5 represents a watershed moment in foldable smartphone development. By achieving the title of world’s thinnest foldable, Honor proved that thinness and durability can coexist beautifully. The Ivory White model’s remarkable 8.8mm folded and 4.1mm unfolded dimensions set a genuinely new standard for the category. What makes the Magic V5 special, however, goes beyond record-breaking dimensions. This is a foldable that disappears into your pocket like a regular phone, yet unfolds into a productivity powerhouse when needed. The seven-year software support commitment, combined with advanced materials and engineering, suggests longevity rather than quick obsolescence. For those ready to embrace mobile computing’s future, the Honor Magic V5 offers a compelling glimpse of what that future looks like.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/28/2025
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% ergonomy: 80%

75% Honor Magic V5 review: thin-believable!
Source: Phone Arena EN→zh-CN
In general, the Honor Magic V5 has all the markings of a top-tier modern foldable. Its thin, its displays are brilliant, its cameras are not the best but more than adequate. Its performance is fantastic, and its software is a hodge-podge of all the useful multitasking features you've seen competitors do. From triple-app multitasking to saving screenshots and documents to a "Favorites" space, to AI features for image, text, and voice. And it still supports a stylus! In Europe, the Honor Magic V5 is slightly cheaper than the Galaxy Z Fold 7 — its main rival — and I'd say that it does have the chops to stand up to it. If you are in the US, the Honor Magic V5 may be an exotic but risky buy. First, you have to go through a 3rd party reseller. Which also means that support and warranty may be spotty. Second you have to double- and triple-check if you can connect it to your carrier.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/28/2025
Rating: Total score: 75% performance: 81% display: 80% mobility: 64% workmanship: 80%

100% The Honor Magic V5 is the ultra-skinny foldable phone I’d pick for photography
Source: Stuff TV EN→zh-CN
Examined on its lonesome, the Magic V5 is a superb smartphone. It’s stupendously slim, takes impressively detailed photos at all zoom levels, and has serious stamina between charges. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is the elephant in the room, but every time the Magic V5’s software felt clunkier or less customisable than Samsung’s, something would swing things back in the Honor’s favour. The fact it’s effectively £200 (around $270) cheaper than a Fold 7 with the same amount of storage shouldn’t be overlooked, either. Crucially foldable fans now have a genuine choice between two fantastic handsets. Those who value battery life and telephoto photography should seriously consider the Honor.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 08/28/2025
Rating: Total score: 100%

90% Honor Magic V5 review: Even thinner, even lighter, even more powerful
Source: Hardware Zone EN→zh-CN
While it also comes with a slightly higher price tag of S$2,199, we feel that the Magic V5 still offers excellent value compared to other pricey book-style foldables such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 or OPPO Find N5, even if its battery uptime in controlled testing isn’t as high as its predecessor. Not to mention, the higher price tag is also due to the additional RAM and faster storage offered on the Magic V5 compared to the V3, and we haven’t yet even accounted for other tangible improvements that the phone boasts. The ability to have three apps running at the same time is a boon for productivity, and there’s a decent suite of AI tools that work well enough without becoming too gimmicky. The cameras are fantastic, and the upgraded 64MP telephoto lens with 3.5x optical zoom offers more flexibility when shooting far-away subjects.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/27/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 90% performance: 85% workmanship: 90%

83% HONOR Magic V5 Review – The Best Has Gotten Better
Source: Pokde EN→zh-CN
The HONOR Magic V5 sets a new standard for slim foldables without compromising on performance or features. It delivers solid photography, smooth display performance, and excellent battery life in a surprisingly thin package. While the camera bump and video playback quirks are notable drawbacks, its value proposition is hard to ignore, especially at a competitive price point of RM6,999. For those considering a foldable phone, the Magic V5 is a serious contender.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/22/2025
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 75% performance: 80% mobility: 88% workmanship: 85%

90% Honor Magic V5 review: Even thinner, even lighter, even more powerful
Source: Hardware Zone EN→zh-CN
Honor somehow manages to improve on its flagship foldable year-on-year. From the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chip to the new dust resistance rating, or a bigger battery with further reduced thickness and weight, the Magic V5 is an upgrade across the board. While it also comes with a slightly higher price tag of S$2,199, we feel that the Magic V5 still offers excellent value compared to other pricey book-style foldables such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 or OPPO Find N5, even if its battery uptime in controlled testing isn’t as high as its predecessor. Not to mention, the higher price tag is also due to the additional RAM and faster storage offered on the Magic V5 compared to the V3, and we haven’t yet even accounted for other tangible improvements that the phone boasts.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 90% performance: 85% workmanship: 90%

HONOR Magic V5 Review: Multitasking Maniac
Source: Lowyat.net EN→zh-CN
HONOR Magic V5As the market becomes saturated with newly released foldables, the HONOR Magic V5 certainly faces some tough competition. While its form factor is impressive, there other phones are capable of matching its thinness, as evidenced in the competition tab. That said, there is more to the device than its appearance, which, by the way, is quite bewitching. Its deceptively durable build, IP59 rating, and stylus support stand, in my humble opinion, as its strong points. It also comes with lots of practical features. The highlight is naturally the multitasking function, which is fun, convenient, and easy to access. For RM6,999, the Magic V5 certainly lives up to its name, offering an experience that’s nothing short of enchanting.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/18/2025

90% Honor Magic V5 Review – Ultraslim foldable flagship tested
Source: Hitech Century EN→zh-CN
When it comes to flagship book-style foldables, there are really only a few serious choices in the game and the Honor Magic V5 is one of them. You get the world’s slimmest phone with flagship-grade displays and hardware, good cameras and solid build quality. Add in its generous assortment of free accessories that include a casing and a charger and the Honor Magic V5 makes for a compelling choice if you’re looking for a flagship foldable.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/16/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 90% performance: 90% display: 100% mobility: 80%

80% Honor Magic V5 review: Slimmest yet
Source: Canbuyornot EN→zh-CN
If there's a prize for the slimmest foldable phone, then the Honor Magic V5 is definitely taking it — for now. At 8.88mm thick, Honor's latest foldable is so thin, it feels just like a regular phone. Compared against, say the newest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, which claims a 8.9mm thickness, you can barely tell the difference. But as slim as it may be, you still have to get used to the phone's massive camera bump, which really sticks out. It also doesn't help that the camera makes the Honor Magic V5 unbalanced when unfolded, which feels a tad irritating when trying to use it while it's lying on the table. The camera bump helps to keep the phone stable when folded, though.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/16/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%

Honor Magic V5 – Unboxing the world’s skinniest foldable.
Source: Cool Smartphone EN→zh-CN
Foldable phones are lit at the moment and are getting a lot of attention and IMHO rightly so. We have got to the point where we can now make the choice between having a skinny slab with a 6ish-inch display or a skinny phone with two displays, one hiding away until it is needed. All the big players have one (except Apple, but trust me, it’s coming). However, in this spicy but growing sector of the smartphone market, there is a lot of competition to have the best in categories. Honor have stuck to what they do best, as they proved last year with the Honor Magic V3; they have gone thin. They have (for the moment at least) the thinnest* folding phone in the world, the Honor Magic V5, at a preposterous 8.8mm folded and 4.1 mm unfolded. Sounds good, let’s have a closer look then.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/14/2025

I’ve tried the Honor Magic V5 – folding phone hardware doesn’t get any better
Source: Tech Advisor EN→zh-CN
There’s little to say about the software experience at this point. Honor didn’t say much about it and with the focus being initially on the launch in China, I’m not surprised: the software experience built around Google and offering AI features will come in the future. I wouldn’t expect it to vary too much from the sort of thing we’ve seen on the Honor Magic 7 Pro or the Honor 400 Pro, though. But for now I’m happy to put the software to one side. It’s Honor’s hardware that shines and this is going to be a powerful folding phone, which is slim, lightweight and potentially offering great battery life. The ball now falls into Samsung’s court, while we’re expecting to hear more about the Honor Magic V5’s global launch later in the summer. Currently there’s no price on the Honor Magic V5, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it keeps the £1,699.99 asking price.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/02/2025

Honor Magic V5 hands-on review: Slight of hand
Source: Expert Reviews EN→zh-CN
I think a good foldable phone needs to excel in four key areas. It needs to be slim and light, have strong battery life, be robust and durable and have high-class cameras. Considering what you have to pay for the things, this doesn’t seem like an unreasonable list, and yet most foldables on UK shelves fall down in one area or another. I won’t be sure on the battery life or quality of the cameras until the time comes for my full review but, based on the specs, I’d say Honor has a pretty decent balance on its hands. The camera hardware and bigger battery look promising, the slimness of the build is an affront to physics at this point and the dust and water resistance is the best we’ve seen from a foldable so far – though there’s room for Samsung to do better.
Hands-On, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2025

Honor Magic V5 Review
Source: Vopmart EN→zh-CN
With the support of various black technologies, Honor Magic V5 brings 8 full-blood experiences: full-blood folding performance, full-blood satellite communication, full-blood exit experience, full-blood dust and water resistance, full-blood fast charging ecology, full-blood dual-screen experience, full-blood solid external screen, and full-blood periscope telephoto. In summary, Honor Magic V5 uses the four-dimensional strategy of "hardware stacking + process breakthrough + AI interaction + ecological integration" to promote folding screen mobile phones from "form innovation" to "experience revolution". With 8 full-blooded experiences, 8 world records, 8 one-language AIs, and 7 AI ecosystems, it has achieved a comprehensive breakthrough in hardware and folding technology, and brought PC-level productivity with AI intelligence, anchoring the core goal of "letting high-end technology serve practical needs" and reshaping the industry benchmark for folding screen flagships.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/02/2025

Honor Magic V5 Hands-On
Source: ben's gadget reviews
The Honor Magic V5 is here and it reclaims the mantle of the thinnest and lightest foldable phone yet. It's also powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite and features an upgraded 64MP Periscope zoom lens with a faster f/2.5 aperture.
Hands-On, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2025

Honor Magic V5 hands-on and key features
Source: GSM Arena
The Magic V5 is Honor's latest flagship foldable smartphone, and it has just been announced for the Chinese market. A global launch will follow later this summer, but we had the opportunity to do a quick hands-on with this incredibly thin and light device.
Hands-On, online available, Very Short, Date: 07/02/2025

HONOR Magic V5 Unboxing & What To Expect!
Source: TechTablets
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/02/2025

Can Samsung Beat This? [Unboxing the THINNEST Foldable Phone]
Source: The Tech Chap
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2025

Honor Magic V5 mit Snapdragon 8 Elite
Source: Heute DE→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/26/2025

Honor Magic V5: anteprima video del foldable sottile e potente
Source: Igizmo IT→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/26/2025

Honor Magic V5: anteprima video del foldable sottile e potente
Source: Igizmo IT→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/07/2025

Prise en main du Honor Magic V5, serait-ce le plus fin ?
Source: Journal du Geek FR→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/04/2025

On a pris en main le Honor Magic V5 : il envoie du lourd pour battre Samsung
Source: Frandroid FR→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/04/2025

80% Ten smartfon jest tak cienki, że... aż nie ma sensu? Test Honor Magic V5
Source: Telepolis PL→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%

To najcieńszy składany smartfon na świecie – testujemy najnowszy model Honor Magic V5
Source: GSM Online PL PL→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/11/2025

Honor Magic V5 - recenzja, test, opinia i dane techniczne
Source: Unite4buy PL→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/04/2025

Honor Magic V5 - méret a kamera mögött
Source: MobilArena HU HU→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/11/2025
Rating: price: 80% display: 100% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90%

86% Kipróbáltuk a Honor hajlítható csúcstelefonját – Honor Magic V5 teszt
Source: Tech World HU→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/10/2025
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 80% performance: 90% mobility: 90% workmanship: 90%

88% Recenze Honor Magic V5: nabušená výbava v ultratenkém těle
Source: Smartmania.cz CZ→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/14/2025
Rating: Total score: 88% performance: 89% features: 87% mobility: 83% workmanship: 92%

Mở hộp Honor Magic V5: Trên tay mẫu smartphone gập mỏng nhất 2025!
Source: XT Mobile VN→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/25/2025

HONOR Magic V5: Безкомпромисно тънкият сгъваем смартфон пристига в България
Source: Laptop.bg BU→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/14/2025

HONOR Magic V5 開封レビュー。これが世界で最も薄い折畳式機種の実力だ
Source: Gadget leaker 64 JA→zh-CN
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/15/2025