// THE VERGE — MOBILE & WEB
Honor’s Magic V6 sets three foldable firsts
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But the bigger battery is the only one that matters.
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On paper, the Honor Magic V6 sounds like a tremendous leap forward for foldable phones: It’s the thinnest one yet, with the biggest battery, and the best water-resistance ever. In practice, only the bigger battery feels like a meaningful improvement. The other upgrades are only fractionally superior to what came before.
This isn’t entirely Honor’s fault. It’s getting harder to make a foldable phone stand out; even last year’s offerings felt like complete flagship phones. Huawei’s Pura X Max stood out for its odd new aspect ratio, which we’re expecting to see both Samsung and Apple replicate later this year. Then there are the trifolds, which feel like a separate beast entirely. But book-style Android foldables have well and truly matured, now able to go toe-to-toe with regular flagship phones in almost every respect.
Honor has been one of the manufacturers pushing foldables forward most aggressively, so it’s earned the right to release a phone with relatively modest hardware improvements. I just wish the company had done more to overhaul the software, as MagicOS remains the main thing holding the Magic V6 back.
The Magic V6 launched at February’s MWC trade show. At the time, it only went on sale in China; it’s taken until now for Honor to begin the global rollout. The phone is now on sale in Malaysia and Singapore, where it costs RM 7,699 (about $1,930). More countries, including the UK and Europe, are set to follow later this month.