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Honor Unveils Magic V5 as World’s Thinnest and Lightest Foldable Phone

China’s Magic V5 launch highlights Honor’s silicon-carbon battery breakthroughs with on-device AI in advance of an upcoming global debut.

Honor Magic V5: The white version is the thinnest.
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Honor's Magic V5 foldable is the company's latest venture in China's fiercely-competitive smartphone market.
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Overview

  • Honor’s Magic V5 debuts in China with a folded profile of 8.8 mm and unfolded thickness of 4.1 mm, weighing as little as 217 g to reclaim the record for slimness and weight
  • Powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and up to 16 GB of RAM, the device features a 7.95-inch inner and a 6.45-inch cover LTPO OLED display running at 120 Hz
  • A wafer-thin silicon-carbon battery packs up to 6,100 mAh capacity while supporting 66 W wired fast charging and 50 W wireless charging
  • Honor’s Yoyo AI agent operates on-device to generate presentation decks from shared content and coordinate ride-hailing across multiple apps
  • Honor will roll out the Magic V5 internationally in the coming weeks to directly challenge Samsung’s next-generation foldable and grow its sub-2 percent market segment share