Honor Magic V5
Specifications

Secondary Camera: 20 MPix (f/2.2) | Cover camera: 20 MPix
Price comparison
Average of 9 scores (from 28 reviews)
Reviews for the Honor Magic V5
The Honor Magic V5 is nominally the thinnest foldable smartphone in the world, boasting numerous premium features while still offering a large battery, pen support, fast charging, and a high IP rating. Check our review to see if there’s a catch.
Source: Hardware Zone

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%
Source: Pokde

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%
Source: Hardware Zone

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%
Source: Lowyat.net

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
Source: Canbuyornot

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%
Source: Hitech Century

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%
Source: Cool Smartphone

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
Source: Tech Advisor

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
Source: TechTablets

Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/02/2025
Source: Expert Reviews

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
Source: The Tech Chap

Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2025
Source: Vopmart

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
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
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
Foreign Reviews
Source: Heute

Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/26/2025
Source: Igizmo

Positive: Slim size; light weight; premium design; large battery capacity; quick 66W charging; beautiful display; nice cameras; smooth performance.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/26/2025
Source: Igizmo

Positive: Trendy design; slim size; light weight; great built quality; long battery life; quick 66W charging; nice AI cameras; impressive dual displays; powerful processor; high performance. Negative: Without microSD card slot.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/07/2025
Source: Journal du Geek

Positive: Light weight; trendy design; great built quality; decent performance; good autonomy; nice cameras. Negative: Not very slim size.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/04/2025
Source: Frandroid

Positive: Slim size; light weight; premium design; solid workmanship; great dual displays; powerful CPU; high performance; large battery capacity; quick 66W charging; nice cameras.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/04/2025
Source: Telepolis

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/18/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: GSM Online PL

Positive: Trendy design; great built quality; very slim size; light weight; impressive autonomy.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/11/2025
Source: Unite4buy

Positive: Impressive design; great built quality; nice display; powerful hardware; high performance; long battery life; nice cameras; stereo speakers; 5G; NFC module. Negative: No memory card slot; high price.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/04/2025
Source: MobilArena HU

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/11/2025
Rating: price: 80% display: 100% mobility: 80% workmanship: 90%
Source: Tech World

Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/10/2025
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 80% performance: 90% mobility: 90% workmanship: 90%
Source: Smartmania.cz

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/14/2025
Rating: Total score: 88% performance: 89% features: 87% mobility: 83% workmanship: 92%
Source: XT Mobile

Positive: Trendy design; high performance; slim size; large battery capacity; nice cameras.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/25/2025
Source: Laptop.bg

Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/14/2025
Source: Gadget leaker 64

Positive: Premium design; great built quality; nice performance; good speakers; large battery capacity; quick charging. Negative: Overheats while using; average cameras & display.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/15/2025
Comment
Qualcomm Adreno 830: Integrated graphics unit in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC for smartphones with three slices with 1.1 GHz each. Integrated 12 MB shared cache for the three slices. According to Qualcomm, 40% faster than the previous generation (Adreno 750).
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
SD 8 Elite: High-end SoC (System on a Chip) for smartphones which was presented at the end of 2024. It integrates two fast Oryon Gen 2 Prime Cores with up to 4.32 GHz and 6 smaller Oryon Gen 2 Performance Cores with up to 3.53 GHz.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
7.95":
This display format is in the mid-range for smartphones. It offers a compromise between good visibility, details and resolution on the screen, and you can still fit it into trouser pockets.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Honor:
In 2014 Huawei created the sub brand Honor and offers certain smartphone series under this name. Occasionally the products are also called Huawei Honor.
The market share of Honor products is manageable, but there are several reviews on Honor smartphones with average ratings (as of 2016).
86.12%: This is an above-average rating. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that about one fifth of all tested models receive a better rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.