The experience of folding screen phones is getting better and better.
"Fold the flagship, show thousands of people", this is the Slogan of the Glory Magic V conference. On January 10, 2022, Honor officially released its first folding screen mobile phone, and a few days ago, Honor CEO Zhao Ming revealed that Honor Magic V will bring revolutionary innovation breakthroughs in three dimensions: folding form, performance experience and application scenarios. What kind of different experience will this time of glory Magic V bring?
The folding screen commonly seen on the market is divided into two camps, with a more compact vertical folding method after folding the fuselage, and a larger horizontal folding method after unfolding. To some extent, there is no good or bad difference between the two folding methods, but to meet the needs of different users in order to face the use scenarios of more users. Honor Magic V chose the latter this time.
The workmanship is exquisite and the feel is handy
Honor Magic V has two versions and three color combinations, which are 12GB+256GB (9999 yuan) and 12GB+512GB (10999 yuan), in addition to the bright silver version in my hand, there are also burning orange and bright black. The bright silver back design is very simple, and there will be a ridge-like bump on the hand, which brings a great improvement to the texture of the whole machine, and the back is relatively less likely to be stained with fingerprints, and it looks more advanced. The camera module on the back adopts the "three-body star ring", and the camera is very coordinated with the design of the back. The Honor Magic V with glass rear shell weighs 293g and the plain leather version weighs 288g. The weight in the hand is not very pressing, and the weight distribution is very balanced, which alleviates the burden of weight to a certain extent. The fingerprint button on the side is centered on the top, the finger can be easily pressed, the unlocking speed is fast, and it can also achieve a high accuracy rate. If you do not have a special preference for screen fingerprints or side fingerprints, capacitive fingerprints are more excellent in terms of response speed and accuracy.
"Small screen" is not small, "big screen" is quite large
Honor Magic V has a 6.45-inch outer screen with a screen ratio of 21.3:9, a resolution of 2560x1080, and a pixel density of 431ppi. The edge of the screen is designed with a micro-curved surface, officially called "curved nano-glass-ceramic", and the feel at the edge is very comfortable to the touch, and the back is also treated in the same way. The design of the micro-curve not only makes the grip feel better, does not appear to be wide and thick, but also more suitable for the palm of the hand, which is not small for the improvement of daily use experience.
In addition to the design of the screen micro-curve, its screen quality is also very good. Honor Magic V's outer screen supports a 120Hz refresh rate, which is better in daily use such as web browsing, gaming, etc., and the system experience is also very smooth. The maximum brightness of the external screen is 1000nit, the peak is up to 1200nit, and when the outdoor sunlight is strong, the screen display is still very clear, which also greatly improves the practicality of the external screen. It is a pity that although the external screen supports a 120Hz refresh rate, it does not support LTPO on the hardware, which plays a relatively small role in increasing battery life.
When I use it in my daily life, I will choose to use the external screen more time. Especially when going out on the road is not convenient for two hands to operate, a good quality of the external screen to bring me the experience will be better, the operation of this external screen will be closer to a normal form of mobile phone experience. And the screen ratio of the outer screen is very high, and the operable area in the one-handed use state is very large. The transition between the outer screen and the curved surface on the back also takes care of the feel, and the only weight left is to remind you that this is a folding screen mobile phone, but the weight of this part can only be solved by reducing the size from the existing technical level, but the sacrifice is also the reduction of the mobile phone screen.
During the time of using the external screen, it can already meet my needs for a normal form of mobile phone. But for a folding screen phone, it is even better. Expand the Honor Magic V, which has a 7.9-inch screen. Its inner screen ruler aspect ratio is 10.3:9, closer to a square screen, the resolution also reaches 2272x1984, the pixel density is 381ppi, the display effect is still very delicate. When watching videos, compared with the 6.7-inch iPhone 13 Pro Max, you will get a larger screen experience when watching videos, and the viewing effect has been greatly improved, which is also the advantage of folding screen mobile phones.
Different from the external screen, the inner screen supports a maximum 90Hz refresh rate, although the refresh rate is not as good as the external screen's 120Hz, but the use experience is also very smooth. The global maximum brightness and peak maximum brightness of the inner screen are 800nit and 1000nit respectively, and the inner screen also has a magnetron nano optical film, which achieves ultra-low screen reflectiveness. The lower screen reflectance brings a clearer display effect, which also makes the Honor Magic V a better experience in the sun, and the screen display is also very clear, and there is no situation where the display content is not clear. On the crease problem, the crease of the Honor Magic V is compared to several others, only from a specific point of view will have a slight crease, at present, it is firmly in the first echelon, as to whether it can be maintained in this state after a long time of use, we can not give an answer at present.
Folding screen mobile phones folded left and right have a common advantage, that is, users can switch between the phone and the tablet at any time, and the use of the scene will be more abundant.
Split-screen experience, more practical
This time, the Glory Magic V appeared equipped with Magic UI 6, which unsurprisingly added more updates to the scene-based experience, which is also the consistent direction of Magic UI. Os Turbo X technology is also used for Magic V Honor to improve system fluency, system aging resistance and system power consumption. But for a folding screen device, the operation experience of large-screen UI interaction is the top priority for us.
The most prominent experience can be said to be the parallel horizon progressive display of the single application of Honor Magic V, as well as multi-application, multi-task multi-window, suspension window and smart split screen and other operations, so that the large screen of the folding screen mobile phone can play the greatest advantage as much as possible.
First of all, the enlargement of the folding screen screen should not be just a simple enlargement of the mobile phone interface, but more of the best large-screen experience brought to the user after the manufacturer's research and investigation. When Honor is displayed on the large screen, Honor Magic V can display different levels of content at the same time, and users can no longer repeat the operation of entering and returning, saving the operation steps and optimizing the use experience. The most obvious example is the major e-commerce platform apps, users can easily select the desired products on the left side of the screen, and browse directly under the right screen.
Honor in the display of information the app into three categories, the content layout is more suitable for displaying a large number of information, such as browsing reading, news software, through the optimization of the display method, so that the amount of information increased, but also will not make the entire screen very messy. The second type is the list-detail type, such as the system menu and other software that needs to display the parent-child relationship in columns, which can improve the display and operation efficiency, and no longer need to repeat the two operations. The third is a simple independent task, some independent tasks that are not suitable for large-screen display, Honor Magic V will use a more concise style to make it easier for users to view and operate.
In addition to the large screen can bring users a better audio and video experience, another greater improvement is multi-tasking processing. The experience of split screen on ordinary mobile phones can be said to be difficult to satisfy, and the physical factors of screen size are in front of us. The Honor Magic V solves this pain point very well, and the application scenarios of the left and right split screens are also more abundant. For example, multi-platform price comparison, WeChat chat while playing videos, foreign language documents and translation software, etc. When the straight screen needs to be switched back and forth, the Honor Magic V can solve all the problems in one step, which is also the advantage of the folding screen device.
The optimization of the split-screen experience is currently a direction of horizontal folding equipment, in these few days of contact, Honor Magic V in addition to the split-screen experience itself is good enough, in the entry into the split-screen mode, switch mode when the operation is also more intuitive, reducing the user's learning costs, which is also one of the parts that make me feel very friendly when I first started magic V. My most daily use is the split screen to use the calculator, in the past small screen devices, the operation of the split screen is bound to obscure and squeeze part of the content display, and the folding screen split screen can be more intuitive operation, in the experience and perception are very good.
Flagship camera
Coming to the back of the phone, honor Magic V uses an imaging system composed of three lenses, the sensor size of the wide-angle main camera is 1/1.5 inch, the equivalent focal length is 23mm, the aperture is f1.9; the sensor size of the ultra-wide-angle lens is 1/2.5 inches, the equivalent focal length is 13mm, the aperture is f2.2; the last lens is a spectrum-enhanced camera, its sensor size is 1/2.5 inch, equivalent to 20mm, f2.0 aperture. All three cameras have 50 megapixel pixels, so let's start with a set of samples.
2x digital zoom
wide-angle lens
Ultra-wide angle lens
In the image part, the overall performance of honor Magic V is decent, whether it is the main camera or the ultra-wide angle lens, the effect has reached the level of the current flagship model, and the picture impact brought by light in some specific scenes has done a good post-control, whether it is the exposure control of the entire picture or the detail smearing in the low light has been well corrected. To be fair, the Honor Magic V is not an image flagship that focuses on photography capabilities, but in addition to the telephoto lens that major manufacturers have collectively "skipped class" this year, its overall image level has not dragged down the performance of the whole machine at all.
Uncastrated long endurance and fast charging
As for the battery life that everyone cares about, the Honor Magic V is equipped with a large-capacity battery of 4750mAh and a 66W wired super fast charge. Due to the space limitation of the folding screen mobile phone, it is not an easy task to meet the large battery and super fast charging at the same time in the ultra-thin folding space. The Honor Magic V adopts the structure design of asymmetric dual batteries to meet the needs of users for long endurance and fast charging. At the same time, in terms of grip, the mobile phone does not have a top-heavy feeling, and the overall grip is still very balanced. Geek's Choice tested to fill the phone takes a total of 46 minutes, of course, since we still have an engineering machine, there may be some differences from the commercially available version.
More mature folding screen phones
In 2019, the mobile phone industry ushered in the outbreak of folding screens, and the new manufacturers in 2020 are not many, which is a relatively flat year, and from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022, we have seen more manufacturers launching folding devices. They all share the same characteristics – a higher degree of completion and a better folding mechanism experience. The advantage of Honor Magic V is that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 was placed in the folding screen device for the first time. Although launched late, the Honor Magic V has formed a misalignment competition whether compared with the folding screen device or the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 model, which is not only a smart point of Honor, but also a part that requires manufacturers to pay more efforts behind it.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 makes it remain competitive for a long time, the price starts at 9999 yuan, and the RAM corresponds to 12GB, which makes the Honor Magic V not lose in terms of cost performance, coupled with the Spring Festival this wave of consumption, if the chip supply and production capacity are sufficient, I believe that Glory can get a very good "start" in 2022.
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