Honor Magic 5 hands-on experience: large capacity battery + thin and light body, make a qualified standard model

With the opening of MWC 2023, Honor's high-end flagship Honor Magic series has also arrived. Unlike other domestic manufacturers, the Honor Magic4 series released in the first half of last year did not usher in iteration in the second half of the year, which also made everyone look forward to the Honor Magic5 a little more.

After a year, what different use feelings has the Honor Magic5 series bred? Taking advantage of the overseas release, we will take you to experience it with Honor Magic5.

The Honor Magic5 continues the "Eye of the Muse" design language since the Honor Magic3 in terms of exterior design, but at the same time, there are some changes in details compared to the previous generation. For example, on the rear camera module, the black hole is used as inspiration, and the three lenses are arranged in triangles, giving people a calm and orderly feeling.

The three lenses and the edges of the lens module are embellished with shiny rings, making the entire module look more layered. The lens module still retains the fine tradition of pure flat without bulges, and looks more concise. The three lenses are a 54-megapixel wide-angle main camera, a 50-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, and a 32-megapixel telephoto lens.

While improving the optical quality, Honor Magic5 also further optimizes the algorithm and innovative experience, supplemented by the combination of large bottom sensor + large aperture, further improving the sensitivity ability, so that the night scene picture has more details, and the overall picture is cleaner, and the highlight part is also well controlled.

At the same time, it also adds features such as the Eagle Eye camera that captures faster and more accurately, and the new AI Portrait Engine 2.0 to enrich the photo experience. In the future, we will also bring you a detailed review of this part.

Talking back to the fuselage, Honor Magic5 upgraded the back cover process this time, using a one-piece curved design, the back cover to the lens module transitioned by a smooth curve, there is a natural convex feeling, but the outer edge of the lens module retains a hard straight edge, so it gives people a soft and rigid feeling, while not losing the sense of design, but also strengthening its image genes.

The glory we got this time Magic5 is a "Blanc Blue" color matching, which is in line with the color matching trend of the mobile phone circle in the past two years and is very attractive. In addition, there are five colors to choose from: tundra green, coral purple, burnt orange, and gloss black.

The front design is very interesting, this time the Honor Magic5 series adopts a "floating streamlined four-curved screen" design. The upper and lower left and right borders of the screen have a slight curved surface, and there is a perfect transition at the corners, and there is no green edge color cast. The screen is almost equal width on all four sides, and the look and feel is full.

This design makes the screen look rounded, I don't know if it is a tribute to the original glory Magic? The operation feel has also become silkier, and the sliding touch at the edge of the screen is very smooth.

The screen size is 6.73 inches, has a resolution of 1224*2688, supports 1.07 billion color display and DCI-P3 wide color gamut, color accuracy ΔE ≈ 0.27, and has a dynamic refresh rate of 120Hz. In terms of brightness, it can also be remarkable, with a global maximum of 1200nit and a peak brightness of 1600nit, which can clearly restore the display content and color outdoors.

In addition, Honor's screen eye protection technology has also been more deeply applied in the Honor Magic5 series. The screen supports 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming with lower strobe flicker, which is more eye-friendly in low-light environments. At the same time, the "sleep aid display" function has been added to reduce the interference of eyes and sleep when using the mobile phone at night. At the same time, it is also equipped with the "natural light eye protection" function to reduce eye fatigue, and supports the spectral low blue light eye protection ability, and has passed the hardware-level TÜV Rheinland low blue light certification.

The overall feel of the Honor Magic5 is relatively thin, the body is 7.8mm thick, the glass back cover version weighs 191g, and the plain skin version is 187g, which is not heavy in similar products, and also has a built-in 5100mAh large-capacity battery with a longer battery life, and it is also the only flagship machine on the market with a thickness of less than 8mm and a battery capacity of more than 5000mAh. The fast charging power is 66W, which is enough to cope with this capacity.

In terms of performance, the Honor Magic5 adopts Qualcomm's second-generation Snapdragon 8 mobile platform to keep up with the large army of Android flagships. In the game experience, two technologies, super scheduling and super frame rate, are also added to improve the experience of the game.

At the same time, the MagicOS 7.1 system equipped with it also adds a number of smart functions, such as intelligent code recognition, large angle code recognition and other functions. In subsequent reviews, we will also bring you a more in-depth experience.

In general, although the Honor Magic5 is the basic model in the series, it has not been reduced in appearance design and sense of quality, whether it is the addition of the "suspended streamlined four-curved screen" to the appearance value, or the balance of 5100mAh large battery and thin and light body, as well as the upgraded performance and image capabilities, it is very in line with the mainstream needs of current users when changing phones, and it is also the most cost-effective product in the Honor Magic5 series.