Honor Magic V3 - How Is It This Cheap!?

[Music] the Honer magic V3 is not only the  thinnest and lightest phone on the market   but it also packs plenty of impressive specs like  the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 a 5,150 mAh battery with   66 W supercharge we got a super bright display  with 5,000 nits of peak brightness and it's just   launched with an unbelievable launch offer so hit  subscribe now and we'll check out what this thing   can do so the Honor Magic V3 actually launched  yesterday and I've been using this phone for a   few weeks now but I wanted to hold off on this  video until we had the confirmed pricing as I've   reviewed phones on estimated pricing before and  they then turned out to be wildly different but   this time we've not only got a great value launch  price but it also includes free gifts like the   bang and Orson HX headphones which are valued at  £549 but from the minute you pick up the magic   V3 you notice how light this phone is coming  in at just 226 G and its extra slim design is   also very apparent with a thicknessof just 9.2  mm which is very close to a standard phone now   and I have to say it feels like just holding a  normal phone and not a folding phone which does   make it much easier and more comfy to hold when  it's unfolded it's now only 4.35 mm thick and   the one thing I would say is that the first time  picking it up I was a little bit worried about   its durability given that it feels so light  and it's also very thin but honor are using   a new special fiber for the body material and is  reportedly stronger than Kevlar and carbon fiber   with a strength of 5,800 megap pascals and of  course I can't test this because I just don't   have the equipment to test it but I did drop it  by accident and thankfully there's not a single   mark on it now the external display gets a big  upgrade to 5,000 nits of peak brightness and   this is very apparent when you're out in the sun  and it makes it much easier to use on a hot sunny   day now it's a 6.43 in 120 HZ ltpo OLED display  it's got a resolution of 2376 X 1060 and the glass   is protected by Honor's nanoc Crystal shield  now again I'm not going to scratch the display   and test it but hopefully Jerry rig everything  gets his hands on one so we can see how that   protection performs now it's also a nice size with  the external display and it's not as narrow as its   competitors like the zold 6 it's got a 21 by9  aspect ratio and its width just makes it much   more comfortable to use as a normal phone which I  find myself using this display a lot now opening   it up we reveal the 7.92 in foldable 120 HZ OLED  display now this one's got a peak brightness of   1,600 nits it's also got a resolution of 2344 by  2156 and this one's protected by Honor's super   armored inner screen but again it's not something  that I can test the durability of now that being   said there's no marks on the screen from my 3  weeks of view so far and the crease in the center   of the display is also pretty good now even with  light colors on the display you can't see it when   you're looking at directly head-on and it's only  if you're viewing at an angle that you'll see it   and honor have also tested the new super steel  hinge to 500,000 folds and this is typical usage   for 13 years now both displays are great to use  they're fast and responsive as you'd expect from   a modern smartphone and it's also easy on the  eye with 3,840 HZ pwm dimming for the internal   display and then 4,320 HZ for the external cover  display but personally I don't suffer with any IE   strain so I can't comment on how useful that is  now over on the back we've so got a nice simple   design but with a bold camera module at the top  it protrudes out the back of the rear panel and   it's an octagonal shape and I have to say I quite  like the simplistic and Sleek design now inside   the camera module we've got a triple camera setup  which consists of a 50 megap primary camera with   SMA stabilization we got a 50 megap Periscope  with 3.5 time zoom and Optical stabilization and   we've then got a 40 megap ultrawide with Optical  stabilization now for the selfie cameras both The   Intern and the cover display have a punch hole  cutout with the same 20 megap sensor in each but   we'll get into the camera sample shortly now for  those of you wanting to protect the honor magic V3   it also comes with a protective case with bumpers  to also protect the display and it's even got a   built-in stand for those of you that are going to  be watching medor on it now as I said the phone is   powered by the Snapdragon H gen3 and it comes with  12 GB of RAM and 512 gig of storage so as you'd   expect everything is fast smooth and snappy and it  can pretty Prett much handle anything you throw at   it now for those of you concerned about synthetic  benchmarks I run it through geekbench 6 where it   scores 2,240 for single core and then 5,45 for  multicore so the single core score is good and   it's just a little bit behind on the multicore  performance when you compare it to things like   the fold 6 or the s24 ultra is they score around  6,825 for multicore and I'm assuming the reason   for this is differences in Cooling and they also  use the overclock version of The Snap Dragon 8   gen 3 and that runs at the full CPU cluster at  3.4 GHz instead of 3.3 and it also runs the GPU   at a higher clock speed as well now of course  the multicore performance is only going to help   with processing tasks like rendering Etc so for  the day-to-day users you're going to experience   the same performance when it comes to gaming the  magic V3 is going to handle anything you throw at   it exactly as you'd expect now I spent some time  at playing Call of Duty mobile and asphalt on the   magic V3 and both of them played flawlessly there  were never any pauses or stuttering and I was able   to enjoy high quality at high refresh rates and  the great thing about the magic V3 is you can   play with the external display for a more compact  experience or you can open it up and play with the   internal display which just makes things much more  fun and easier to see and I found games like war   zone much easier on this larger display although  it's very hard to game while filming the phone now   we also ran the magic V3 through 3D Marks Wildlife  extreme Benchmark and it got an overall score of   4,69 2 with an average frame rate of 28.1 frames  a second now next up we got the camera performance   when it comes to foldable phones they don't ever  get the same level cameras as the latest flagships   and I assume that's down to internal space but we  do however get a good camera system on the magic   V3 and in my testing I've been very happy with the  photo and the video performance from the cameras   so if we start with the photos on the primary  camera you can see we get great photos and these   are all just point and click without any manual  adjustments we've got nice lighting and colors   and my only comment with the photos across all of  the cameras is that they are a little bit heavy   on the contrast but that always seems to be the  case with honor but it does make them very Punchy   photos and judging by my previous camera test  that seems to be what people want these days but   across all of the photos we got plenty of detail  in both the highlights as well as the shadows and   it wasn't the sunniest of days but as you can see  there's not really any clipping in the skies and   we still retain plenty of detail in the shadow now  the ultra white camera also does a great job and   it delivers the same good results and if we run  through similar shots with the ultrawide camera   you can see great detail and nice colors and again  it's just a little bit heavy on the contrast when   taking photos there's also an option for a  two-time zoom which delivers these photos here   but honestly I would actually avoid using it now  I'm assuming it's cropping from the main sensor   to get the two time zoom but it lacks sharpness  in detail in comparison and I would suggest that   you just stick with the one times lens and zoom  in in post or if you need more more zoom bump it   up to the 3 and 1/2 times Optical so you can see  here that unlike the two times Zoom the Periscope   camera with the 3.5x zoom delivers a nice amount  of detail in the highlights and the Shadows we've   got nice Sharp Images and overall they're just  great photos but again they're just a little   bit heavy on the contrast for my personal liking  now there's also a feature to automatically Snap   photos when there's some movement or action and  I tested this here and of course it does work   it's just not something that I'm personally going  to be using and when it come to the video we also   get great quality video from all of the cameras  and we of course get 4k at 60 frames a second but   I've been filming and switching between the  cameras while filming and all of them have   worked well we also get some good performance  from the microphone so we'll just check out the   video samples now so this is the rear camera  4K 60 frames a second just do some panning around that's what it's going to look like and  the great thing about the rear camera is you can   switch between the lenses while you're  filming so we've got 0.7 shot if I just pan around got one which we already on  we got the two times we just power   around again and while we're looking  into the distance I switch to the four times then of course you can manually  zoom in more so 10 times as Max Zoom   and that's quality we're going to get a 10  time and trying to hold it steady we switch   back to one then we'll just do a stabilization  test I put my bag on properly and just run forward so that's what you could  expect from the stabilization just   have a second look at the video from  the rear camera and there some big   open space so we can have a look at the  zoom so that's one times that's two time zoom swivel around we'll focus on this  building here so that's at four time   zoom to try to hold it steady and then if  you do end up moving there's some movement   then we'll go to the maximum 10 times  we just pinch and zoom expose on that better and that's 10 times Zoom of course course  there's extra modes here as well and the video is   just going to be too long if I go through every  single video mode but I did test out some slow   motion at 240 frames a second now when it comes  to the selfie camera again we get good photos   and to be honest it's pretty much what I expected  for both the internal and the external display is   they both use a 20 megapixel selfie camera but as  you can see here we get good results now when it   comes to video you are however restricted to 30  frames a second if you're filming in 4k but you   can get 60 frames a second if you drop down the  resolution at to 1080p but we'll just take a look   at the video samples from the selfie camera now  so this is the video from the selfie camera on the   external display now it's a 20 megapixel camera  with an aperture of f2.2 it's currently in 4k 30   frames a second and on the zoom it's at 0.8 times  so you can change that from one 0.8 one so it's   good that you can do that while you're filming  as well with is quite low today but as you can   see there's a little bit of a busy Road next to me  so we'll see how that comes out if we just do some panning P around and then I'll just  do a little jog so we can test the stabilization and that's the quality you can  expect from the selfie camera and when it comes to   the software side we're running magic OS 8.0.1 and  as with many other phones out there it's getting   plenty of AI features to improve your day-to-day  life and just make things easier but to be honest   there's not really anything new so we've got the  magic portal which debuted on the magic 6 Pro and   it allows you to take text or images and drag them  into other applications so for instance you might   want to save it as a note put it straight into  Gmail to send it to someone or if someone sent   you an address you can drag it straight into  maps and navigate there now for images we can   also drag them into notes Gmail and even search  for things on E eBay using the images and now it   does support a lot more apps than it did when it  was initially released but overall it's a good   feature and I'm sure this is something that honor  are going to continue to build on with future   updates now we've also got AI features thanks to  Google Cloud so that's things like magic eraser   which I'm sure most of you have seen by now and  you just highlight what you want to remove from   a photo and it's going to use generative AI to  fill it we've also got improvements to honors   notes with things like voice to text as well as  live translation live translation worked well   in my short testing and you can look at one side  of the screen each to actually get it translated   but I would have thought a much better idea would  be to utilize the internal display for one of the   translations and have it translate to the external  display for the person you're speaking to to read   so hopefully that's something that honor could  Implement in the future now General use of the   OS is good though and it's what you'd expect from  an Android phone magic OS is continually improving   and I like the default layout with all of my apps  crammed into the main page if you don't like that   and you want it a bit more simplistic you can of  course customize it now there's a little bit of   what you call bloatware with pre-installed apps  like AliExpress and booking.com but thankfully   you can just uninstall the ones that you don't  want now for those of you that haven't used magic   OS you also get plenty of customization in the  settings menu and you've got things like your   home screen lock screen font icons and you can  even change it the always on display and there's   also a special theme section that's going to help  you quickly change everything you've of course   got all the usual settings to change from we now  also get on his magic capsule and this is pretty   much the same as a dynamic Island really and it  makes use of the punch hole at the top Center and   it gives you more information from apps lets you  select things within those apps without actually   opening the apps and it's especially useful  for things like your alarm clock so you can   just snooze or cancel straight away honor have  also promised 4 years of OS updates along with   5 years of security updates and this is going to  help with the longevity of the phone while it's   not quite the 7 years of OS update that Samsung  offers it's a good offering and they're on the   right track now powering this all is a 5,150 mAh  battery which supports 66 W fast charging when   using wired and then 50 W when using wireless  charging and in terms of connectivity we've got   Bluetooth 5.3 Wi-Fi 7 and NFC now we've placed  a link to the magic V3 down in the description   below so you can go ahead and check it out now and  if you use the discount code av3 eb3000 is just   £ 1,399 and it also comes with plenty of free  gifts including onor Magic Pen which works on   both displays we get the 66 W supercharger and  then as I said at the start you also get bangan   ulson HX headphones and these are valued at 549  and if that wasn't enough you get 6 months of   screen protection for both the external and the  internal display and all of that for £ 1,399 it   just makes this a no-brainer if you need a folding  phone now when you compare compare it to something   like the zold 6 there are pros and cons but it  beats it in so many areas like external display   brightness and overall form factor and it's  just crazy how thin and light the phone is now   with its full price of 1,799 it becomes a much  tougher decision which I'd be leaving down to   you guys to decide but for such a low launch  price on top of all of those free gifts it's   worth acting quickly it's a great folding phone  that's not only broken records in terms of its   size weight and dimensions but it also performs  well with good photography to match now when it   comes to the unboxing if we open it up we first  get the magic V3 with its protective film around   it we've then got the Sim removal tool along with  a protective case for the phone which slides onto   the back and we've also got a bumper to protect  the front next up we got the 66 W supercharger   and then finally we've got the USBC cable now  hopefully I've covered everything in today's   video but of course if there's anything I've  missed or you've got any questions at all then   just ask them in the comments and I'll get back  to you as soon as I can but thanks for watching   the video and don't forget to subscribe to  stay up toate with the latest tech [Music] [Music]