However, they\u2019re not alone. One of the recent arrivals to Australia, Honor, is ready with another foldable variety, as the 2025 V5 is upgraded to a 2026 V6<\/a>, and we\u2019re not talking about engines.<\/p>\n The Honor Magic V6 aims to bring durable design to a thin and light foldable that screams premium, all while trying to find a use for AI in a phone. Is it a success?<\/p>\n All reviews at Pickr are subject to experienced testing methodologies. Find out why you can trust us<\/a> and change the way you choose. Built from a combination of metal and glass, with a little bit of plastic on the back depending on the variation of the Magic V6 you go for, Honor\u2019s latest foldable is definitely built for the premium price tag is comes with.<\/p>\n The hinge sees steel in its structure, while the frame appears to be aluminium encasing glass on the screen and some plastic on the rear.<\/p>\n If you opt for the white version, you\u2019ll actually find the slimmest variation and no obvious plastic, cover 4mm unfolded and an iPhone 17 Pro Max-matching 8.75mm<\/a>, while the black and red variations are marginally bigger at 4.1mm unfolded and 9mm folded.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also a difference in weight, with 219 grams for that slightly slimmer style in white, and 224 grams for either the black or the red. For the purposes of this review, we\u2019re looking at the Honor Magic V6 in red.<\/p>\n Features<\/p>\n Whichever model you find your way to, the hardware is the same regardless.<\/p>\n Qualcomm\u2019s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 appears under the hood, the same piece of hardware in the Leica Leitzphone, inside the clear competition that is the Oppo Find N6<\/a>, and a variation of in the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra minus whatever tweaks Samsung does to its version<\/a>.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a chip matched with 16GB RAM and 512GB storage, the only configuration of the phone, and working with Android 16 and Honor\u2019s overlay to it all, MagicOS 10.<\/p>\n The back sees three cameras, covering a 50 megapixel wide F1.6 camera, a 50 megapixel ultra-wide F2.2 camera, and a 64 megapixel 3X F2.5 telephoto, with only the wide and telephoto cameras supporting optical image stabilisation, should you need it. They will all support 4K video, but there are also two front cameras, both of which capture 20 megapixels at F2.2 and handle 4K video, as well.<\/p>\n And then there are the connections, which sees a single wired data port via the USB-C port that\u2019s almost the same thickness as the phone unfolded, while wireless is covered using 802.11a\/b\/g\/n\/ac\/ax\/be WiFi 7, Bluetooth 6, 4G and 5G, Near-Field Communication (NFC for Google Pay), GPS with GLONASS, and an infrared sensor if you want to turn that phone into a remote control for your TV or air conditioner.<\/p>\n The Honor Magic V6 also includes a 6660mAh battery with 80W wired fast charging and 66W wireless charging, but no official Qi2 support, it seems. The circular ring of magnets don\u2019t seem to be a part of this design.<\/p>\n An IP68\/69 water and dust resistance rating<\/a> is, however, as is a fingerprint sensor, which is included under the power button on the right edge, just below the volume rocker.<\/p>\n Displays<\/p>\n Like other foldable tablet hybrid variations, you\u2019ll find two screens on the Magic V6, covering a 6.52 inch cover screen OLED running a resolution of 2402\u00d71080, while the inside sees a foldable OLED of 2352\u00d72172, making it an almost square display sized to 7.95 inches.<\/p>\n Essentially, the Honor Magic V6 offers a big phone experience with a nearly 8 inch tablet on the inside, albeit one without stylus support. It\u2019s just your finger here, folks, like it is on the Google\u2019s Pixel 10 Pro Fold<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both screens feature a layer of anti-scratch, and they\u2019re both easy on the eyes, with the inside screen looking particularly snazzy. It\u2019s not quite as flat and crease-less as the Oppo Find N6, but it\u2019s also not far off the mark.<\/p>\n You\u2019d struggle to complain about the screens Honor is giving, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n In-use<\/p>\n Grab the phone, switch it on, and one of two security features will let you in: either the front-facing camera on the outside or inside will scan your visage and take you in, or alternatively the fingerprint sensor hidden under the power button. They\u2019re both speedy, and happen largely without thinking.<\/p>\n Once you\u2019re in, MagicOS gives you a flavour of something similar to Google\u2019s stock interpretation of Android, but with a few tweaks here and there. <\/p>\n There are tweaks to the style and card design of how widgets and shortcuts fit on the screen, AI app suggestions not out of kilter with what Apple does on iOS, and a quick layout feature to let you quickly set up split-screen app support.<\/p>\n AI features<\/p>\n Much like other devices released today, AI plays a part in what you get. Unlike other devices, however, Honor does seem like it is making a genuine attempt to find a way to make AI useful in a phone.<\/p>\n All of the features are optional, and arguably some don\u2019t work as well as they should. But the attempt is there, and it is interesting.<\/p>\n There are text edits and a security agent, the latter of which is built to help you make changes to the phone\u2019s settings, but doesn\u2019t have a lot of power. Ultimately, it feels like a gutless agent where you\u2019d be faster working it out for yourself, finding quickly it doesn\u2019t have a lot of features beyond the suggestions it makes.<\/p>\n You can also use an AI memories app to record moments, an app that feels as if Honor has taken a page out of Nothing\u2019s AI Essential Space playbook<\/a>, or pull up an AI-connected app sidebar (the \u201cmagic sidebar\u201d) which can use AI to work out app shortcuts based on what you\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n We found it doesn\u2019t always come up when you try to bring it in, so it may not be that useful. Even the power button can become an AI button of sorts, triggering these apps with a double click.<\/p>\n Most of the AI you\u2019ll likely embrace comes from image edits, which will let you straighten a photo, automatically wipe people from scenes by cloning sections, change colour, styles, and upscale. It\u2019s very much Honor\u2019s take on Google\u2019s Photos edits, only it some how feels like it\u2019s been made a little easier at times on Honor\u2019s end.<\/p>\n There\u2019s also AI for subtitles, language translation, subtitles, and deepfake and voice cloning detection. There is a lot of AI functionality thrown into the Honor Magic V6 foldable.<\/p>\n If anything, it seems as though Honor has tried the \u201clet\u2019s make AI do as much as possible and let people decide\u201d approach to AI, which is not terrible, even if it becomes another set of features you don\u2019t necessarily care about.<\/p>\n Device integration<\/p>\n However, Honor does have some features you might care about. It\u2019s not just going for a little bit of AI to impress. Rather, it\u2019s also going for Mac-like integration, meaning if you have a MacBook or something like it, or even an iPad, the foldable maker wants to make it easy for you to join the dots.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a change from the usual approach where Android and Mac doesn\u2019t always play nicely. If you have one of each and you want the two to talk, you often need to have a degree in knowing what it is you should be doing,<\/p>\n Here on the Magic V6, Honor actually has a piece of software that can theoretically play nicely with the phone. Simply known as Honor WorkStation, it\u2019s a small app to let you quickly send and receive files on your computer from the foldable phone, and supports iPad, as well, with options for a second screen.<\/p>\n If you ever wanted to know how a foldable could work beyond simply being a slightly bigger phone screen, turning it into an optional extra screen is sure handy.<\/p>\n You can also easily send photos from one device to the other, a feature we suspect Honor has Qualcomm to thank, but works well with the computer software, too. It certainly makes for an easier integration than constantly uploading anything you want to Google Drive as a bit of a middle ground. A painful middle ground.<\/p>\n Having the software on-hand helps a lot, and is an interesting feature set we\u2019ve not actually seen from most rivals.<\/p>\n Performance<\/p>\n Armed with the same chip as what we\u2019ve seen in the Oppo Find N6 and Samsung S26 Ultra, the Honor Magic V6 should be as fast as the competition. It should really be as fast as every other Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip.<\/p>\n The problem is it\u2019s not. Benchmarks actually place the Magic V6 behind the competition using the same processor, and that\u2019s kind of crazy.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tDevice Honor Magic V6<\/p>\n Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/p>\n Leica Leitzphone<\/p>\n Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/p>\n Oppo Find N6<\/p>\n Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/p>\n Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra<\/p>\n Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/p>\n It\u2019s the same chip, but the speed isn\u2019t the same at all. Everything is far lower, and we\u2019ve asked why.<\/p>\n By the time this review went live, Honor hadn\u2019t provided an answer, but the guess is that Honor has under-clocked the hardware intentionally. As to why, it might be possibly to inch a little battery life out of it, though the overall result is the phone is definitely slower, something we checked three times just to be sure.<\/p>\n Perhaps the good news from this test is that Honor\u2019s Magic V6 doesn\u2019t feel slower , or not significantly, anyway. While it is technically slower, you at least won\u2019t feel like it\u2019s getting you down. The Magic V6 just isn\u2019t as fast.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t mean the Magic V6 is a slouch, clearly applying pressure to older phones from the past year or two, even if it doesn\u2019t have the chops to take on this year\u2019s competition quite as clearly.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tDevice Google Pixel 10 Pro XL<\/p>\n Google Tensor G5<\/p>\n Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra<\/p>\n Snapdragon 8 Gen 3<\/p>\n Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7<\/p>\n Snapdragon 8 Elite<\/p>\n Honor Magic V6<\/p>\n Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5<\/p>\n Oppo Find X8 Pro<\/p>\n MediaTek Dimensity 9400<\/p>\n Over on the mobile side of things, there aren\u2019t any obvious issues like there are with the chip performance. Mobile capability is pretty clear, seeing speeds as high as 466Mbps when we ran tests, using the extent of the Telstra 5G network by way of Belong.<\/p>\n Sufficed to say, at least the mobile side of things delivers the speed you crave, even if the main processor seems to struggle in comparison to other phones out there.<\/p>\n Camera<\/p>\n Flip the phone to the back and you\u2019ll find three cameras covering three specific focal ranges: a wide 50 megapixel at F1.6, an ultra-wide 50 megapixel at F2.2, and a 3X telephoto 64 megapixel camera at F2.5. It\u2019s a fairly decent assortment of megapixels and length, not that either tells you the whole story.<\/p>\n However, you can see judging by the back of the camera that AI will play a part, because this is an \u201cAI camera\u201d without any extra help from heritage camera brands. While Oppo uses Hasselblad<\/a> and Xiaomi uses Leica<\/a>, and we\u2019ve seen Zeiss pop up on other brands, Honor is keeping things in-house with zero extra branding and solely some AI.<\/p>\n So what does it do? Possibly not as much as you might think.<\/p>\n For regular captures, images are clear in daylight, offering decent colours, though the clarity does feel at times it could be better. It\u2019s a similar vibe when the lights lower, giving you a solid sense of colours from the scene, but not always nailing the sharpness from what you capture. <\/p>\n Edges don\u2019t always seem as sharp as they should be, and can feel like the camera is doing some extra AI trickery possibly to get there.<\/p>\n One area that can surprise is moon photography, with the ability to lower the brightness on the camera and snag a moon shot. It\u2019s a nice feature, though one that might also highlight the AI involved, as the moon becomes unnecessarily sharpened at times.<\/p>\n Overall, it\u2019s a nice camera, though not necessarily an amazing camera. That said, Honor has attempted to make the camera more interesting, using an AI-connected film-like mode to let you change the colour filtration applied to the images.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not quite like the film approaches used in the Leica Leitzphone<\/a>, but does appear an attempt to give you some of what competitors offer, and can feel a little like a nod to the approaches that came out of Huawei and Leica back in the day, given Honor did used to be owned by Huawei long ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n Battery<\/p>\n Battery life is one area Honor has absolutely nailed, and an area foldable phones often struggle in.<\/p>\n Running with as our regular daily driver, we experienced a good day and a half to two days was possible from the phone, provided you used the handset with around 5 to 6 hours of screen time alongside your regular activities.<\/p>\n That being said, our Battery Bench rundown<\/a> also showed the Magic V6 had the chops to keep going if all you did was watch the screen for hours on end. In that test, the phone delivered over a day straight of just on-screen activity, outpacing pretty much every foldable we have seen prior.<\/p>\n Granted, that test was performed with the external 6.52 inch screen, and we suspect pitting it against the internal 7.95 inch display would probably give you much less. But sufficed to say, the result from the battery in this phone was stellar.<\/p>\n Between the 6660mAh silicon carbon battery and what we assume is an under-clocked CPU, Honor is getting more battery out of the phone than you\u2019d otherwise expect.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tDevice \t\t\t\t\t\t\tHonor Magic V6<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tOppo Find N6<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tGoogle Pixel 10 Pro Fold (cover screen)<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 (cover screen)<\/p>\n Value<\/p>\n The price even manage to feel a little more compelling than other foldables in its class, thanks in part to a sub-$3K price point. Granted, a whole dollar isn\u2019t much under three thousand, but when foldable phones typically start north of that price, especially with 512GB storage, you can see that Honor is really trying to prove it has the strength to take on the competition.<\/p>\n In terms of sheer value, foldables don\u2019t play that card easily, largely because anything approaching $3000 is difficult to account for. You are getting a phone and a tablet in the one device, with still fairly new foldable screen technology thrown in. This sort of tech commands a higher price as it is, and that\u2019s difficult to argue against.<\/p>\n While the value is technically sound, we\u2019d suggest that the omission of stylus support should make the Magic V6 cost a little less, but it\u2019s a minor point.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/honor-magic-v6-review-2026-07-jpg.webp\")
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