Unprecedented design, revolutionary display and top performance to offer a unique user experience: the business card with which Honor has made its first folding smartphone official in recent days, is a sort of refrain already heard. Samsung and Huawei have opened the foldable market for years (also tripping over understandable errors), Xiaomi and Oppo have followed the path and many clues suggest that the race for ads is far from over. With other tech companies (Chinese in the lead) to claim a place on the pitch.
The difference is in the screen
Finding a formula to stand out from the other leaflets already on the market appears to be a challenge with which it is “imperative” to measure oneself in order to make the big voice in a sector that has been looking for a long time in search of the new killer application. With Magic V, which will soon be available in China, the former Huawei subsidiary tries to certify decidedly important ambitions (“we want to become the best performing brand in the foldable premium market”, declared the CEO of the Shenzen company, George Zhao, during presentation) with a product that does not want to be outdone by those of the competition. Let’s try to summarize its main features below, obviously starting from the screen. The curved display with OLED technology develops a 6.45-inch diagonal when the smartphone is folded like a book and promises a wider screen-to-body ratio than the 21.3: 9 aspect ratio: in other words it is as if you were holding one traditional smartphone, without forcing in length and width. Once opened, the device transforms into a tablet with a usable surface of 7.9 inches without creases. The promise that Honor makes to potential users of its foldable? Extremely wide color gamut (up to 1.07 billion colors), screen refresh rate up to 120Hz and (absolute first for a foldable) Imax Enhanced certification. All seasoned with multitasking functionality and a system that divides the screen into multiple windows to be able to view more content simultaneously, also taking advantage of the personalization indications suggested by the artificial intelligence engine.
Quality materials and top-of-the-range performance
The symmetrical and slim body of the Magic V is embellished with a mix of high-strength materials (titanium alloy, liquid metals of zirconium and carbon fibers) that reduce the density of the device and make it, according to the spokespersons of Honor, extremely lightweight when held in the palm of your hand. In the engine of this smartphone we find the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 5G processor, an Adreno GPU, 12 Gbytes of Ram memory and 256 GByte of storage space, a 4,750mAh battery for a full day of autonomy. Top-of-the-range performance, in short, which is also reflected in the connectivity item (see the support of the proprietary Link Turbo X technology to optimize the download speed by intelligently switching between LTE and Wi-Fi networks or combining both) and in the photographic sector , which features an AI-powered quad-camera array with a 50-megapixel rear sensor and 42MP front camera.
Samsung looks ahead and focuses on the triple display
If the present is called Z Fold 3, Samsung’s near future in the foldable field still has to do with the “perfect” number. In fact, there are three screens fitted to one of the prototypes of the “Flex” family, the S model, which the Korean house has shown at Ces in Las Vegas. Its prerogative are precisely the three displays (one always visible) joined by two hinges, one folded outwards and one inwards, which give the device an S-shape and transform it into a real one. tablet when open. Three screens are also the gift of the Flex G, but in this case both hinges are folded inwards, adopting the same design philosophy of the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Z Fold 3, to close the display completely on itself. Flex Slidable stands out for the atypical nature of the two screens positioned one above the other (the secondary panel is extracted by pressing a button on the side of the phone), the Flex Note, finally, is the leap into the future of Samsung in the world of notebook. It is in fact a tablet with a hinge placed in the center of the screen to fold the two halves over each other, bring them closer to reach an angle of 180 degrees or even placing them perpendicular to each other to configure a laptop with the bottom panel occupied by the virtual keyboard.