Honor Teases the Magic V6 Foldable
Honor has announced the Magic V6, its latest foldable flagship smartphone, featuring the largest battery yet fitted into a foldable device and a hinge rated at 2,800 MPa tensile strength. The phone measures 8.75mm when folded and approximately 4mm when unfolded, weighing 219 grams. These figures apply specifically to the white variant; the black, red, and gold versions are 9mm thick when folded and weigh 224 grams.
“The industry needs the courage to evolve. Foldable users should never have to compromise between design, reliability, and performance,” said James Li, CEO of HONOR. “With the HONOR Magic V6, we focused on what truly matters: a natural form factor, trustworthy durability, and seamless cross-ecosystem productivity. HONOR Magic V6 reflects our commitment to building AI devices that empower people to realize their fullest potential, as we set out to do with our HONOR ALPHA PLAN.”
The rear camera array, which Honor brands as the AI Falcon system, carries over largely unchanged from the previous Magic V5: the main sensor is a 50-megapixel unit with a 23mm equivalent focal length, an f/1.6 aperture, and optical image stabilization. The telephoto camera uses a 64-megapixel periscope design with a 1/2-inch sensor, a 70mm equivalent focal length, an f/2.5 aperture, and CIPA-rated stabilization of 6.5 stops. The ultra-wide camera is a 50-megapixel sensor at a 15mm equivalent focal length with an f/2.2 aperture. Dual 20-megapixel front cameras serve the outer and inner displays, also apparently unchanged from the prior generation.
With the hardware held constant, Honor has concentrated its imaging updates on software: an AI Color Engine and a revised Magic Color 2.0 processing pipeline govern tone and color rendering across the system. The more substantial addition is AI Image to Video 2.0, a generative tool that produces short video clips from two or three photographs captured on the device, guided by a text prompt describing the desired motion or transition. A First-and-Last-Frame mode allows the user to specify an opening and a closing scene, with the system generating the sequence of motion connecting the two, and a set of preset templates applies cinematic camera movements and color styles to the generated footage in a single step.
The outer display measures 6.52 inches and the inner foldable panel 7.95 inches, both with adaptive refresh rates from 1 to 120Hz. Peak brightness reaches 6,000 nits on the outer screen and 5,000 nits on the inner screen. The inner screen is built with UTG flexible glass, while the outer display is protected by a silicon nitride coating applied in as many as 5,600 layers. The device carries both IP68 and IP69 ratings for dust and water resistance, and the hinge incorporates a bionic cushioning system intended to absorb impact from drops.
The battery is a 6660mAh silicon-carbon cell, and charging is rated at 80W wired and 66W wireless, with reverse wireless charging available as an option.
The Magic V6 runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, paired with 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, on top of MagicOS 10. The software includes AI agents for settings management, photo organization, and contextual suggestions, alongside native interoperability with Apple hardware through Honor Share for file transfers and notification mirroring with Mac computers. Google Gemini is integrated for text, voice, and image queries, with a three-month trial of Google AI Pro included, providing access to Veo 3.1 video generation, the Nano Banana Pro image tool, and 5TB of cloud storage.
Honor is rolling out the Magic V6 in stages, beginning in Malaysia at a starting price of RM7,699 (approximately $1,918), before extending to additional markets including Europe, the Middle East, and Africa through the rest of June.
