The Honor Magic V5 has been tipped to set a new foldable standard in one particular area, potentially packing in a much larger battery.
We all know the old story by now. Foldables are great and all, but they have four lingering issue: cost, dust resistance, camera, and battery life.
The first two issues are still very much going concerns, but camera quality is on the up, and now battery life seems to be following. The Honor Magic V5 could have the best stamina yet for a full-sized foldable.
Honor CMIITs to superior battery life
Honor’s next foldable flagship has just appeared in CMIIT certification. That’s the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which is China’s equivalent of the FCC.
Essentially, before any phone appears on the Chinese market, it has to pass through the CMIIT.
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According to this listing for phone (model number MHB-AN10), the Honor Magic V5 will run on a huge 5,950mAh battery. According to one Weibo tipster, this will equate to 6,100mAh, which would be the largest foldable battery yet.
That’s a massive 20% capacity boost over the already pretty sizeable (for a foldable) 5,150mAh battery in the Honor Magic V3. There was no Honor Magic V4, if you’re wondering.
Still the slimmest foldable too
We’re not expecting this to increase the size of Honor’s foldable either. In fact, the Honor Magic V5 could be even skinnier than the Honor Magic V3, dropping below the 9mm mark when closed (the V3 measured 9.3mm).
The key to this, of course, is silicon-carbon (si-c) battery technology, which produces more densely packed batteries. It’s the reason the OnePlus 13 can offer a huge 6,000mAh battery without being a particularly large phone.
With the largest battery and the slimmest body, the Honor Magic V5 is shaping up to be the ultimate foldable from a hardware perspective. If Honor can rein its software in a little, we could have a major contender to take on the OnePlus Open.
