Honor’s ridiculously thin foldable is another cool phone the US won’t get

Honor is releasing its Magic V3 foldable successful Europe pursuing its debut successful China earlier this summer. It’s not hard to spot the V3’s header feature, which is its incredibly slim profile. It’s each the much striking successful a class stacked with thick, bulky devices, but similar so many other absorbing foldable phones, it won’t beryllium sold successful the US.

When folded, the Magic V3 measures 9.2mm thick. That’s not a full batch much than a accepted slab telephone similar the Galaxy S24 Ultra (8.6mm) oregon an iPhone 15 Pro (8.3mm). It’s a batch thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold 6, which is 12.1mm erstwhile it’s folded, and it conscionable beats the 10.5mm Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Impressive.

The Magic V3 offers a sizable 6.43-inch outer surface and 7.92-inch interior screen, a monolithic 5,150mAh artillery capacity, and accelerated charging up to 66W wired and 50W wireless. There’s a 50-megapixel main camera, 50-megapixel telephoto, and a 40-megapixel ultrawide. All the worldly you’d privation successful a high-end Android phone, foldable oregon otherwise.

The V3 won’t marque it to the US, but our foldable options are getting much interesting, astatine least. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold comes successful a dramatically improved shape compared to its predecessors, and OnePlus adjacent launched its precise bully Open foldable in a stylish reddish option. Who knows, possibly Samsung volition commencement to consciousness the unit and innovate the format it seems to person settled into. We’ve gotta imagination big, people.