Honor’s V5 foldable phone solely launched final Summer season, however the firm’s already again with its newest mannequin. The V6 is one other book-style foldable, and I managed to get my fingers on it at Mobile World Congress 2026. It packs a bunch of tech into an amazingly skinny physique for a folding telephone, and it is set to go on sale within the UK and wider Europe within the second half of the 12 months. It’s going to seemingly hit cabinets in summer time, like its predecessor.
Honor has but to announce pricing for the telephone, however the earlier V5 went on sale within the UK on the princely sum of £1,699. I undoubtedly do not count on the V6 to be any cheaper, however hopefully it will not see too vital a worth rise. Honor’s telephones should not formally out there within the US however that UK worth converts to roughly $2,285.
The 7.95-inch internal show appears to be like vivid and daring.
So what do you get in your cash? Effectively, the design is the place a lot of that money is being spent. At simply 8.75mm thick when closed, the V6 is without doubt one of the skinniest foldables round. It really shaves 0.05mm off its predecessor, not that you simply’re ever prone to discover that distinction. Unfolded, the telephone turns into simply 4.1mm thick, nevertheless it nonetheless felt sturdy in my hands-on time.
The hinge feels sturdy, with a satisfying quantity of resistance whenever you open and shut it. Honor says it made the hinge from aerospace metal making it 87% stronger than the structural A pillar in a automobile. It is also one of many first foldable telephones that is IP68 and IP69 rated for water and mud resistance. Meaning studying ebooks on a sandy seashore or taking pictures within the rain is not any downside for this factor. It is uncommon for foldables to be fairly so proof against water as most hinge mechanisms are troublesome to make watertight.
I like this crimson and gold colour. The vegan leather-based materials has a delicate, tactile really feel.
Honor additionally says it is refined the hinge to supply much less of a crease. It is troublesome to evaluate precisely how properly this has labored once I’m briefly it on a avenue in Barcelona, however I undoubtedly did not assume the crease was overly apparent below the daylight. I am going to reserve judement for when I will see it facet by facet in opposition to rivals just like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold.
The telephone runs on Qualcomm’s newest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor, so count on blistering efficiency on par with different telephones utilizing the chip, together with the OnePlus 15 and Xiaomi’s Leica Leitzphone. It additionally packs a 6,600-mAh silicon carbon battery which ought to offer you sufficient juice to get by way of a full day of use. Digital camera specs embody a 50-megapixel important digital camera, 64-megapixel telephoto digital camera and 50-megapixel ultrawide digital camera. How properly these seize pictures stays to be seen.
It is a skinny factor.
It’s going to run Android 16 at its core and you’ll count on a complete wealth of AI capabilities on board, each Honor’s personal and Google additions like Gemini Reside and Circle to Search. It’s going to even have deeper integration with Apple MacBooks, together with the power to make use of the telephone as a second show in your laptop and drag-and-drop file switch between gadgets.
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