A slim, tough, powerful foldable with excellent cameras and battery life; a fine choice for those who can afford it, though Magic V5 owners have little reason to upgrade.
Slim, lovely design for a foldable
Large, bright inner and outer displays
Excellent camera system
Strong battery life with large capacity
IP69 rating and tough build
Expensive at full price
MagicOS can be frustrating at times
Overheats in demanding 3DMark stress test when unfolded
An impressive, complete foldable whose hardware gains are incremental, with the bigger battery the only clearly meaningful upgrade and MagicOS holding it back.
Two-day battery life from 6,660mAh cell
IP69 dust and water resistance, first for a foldable
Thinnest foldable, 4mm open and 8.75mm folded
Seven years of OS and security updates
Triple camera is strong for a foldable
MagicOS is noisy and frustrating to use
Crease more visible than Oppo's nearly invisible one
Verdicts, pros and cons are short summaries in our words of each publisher's review; scores are as the publisher gave them. Specs are taken from the reviews' spec boxes — where they differ, we show the value most of them give; price is the US launch price of the base model. Read the originals for the full picture.