The Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design is perhaps the most sublimely designed foldable to date. With a bigger battery than competitors, as well as being much thinner, it’s one of the first options we’ve seen that compares well in size and capacity to more standard form factor phones. The standard variant, priced at £1700, is dearer than competitors from Samsung, Google, and OnePlus, and it’s expected that this special model will be even dearer when pricing is unveiled at MWC in a couple of weeks time. For the price though, you’re getting a truly incredible phone with a lot to like about it.
For the outlay however, the Magic V2 RSR has quite the capable feature set, with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor backed with 16GB of RAM, 1TB of internal storage, a sublime triple camera setup with a 50MP main shooter, a 50MP ultrawide and a 20MP telephoto. You of course also get two LTPO OLED displays: a 7.92-inch foldable screen and a 6.43-inch cover display.
Design
The Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design is quite the looker, with a sleek profile that’s reminiscent of the vehicular namesake attached to this collaboration. The standard Magic V2 is an excellent looking phone as it is, but this RSR Porsche Design variant takes things to the next level.
Compared to the more ‘standard’ offering, the Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design’s back panel is a lot more angular, with a thin crest down the middle, with Honor and Porsche Design logos across one edge. There is a little bit of a camera bump, but in keeping with the rest of the phone, it’s quite thin and doesn’t protrude too much.
The most critical thing about the Magic V2 in any form its extremely slim design – Honor says it’s just 9.9mm thick, which makes it the thinnest foldable to date. For reference, Samsung’s Z Fold 5 is 13.4mm thick, while the OnePlus Open is 11.7mm and the Google Pixel Fold is 12.1mm. When in-pocket or in hand it doesn’t feel like you’d expect a foldable to, lacking a noticeable pocket bulge. If anything, the Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design fits in my pocket better than my usual Galaxy S21 Ultra. It’s as thin as a more standard ‘candybar’ phone, which is a real feat of engineering.
Elsewhere, the Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design simply ticks all the boxes of modern phone design with curved edges and thin bezels around the cover screen and fold-out screen. My only criticism there is that there is the potential for small bits of dust and debris to make their way around the edges of the screens. However, to negate dust and debris on the fold-out screen itself, Honor has made use of a new hinge mechanism with the Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design, which is more rigid than its predecessor with its 91 percent titanium alloy construction, while also retaining a tighter gap on the inside edge.