Got myself an Honor Magic V2 via the Three trade-in deal (£1,248 for the phone + a £500 bonus on trade-in value).
Hardware-wise it is incredible. Really thin. Decent screens. Great camera. Feels solidly built without being heavy. The only grumble I have with the hardware is that the hinge snaps open. It seems pretty clear that Honor intended for the phone to be used either open or closed, not partially open.
Software... meh. I'm back to faffing around with launchers and icon packs to try and get the phone looking good. I don't like the stock Honor apps. Gesture navigation is hit and miss, particularly when unfolded. And I've got a bug where the Microsoft Authenticator overlay simply doesn't work, so I keep having to grab my old phone for authentication. I miss the Pixel software experience already.
Just picked up one of these myself, hinge seems fine can be used in a range of angles, on the software side it's no OneUI but I've made its launcher and home screen a replica of my Fold 4 after enabling app drawer, no need for a new launcher or icons etc, just delete the Honor stuff or put it in a little folder
, I'd say my main early gripes with it is it doesn't have individual front and inner screen setups like the Fold and the navigation bar is spread across the bottom rather than compressed to the right for one hand use on Samsung, for me gestures seem to be and easy solution for that though. The lack of an easy tri split is something I'll miss having got used to it but I can work around with bubbles or desktop mode.
for the authenticator issue have you tried forcing an aspect ratio? Have you got the B&O headphones yet, wondered how long they take to come?
Lovely hardware generally though, the extra bit of space on the front screen makes a lot of difference and the screens are noticeable improvement to the ones in the Fold4 bar one thing, fancy having a pinhole camera on the big screen, such a ruiner for media, pinhole camera cut out should not exist in any phone at this price point, I may have to run it with a black bar and cut the width, not sure I like that option either, Samsung's under display cam may not have been as good a camera but it makes the tablet screen better generally.
The form factor and weight reduction is a lovely improvement too, perhaps my trousers will now stay up
Good charging speed too.
Still early days for me, gotta few things to trial before I decide to commit to it but I think this will replace my Fold4.
I think MagicOS 8 introduces 'swipe down for notifications' which has always been lacking for Honour/Huawei device and the worst aspect of their UI for me personally. Baffling why it's taken them so long.
It's there in 7, pretty sure it was there in 6 on my Honor 70 Lite, swipe down from top on left side of screen for notifications, right side for control panel
