Honor Magic 8 Pro Air vs Motorola Razr Fold

Honor Magic 8 Pro Air

A genuine surprise for an ultra-thin phone — a full triple system with a real periscope telephoto and an excellent selfie camera. Most reviewers are impressed; a minority find consistency lacking.

• A 50MP main with OIS, a 50MP ultrawide (16mm f/2.2) and a 64MP periscope telephoto (74mm f/2.6, OIS), with usable zoom from 23mm to 148mm.
• The cameras are a genuine surprise in the best way — to put it in context, the iPhone Air has just one.
• The main camera produces sharp, detailed, naturally color-accurate shots in daylight and holds up well in low light with OIS.
• The main camera is flawless — right up there with other flagship phones, vibrant colors and stunning bokeh — though ultrawide video isn't the best.
• Not that you can't get good shots, but 7 or 8 out of 10 are bad or below average at best, and the selfie camera is a solid 3.5/5.
• The 50MP selfie camera with 4K 60fps front-facing video is a standout spec still uncommon on 2026 flagships.
• Switching to telephoto sometimes triggers about a 1-second stabilization delay.

Motorola Razr Fold

Historically the foldable Achilles heel — but Motorola invested in hardware and software here, and DxOMark ranks it the best camera in any foldable.

• DxOMark rates the Razr Fold the #1 camera among foldables — roughly 8th overall across all phones — with a Gold Label.
• A 50MP main (f/1.6, OIS), a 50MP ultrawide (12mm, 122° FOV, f/2.0) and a third 50MP camera — all selfies can use the best 50MP main.
• This is without question the best Motorola camera I've ever used.
• Comes up just short of modern flagships like the iPhone 17 Pro, Find X9 Pro and Xiaomi 17 Ultra, with a DxOMark score of 164 points.
• Took it for a street-photography spin and came away genuinely impressed — the camera hardware was what caught attention.

Honor Magic 8 Pro Air

The MediaTek Dimensity 9500 is genuinely flagship-class for everyday use and short gaming, but the 6.1mm chassis has real thermal headroom limits under sustained synthetic load.

• Runs the Dimensity 9500 — a flagship chip on TSMC's 3nm process — and performs as expected at the higher end in Geekbench.
• It couldn't complete the full 20-cycle 3DMark Lifestyle Extreme test — crashing after ~5–6 cycles with an overheating warning — a real concern under heavy load.
• In a stress test it dropped to ~55% of peak performance with temperatures climbing to ~48°C — thermal headroom is limited.
• Honor of Kings held a steady 118–120fps at max graphics even during intense team fights; League of Legends Mobile held 120fps for 30 minutes using just 8% battery.
• Thermal management keeps performance consistent and getting over 60fps in GFXBench's demanding 4K test is an excellent result — a real engineering achievement in a 6.1mm body.

Motorola Razr Fold

Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 with 16GB RAM — fast for everyday use and surprisingly good in long sessions, but the choice of the non-Elite chip in a $1,899 phone is the headline criticism.

• Motorola stuck Qualcomm's excellent Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (16GB RAM, 512GB) inside its first full-fold flagship.
• With a phone this expensive it is a bit disappointing Motorola couldn't go all the way with the Elite chip.
• In a 20-minute stress test the Z Fold 7's 8 Elite was ~10% better on the first loop, but the Razr Fold ran better through the 20 minutes and ended ~20% ahead on sustained performance with similar thermals.
• Recording 4K120 for a long time makes the Snapdragon CPU run quite hot, though it cools down fairly fast.
• The non-Elite chip, 243g weight and IP49 dust rating could be causes for concern, even if the experience is smooth.

Honor Magic 8 Pro Air

The headline achievement: a 5,500mAh silicon-carbon cell in a 6.1mm body that comprehensively out-endures the iPhone Air, with fast 80W wired, 50W wireless and reverse charging.

• Fits a 5,500mAh silicon-carbon battery into the 6.1mm body via a 917Wh/L energy density — genuinely impressive for a phone this thin.
• After 5 hours of moderate daily use plus a full hour of Honor of Kings there was still 40.2% battery remaining.
• Real-world use delivers ~5–6 hours of screen-on time to 20%, and a 4–6:30pm session of 5G, Bluetooth music, ~130 photos and 1.5h navigation dropped the battery just 39%.
• The iPhone Air dies after ~9–10 hours, but this still has 18–20% left after 14 hours — stereo speakers, a real zoom lens and a 5,500mAh cell vs the iPhone's sub-4,000mAh.
• 80W wired charging hit 22% in 10 minutes, 66% in 30 minutes and a full charge in 54 minutes, plus 50W wireless and reverse wireless.
• It includes the industry's thinnest 0.15mm wireless charging coil to support 50W wireless fast charging in this chassis.

Motorola Razr Fold

The standout: the largest battery in the book-foldable space delivering class-leading endurance, plus 80W wired charging — three times faster than the Galaxy Z Fold 7.

• Lasting an impressive 14 hours 31 minutes, the Razr Fold is officially the best notebook-style foldable for battery life (16h10m with refresh-rate optimized).
• The Galaxy Z Fold 7 managed only 10h44m in the same test, with a 4,400mAh battery versus the Razr Fold's 6,000mAh cell.
• I found the battery basically impossible to kill in a single day, even with the Fold's hotspot supplying an entire office internet connection over 12 days.
• It charges at 80W wired — over three times as fast as the Galaxy Z Fold 7's 25W — plus 50W wireless and 5W reverse, with a 90W charger and a case included in the box.
• The 6,000mAh cell is colossal — about 20% larger than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold's — though there's also more display to power.

Honor Magic 8 Pro Air

MagicOS 10 on Android 16 with a strong 7-year update promise and useful AI, but it's the package's least-polished element and feels iOS-derived.

• Ships with MagicOS 10 on Android 16 and Honor promises 7 years of Android version updates — a big plus for a Chinese flagship.
• MagicOS wins as the most-improved UI, and the nano-crystal-shield display claims better drop resistance than competitors.
• The Honor Magic 8 line continues pairing stunning screens with excellent cameras, but it still can't quite nail the software.
• Honor disabling 60fps video on this phone — when other devices with the same chipset enable it — is an odd, avoidable software limitation.
• The AI image system basically does what Apple Intelligence promised — hold up the phone and it tells you what you're looking at.

Motorola Razr Fold

The surprise strength — Motorola's foldable software is widely called the best balance of Pixel simplicity and Samsung multitasking, undercut only by Motorola's update-timeliness history.

• Motorola nailed the software — it feels like the perfect middle ground between the Pixel and Samsung approaches to book foldables, with a laptop mode that turns the bottom half into a trackpad.
• The Razr Fold is winning me over with something not on the spec sheet — superb multitasking software.
• Given Motorola's awful track record for timely updates, you've got to be ready to live with the little launch bugs for a while.
• Motorola promises 7 years of Android version and security updates — best-in-class and a huge jump from last year's 3-year commitment.
• Counterpoint: Motorola is only committing to 3 years of Android upgrades and 5 years of security patches, so versus Samsung's 7 years it's really no contest.

Honor Magic 8 Pro Air

At roughly $640–718 it dramatically undercuts the iPhone Air while out-specifying it — the obvious thin-phone pick if you can buy one.

• Starts at CNY 4,999 (about $717), undercutting the iPhone Air while adding cameras, battery and speakers.
• At around $640–700 you get a 155g 6.1mm phone with a flagship Dimensity 9500, a capable triple camera with telephoto, a 5,500mAh battery lasting 20+ hours, 80W wired, 50W wireless and IP69.
• Is this the best 'air' phone you can buy right now? — the verdict is yes; the iPhone Air costs more and gives one camera and less than half the battery.
• It's cheaper than the iPhone Air in China, but still a lot more expensive than expected.
• After 18 days with it, this is the most correct product Honor has released in the past 2 years.

Motorola Razr Fold

At $1,899 it undercuts the Z Fold 7 and is the only premium book foldable many US buyers can actually purchase — value hinges on whether the non-Elite chip and update questions matter to you.

• At $1,899.99 / £1,799.99 it undercuts the Galaxy Z Fold 7 by about $100/£100, and the pre-order Moto Pen Ultra bundle adds real value — the sum of its parts is the best foldable on the market.
• If you're tired of Samsung-only or have no interest in the Pixel Fold, this may be the best folding phone you can get in the US right now — the Oppo Find N6 and Honor Magic V6 aren't available there.
• It could be called a disappointment, especially compared to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Honor Magic V5 — it should have offered something more compelling to stand out.
• If Motorola drops the price by even two or three hundred dollars within the first few weeks, this phone suddenly becomes a much stronger contender.
• It competes fairly well with the Oppo Find N6, which is amazing to see.