Honor Magic V6 vs iPhone 15 Pro

Honor Magic V6

Honor

8.6

Thinnest foldable, biggest battery

iPhone 15 Pro

Apple

8.6

Smaller, lighter Pro — same A17 + USB-C 3.0, no 5x periscope

Honor Magic V6

What Reviewers Agree On

Among the thinnest, lightest book foldables ever — ~8.75mm folded, ~4.1mm open, ~219g, lighter than an iPhone 17 Pro Max
The largest battery in any foldable: 6,660mAh global (up to 7,150mAh in China) — the first foldable to cross 7,000mAh
Class-leading foldable endurance — ~7h54m full-drain, 69% left after a 5-hour mixed test, topping the foldable battery leaderboard
Best-in-class sustained performance on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — throttles far later than rivals and drains only ~41% in 90 minutes of max load
Outstanding durability: a 2,800 MPa Honor Super Steel 'Luban' hinge, armored screens and IP58/IP59 (IP69) ratings

Pros & Cons

Honor Magic V6

Pros

Among the thinnest, lightest book foldables ever — ~8.75mm folded, ~4.1mm open, ~219g, lighter than an iPhone 17 Pro Max
The largest battery in any foldable: 6,660mAh global (up to 7,150mAh in China) — the first foldable to cross 7,000mAh
Class-leading foldable endurance — ~7h54m full-drain, 69% left after a 5-hour mixed test, topping the foldable battery leaderboard
Best-in-class sustained performance on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — throttles far later than rivals and drains only ~41% in 90 minutes of max load
Outstanding durability: a 2,800 MPa Honor Super Steel 'Luban' hinge, armored screens and IP58/IP59 (IP69) ratings

Detailed Comparison

Cameras

Honor Magic V6

The strongest camera in its foldable class, anchored by a stabilized 64MP 3x periscope. The ultrawide is the weak link, and it still trails the best slab phones on fine detail.

A 50MP main (f/1.6, 1/1.56", OIS), a 64MP 3x periscope telephoto (70mm, f/2.5, OIS) and a 50MP ultrawide (15mm, f/2.2), with CIPA 6.5-stop stabilization.
Despite the thin chassis Honor fitted a 64MP periscope telephoto with 3x optical, OIS and PDAF — very impressive given the narrow dimensions and great for far-off or low-light subjects.
The V5 — and so the V6 — is the closest any manufacturer has come to a flagship camera system in a foldable.
It loses some of the detail the iPhone picks up, and the iPhone's video is just more natural.
The 50MP ultrawide camera is quite weak in low-light conditions.

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iPhone 15 Pro

What Reviewers Agree On

Grade-5 titanium frame drops weight to 187g (~19g lighter than 14 Pro) — most-praised in-hand feel of any small flagship
Same A17 Pro 3nm chip with hardware ray tracing, 8GB RAM, NVMe — same performance as the $200-more Pro Max
Same USB-C 3.0 (10Gbps), Action Button, ProMotion 120Hz, 2000-nit peak as the Pro Max — Pro features in a compact body
Same Apple Intelligence support on iOS 18+ — future-proofs through iOS 23+ in 2030s
Genuinely pocketable 6.1-inch flagship — increasingly rare in a 6.7"+ Pro-Max-dominant market
WIRED 8/10 — 'iPhone 15 Pro is the small Pro that finally tempts large-Pro owners'

Deal Breakers

No 5x Tetraprism periscope — Apple gated it to Pro Max only, leaving the Pro stuck at 3x optical telephoto
$999 base is 128GB (vs Pro Max's $1,199 / 256GB) — feels stingy at the Pro price
Launch overheating: A17 Pro ran hot in early units, iOS 17.0.3 mitigated but didn't fully eliminate
Battery regressed slightly vs the 14 Pro in several real-world tests — owners coming from older iPhones may notice
Titanium frame discolors from hand oils, matte finish picks up fingerprints visibly — same complaint as Pro Max

iPhone 15 Pro

Pros

Grade-5 titanium frame drops weight to 187g (~19g lighter than 14 Pro) — most-praised in-hand feel of any small flagship
Same A17 Pro 3nm chip with hardware ray tracing, 8GB RAM, NVMe — same performance as the $200-more Pro Max
Same USB-C 3.0 (10Gbps), Action Button, ProMotion 120Hz, 2000-nit peak as the Pro Max — Pro features in a compact body
Same Apple Intelligence support on iOS 18+ — future-proofs through iOS 23+ in 2030s
Genuinely pocketable 6.1-inch flagship — increasingly rare in a 6.7"+ Pro-Max-dominant market
WIRED 8/10 — 'iPhone 15 Pro is the small Pro that finally tempts large-Pro owners'

Cons

No 5x Tetraprism periscope — Apple gated it to Pro Max only, leaving the Pro stuck at 3x optical telephoto
$999 base is 128GB (vs Pro Max's $1,199 / 256GB) — feels stingy at the Pro price
Launch overheating: A17 Pro ran hot in early units, iOS 17.0.3 mitigated but didn't fully eliminate
Battery regressed slightly vs the 14 Pro in several real-world tests — owners coming from older iPhones may notice
Titanium frame discolors from hand oils, matte finish picks up fingerprints visibly — same complaint as Pro Max

iPhone 15 Pro

48MP main + 12MP ultrawide + 12MP 3x telephoto + 12MP TrueDepth front. The notable miss vs the Pro Max is no 5x Tetraprism periscope — the Pro is stuck at 3x optical, the first time Apple meaningfully gated zoom by phone size.

Cameras: 48MP main (f/1.78, sensor-shift OIS), 12MP ultrawide (f/2.2), 12MP 3x telephoto (77mm, f/2.8), 12MP TrueDepth selfie.
NO 5x Tetraprism periscope — Apple kept it Pro Max exclusive. The 15 Pro caps at 3x optical telephoto with computational zoom to 15x.
48MP main + ProRAW + ProRes via USB-C 3.0 enable creator-grade workflows the smaller phone can now handle.
Daylight photo quality matches the Pro Max — sensor, processing and software are identical except the periscope.
vs Pixel 8 Pro at $999: Google's Tensor G3 wins on computational tricks (Magic Eraser, Magic Editor, Best Take); iPhone wins on natural color and video stabilization.

Performance

Honor Magic V6

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with the best sustained behaviour in the foldable class — it holds frames far longer than rivals before any throttling.

Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the Magic V6 surpasses the Galaxy Z Fold 7 on performance.
After 5 minutes of sustained load every competitor throttles 30–40%, but the V6 drained just 41% over 90 minutes of max load — best in class — with an AnTuTu sustained score of ~847,000, 18% ahead of second place.
Honor of Kings averaged ~119–120fps at max graphics (3.45–3.65W, ~38–42°C); PUBG Mobile held ~119fps for 30 minutes.
Genshin Impact at ultra/60fps for 30 minutes averaged 59.5fps with minimal fluctuation, the only trade-off being a screen-brightness drop to ~250 nits.
Frame rates begin to throttle after about 10 minutes maxed out, but dropping graphics one notch locks a steady 59.74fps at just 41.5°C.

iPhone 15 Pro

Same A17 Pro 3nm chip with hardware ray tracing, 8GB RAM and NVMe storage as the Pro Max. Apple Intelligence on iOS 18+ requires this chip. Launch overheating issues real but largely fixed via iOS 17.0.3.

A17 Pro 3nm with 8GB RAM and NVMe storage — fastest mobile silicon at launch, identical to the Pro Max.
Apple Intelligence support on iOS 18.1+ — A17 Pro is the minimum chip required, future-proofs the phone.
Hardware ray tracing enables console-grade ports: Resident Evil 4, Death Stranding, Assassin's Creed Mirage run natively.
Launch overheating: A17 Pro ran hot in gaming and 4K shoots; iOS 17.0.3 mitigated but didn't fully eliminate — affects the smaller Pro slightly more due to thermal headroom.
In 2025, A17 Pro remains an absolute performer for everyday + intensive use — aged extremely well.