Honor Magic V6 vs Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

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.
• The 70mm 3x periscope telephoto is very impressive, and the main camera holds up well in low light with balanced contrast and no over-processing.

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

A 200MP main, 12MP ultrawide, 10MP 3x telephoto and new 50MP 5x periscope (replacing the old 10MP 10x). Reviewers rate it among the best, with standout zoom and portraits, but image processing remains the polarising point.

• The camera system is 'one of the best in the game' and comes with a fantastic portrait mode.
• One of the best all-around camera packages out there after months of shooting, including an excellent and often-overlooked selfie camera.
• The new 50MP 5x periscope fixes the S23 Ultra's weak 5–10x range; 5x portraits look really good and edge detection is among the best.
• Main camera is a 200MP f/1.7 (HP2) with a 50MP f/3.4 5x periscope, 10MP 3x tele and 12MP ultrawide.
• The Pixel 8 Pro's ultrawide is preferred for sharper detail and more natural white balance than the S24 series ultrawide.

Honor Magic V6

The headline: the biggest battery ever in a foldable, delivering slab-phone endurance in a 4mm-thin body, with fast wired/wireless charging and a 120W charger in the box.

• A 6,660mAh silicon-carbon cell (256/512GB) — the largest ever in a foldable — rising to a 7,150mAh Qinghai Lake battery in the 1TB China model, the first foldable past 7,000mAh.
• It lasted 7 hours 54 minutes from full charge to shutdown — over 2 hours longer than most standard phones — and beat the OPPO Find N5 (5h43m) and Vivo X Fold 5 (4h33m).
• After a full 5-hour mixed-usage test, 69% remained — securing first place on the foldable 5-hour battery leaderboard — with a Bilibili loop running to 13h23m before death.
• Over heavy Lunar New Year use — video, gaming, documents, social — only about 30% of the battery was used per day.
• 80W wired charging hit ~27% in 15 minutes and a full charge in ~49–55 minutes, plus 66W wireless and an included 120W GaN charger.
• More than 7 hours of screen-on time on the inner display alone, easily surpassing 10 hours mixed indoor/outdoor — eliminating battery anxiety.

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

5,000mAh with 45W wired and 15W wireless. All-day battery is consistent praise; charging speed versus Chinese rivals is the recurring criticism, and there is a noted One UI update battery-drain bug.

• In a head-to-head battery test it lasted 12h31m, over an hour longer than the iPhone 16 Pro Max's 11h22m.
• 5,000mAh battery with 45W wired (65% in 30 min), 15W wireless and 4.5W reverse wireless.
• Charging is on par with Apple and Google but 'leagues behind rivals out of China' that charge far faster.
• After two years, moderate use still delivers a full day with 25–30% left by bedtime; light use can stretch toward two days.
• Measured battery health was 93% after two years (one heavy year, one moderate), per Samsung's hidden diagnostics.