The Magic V6, June 10 -- When Honor announced it would bring the Magic V6 to Europe and the Middle East before Samsung had even scheduled its Galaxy Z Fold 7 reveal, the move was not accidental. The phone itself is remarkable. The timing is a strategy.

lighter than the non-folding Pro Max it dimensionally rivals. The white colorway holds the official record as the world's thinnest foldable; the other three colors, black, gold, and red, come in fractionally thicker at 4.1 millimeters.

None of that is the most significant number on the spec sheet. That distinction belongs to 6,660 milliampere-hours - the silicon-carbon battery Honor has installed in a device thinner than most conventional flagships. The company calls it the largest cell e...