It is only natural that foldable phones are thicker than your traditional smartphones. If you think about it, they’re kind of like two smartphones sandwiched into one. But if you want a foldable smartphone that isn’t crazy thick, the Honor Magic V3 is actually one of the thinnest foldables out there, and the company is sharing how they made it so thin.
There are several things that Honor has done to make the Magic V3 so thin. For starters, one of them is in the battery technology itself. According to Honor, they have incorporated 10% more silicon in the silicon-carbon battery used in the handset. Ultimately this results in a battery that is physically smaller, while at the same time maintaining its performance.
Secondly, the company has opted to use a titanium vapor chamber for the handset’s cooling system. This titanium substrate measures 0.22mm thin, which Honor claims is the industry’s thinnest. But …