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Honor Magic 5 Ultimate

R12,000
SKU: 3561
Brand: Honor
Category: Mobiles
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CPU: Octa-core (1x3.2 GHz Cortex-X3 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 & 3x2.0 GHz Cortex-A510)
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 512GB
Display: LTPO OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR10+, 1800 nits (peak)
Camera: 50MP
OS: Android 13, MagicOS 7.1

Our Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

Display 7 / 10
Camera 7 / 10
Performance 7 / 10
Battery 7 / 10

PROS

Good build quality.
Large battery with fast charging.
Huge storage and RAM.
Large display with Best camera.

CONS

Over priced.
Limited variant.

The HONOR Magic 5 Ultimate represents the absolute pinnacle of luxury craftsmanship and elite engineering within the Magic 5 lineup, uniquely blending high-fashion design with flagship mobile innovations. Starting at approximately ZAR 12,000, this ultra-premium device offers exceptional value for a smartphone that arrived on the market as a high-end luxury piece.

Because it targets the top-tier luxury bracket, your final upfront price or contract configuration will vary over local markets, provincial tech hubs, and available stock tiers.

Where to Buy the HONOR Magic 5 Ultimate in South Africa

As HONOR’s ultimate halo device, its distribution network covers major digital commerce spaces, specialized electronic storefronts, and premium cellular operators:

1. Specialized Tech Hubs & Online Powerhouses

For immediate nationwide doorstep delivery, competitive pricing comparisons, and dedicated technical setups, check out these channels first:

Takealot: South Africa’s premier e-commerce platform is an excellent spot to hunt for the Magic 5 Ultimate, where competing third-party tech sellers often run aggressive clearance discounts or targeted voucher price-cuts.
HiFi Corp & Hi Online: Standard stockists for HONOR’s premium tiers, frequently hosting flexible, structured finance plans or bundling the hardware with promotional lifestyle gifts.
Cellucity & 4U: Specialized independent cellular boutiques that excel at immediate face-to-face assistance, high-tier device insurance registration, and personalized data migration support.

2. Traditional Department Stores & National Retailers

If you prefer shopping in person, reviewing the phone’s unique build quality before buying, or leveraging store card accounts and interest-free installment platforms (like PayJustNow), look here:

Makro & Game: Highly popular destinations for secure upfront cash purchases, mass-market electronic discounts, and seasonal weekend tech promotions.
Foschini: Ideal if you intend to buy the phone using an integrated fashion and retail group account to comfortably spread your premium hardware payments over several months.
Mr Price (MRP Cellular), PEP, & Ackermans: While these hyper-accessible neighborhood outlets focus primarily on entry-level models, their flagship metropolitan branches occasionally stock higher-tier devices on specialized prepaid structures.

3. Mobile Network Operators (Contracts & Upgrades)

If you prefer to split the cost across a 24-month or 36-month timeline while securing immediate monthly data allocations, carrier channels heavily support this device:

MTN & Chatz Connect: As primary mobile network partners, they feature HONOR’s high-tier models across multiple contract brackets. These packages integrate the predictable monthly hardware fee with monthly allocations of anytime data, streaming internet, and all-network calling minutes.

What Makes the HONOR Magic 5 Ultimate the Definitive Flagship?

Rather than navigating a dense block of raw technical specifications, here is exactly what this smartphone brings to your daily routine where it actually counts:

Luxury Vegan Leather & Nano-Crystal Glass: Setting itself completely apart from standard glass and plastic builds, the Ultimate edition features an exquisite, octagonal rear camera design wrapped in a durable, premium vegan leather back panel. The front display is protected by ultra-tough nano-crystal glass, offering drastically improved drop resistance compared to standard glass.

Elite Falcon Capture Camera Setup: The phone sports an advanced triple 50MP sensor layout optimized by a custom AI Falcon Capture engine. It allows you to snap incredibly crisp, blur-free photos of fast-moving objects—like sports, pets, or running children—even in challenging low-light environments.
Immersive Eye-Care Display: It features a gorgeous quad-curved LTPO OLED display that delivers unmatched brightness and color accuracy. It integrates advanced high-frequency eye-care dimming to entirely eliminate screen flicker, reducing eye strain during extended night-time reading sessions.
Top-Tier Processing Performance: Driven by the ultra-powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor, the phone breezes through heavy mobile video editing, intensive 5G multi-tasking, and heavy gaming while maintaining excellent power efficiency.
Full IP68 Water & Dust Resilience: Carrying a certified IP68 water and dust resistance rating, the Magic 5 Ultimate provides absolute peace of mind, built to comfortably survive accidental kitchen spills, submersions, or unexpected outdoor downpours.

Full Specifications

General

Brand	Honor
Model	Honor Magic 5 Ultimate
Announced	06 March, 2023
Released	20 March, 2023
Status	Available
Price	ZAR 12,000

Design

Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.	Bar
Dimensions	162.9 x 76.7 x 8.8 mm (6.41 x 3.02 x 0.35 in)
Weight	217 g (7.65 oz)
Protection	IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 min)
Colors	Black, Orange

Network

2G Network
3G Network
4G Network
5G Network
SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.	Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by)

Display

Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)	LTPO OLED, 1B colors, 120Hz, HDR10+, 1800 nits (peak)
Size	6.81 inches, 113.7 cm2 (~91.0% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution	1312 x 2848 pixels, 19.5:9 ratio (~460 ppi density)
Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.	Glass/ceramic coating

Media

Audio Playback
Video Playback
FM Radio	No
Ring Tones
Loudspeaker

Camera

Main Camera Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.	50 MP, f/1.6, 23mm (wide), 1/1.12" 1.4µm, multi-directional PDAF, Laser AF, OIS 50 MP, f/3.0, 90mm (periscope telephoto), PDAF, OIS, 3.5x optical zoom 50 MP, f/2.0, 13mm, 122˚ (ultrawide), 1/2.5", AF TOF 3D (depth)
Camera Features	HDR
Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps
Selfie Camera	12 MP, f/2.4, 100˚ (ultrawide), 1.22µm TOF 3D, (depth/biometrics sensor)
Camera Features	HDR
Video	4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps

Software

Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.	Android 13
User Interface UI or user interface of a device is the look and feel of the on-screen menu system. How it works, its color scheme, how it responds to button presses, all of these things are part of the user interface.	MagicOS 7.1

Hardware

Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.	Qualcomm SM8550-AB Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 (4 nm)
CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.	Octa-core (1x3.2 GHz Cortex-X3 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A715 & 2x2.8 GHz Cortex-A710 & 3x2.0 GHz Cortex-A510)
GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.	Adreno 740
RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.	16GB
Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.	512GB
Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.	No
Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.	Fingerprint (under display, ultrasonic), Face ID, accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, color spectrum Ultra Wideband (UWB) support

Connectivity

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.	5.2, A2DP, LE, aptX HD
Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/6e, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct
Wi-fi Hotspot
USB	USB Type-C 3.1, DisplayPort 1.2, OTG
Positioning GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.	GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS (L1), BDS (B1I+B1c+B2a), GALILEO (E1+E5a)
NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.

Battery

Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.	Si/C 5450 mAh, non-removable
Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.	66W wired 50W wireless Reverse wireless 5W reverse wired

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