The Largest Battery Ever Fitted in a Foldable Just Went on Sale in Germany

The largest battery ever fitted in a foldable just went on sale in Germany — inside a phone thinner than most non-folding flagships.

Honor's Magic V6 launched here on July 1, and the engineering speaks for itself: a 6,660mAh silicon-carbon battery in an 8.75mm folded frame, and the first foldable certified to both IP68 and IP69. For years, foldables asked customers to compromise — on battery, on durability, on thickness. This one doesn't.

More Than a Phone Company

But the device is only half the story. Honor has stopped calling itself a smartphone company and now describes itself as an "AI device ecosystem company" — phones, tablets, PCs and wearables sharing one intelligence layer, with an AI platform designed to be open rather than walled in.

The next proof point is already confirmed: the Robot Phone, with a motorized gimbal-mounted 200MP camera co-engineered with cinema-camera legend ARRI, launches in China this quarter.

What This Means for Distribution

For distribution, this changes the math. A phone sale used to be one transaction. An ecosystem brand turns it into an entry point — the tablet, the laptop, the earbuds follow, because the intelligence connecting them only gets better with each device added.

I've watched this ecosystem shift reshape our portfolio at Tekpoint for years. Honor is now executing it faster than almost anyone — and as of this month, that execution is on shelves in Germany.