Should I upgrade my Magic V3?
The Honor Magic V3 went on sale on 19 July 2024. The Honor UK shop price is £1,699.99 (read 22 September 2026). It has a 7.92-inch display, a weight of 226 g, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip and a 50 MP main camera. Honor publishes no end date for its security updates. Every figure in the Honor Magic V3 specifications below links the page it came from and the date it was read.
2.2 years oldNo published support end dateRead
Is it still supported?
Honor publishes no end date, and this site does not guess one. The support card on the Magic V3 page says what is known and where it came from.Honor UK — HONOR Magic V3, retrieved 2026-09-10
What the Magic V5 changes
The newest Honor phone in this line is the Magic V5, released 2 July 2025. Judged row by row against our published thresholds; the full table is at Magic V5 vs Magic V3.
On the makers’ published figures, neither the Magic V5 nor the Magic V3 wins a row by a gap you would notice. One gap is borderline, a difference most people would not notice: battery capacity (5,820 mAh against 5,150 mAh) for the Magic V5. The differences in weight and display size are below the thresholds you would notice. Both state the same refresh rate, peak brightness, fast charging and wireless charging. The other 20 rows have no threshold or no direction to judge by, so nobody wins them.
- Battery capacity: 5,150 mAh → 5,820 mAh borderline; marginal — most people won’t notice.
What yours is worth
No used or trade-in figures yet for the Magic V3; they appear once CeX lists it.
Our reading of the figures
Honor publishes no end date for the Magic V3’s security updates, so support is not a reason to move until it is.
On the published figures, the Magic V5 does not win a single row by a gap you would notice; the differences are below our thresholds or have no direction to judge.
Every sentence above is built from the figures on this page by a rule, not written for this phone: a support date, the rows that clear a published threshold, a price and a trade-in. There is no score and no recommendation. The methodology page has the thresholds and where they come from. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All upgrade questions.