For the third year running, Honor has announced what it says is the world’s thinnest book-style folding phone. For the second year, it’s combined that with the biggest battery in any foldable too. This year, for its third and final trick, the company went ahead and made sure it was the first foldable with an IP69 rating too. The Honor Magic V6 was announced at MWC in Barcelona today, though Honor has played a bit fast and loose with timing to guarantee those three records: the V6 won’t go...

Whenever I review a phone, one of the first things I do after setting it up is charge it to full and then just… let it run, using it as my only phone for as long as I can, resisting every urge to charge it along the way. The Oppo Find X9 Pro lasted for three full days. 74 and a half hours, to be a little more exact. I couldn’t quite believe it either, so I ran it again. This time I turned on the power-hungry always-on display, and the phone ran for 50-odd hours before the battery hit low sin...