Huawei Mate X2 folding screen phone to get started: four advantages, four regret
Editor’s note: This article is from the micro-channel public number “SAN” (ID: techsina), Author: Sina Technology.
Huawei held its annual flagship mobile phone Mate X2 conference online on February 22. This is Huawei’s new generation of flagship mobile phone products with folding screens. The price starts at 17,999 yuan.
At the beginning of the press conference, Managing Director and CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Yu Chengdong stepped onto the stage. He mentioned that in 2020, he has experienced various hardships, but because of the support of global consumers, “We are coming alive!”
Later, he announced a series of achievements in 2020: In the past year, Huawei’s mobile phone and wearable market share has achieved the first place in China, and TWS true wireless headsets have achieved 80% growth. Huawei has more than 1 billion smart connection devices, more than 50 million HiLink ecological users, and more than 580 million monthly active users of HMS.
In order to provide better services, Huawei has more than 10,000 authorized experience stores across the country, with more than 2,000 authorized service centers, and customer service satisfaction is as high as 99%, ranking first in the Chinese market for six consecutive years.
Real shots of Huawei Mate X2 folding screen mobile phone: new seamless folding design
After that, Yu Chengdong took out the protagonist of today’s press conference, Huawei Mate X2, Huawei’s latest folding screen mobile phone.
Huawei Mate X2 mobile phone released
01 The folding style has not changed, but the structure has changed
Although it is called “X2”, according to Huawei’s update frequency, this is actually Huawei’s third folding screen mobile phone production.
Both screens use the full-process P3 wide color gamut. The screen colors are real and natural. Both screens support 90Hz, but the internal screen touch sampling rate is 180Hz, and the external screen touch sampling rate is 240Hz.
Huawei has also made a little innovation for the surface of the screen-the industry’s first “magnetron nano-optical film” has an ultra-low screen reflectivity of less than 1.5%. When unfolding the screen, reduce the reflection to make the reading, video, game and other scenes more clear.
Innovation of hinge structure
Of course, for folding phones, the most sophisticated mechanical part is the hinge structure. Huawei claims that after five years of technical conquests, Mate X2 uses the industry’s unique double-rotating water drop hinge. Through a multi-dimensional phase control linkage mechanism, a water drop-like screen space is formed at the bend, which achieves a seamless Folding ensures the flatness of the screen after unfolding.
The material of the hinge system of Mate X2, in addition to the zirconium-based liquid metal of the previous Mate X and Xs UK, also introduces super strong steel material, which can resist impact and deformation. In addition, carbon fiber composite materials are added to ensure lightness and at the same time. Achieved high strength. Hidden opening and closing designs are also used on both sides of the hinge to prevent foreign objects from entering and prevent screen damage.
02 Hardware: Kirin 9000 chip without accident
In terms of core hardware configuration, Huawei Mate X2 is equipped with Kirin 9000 chip. For domestic users, this chip is not unfamiliar. The 5nm process is currently the 5G SoC with the largest number of transistors and the highest integration. While maintaining high performance, it will also reduce power consumption and support 5G networks.
Huawei Mate X2 not only fully supports the network frequency bands of major operators, but also supports dual card dual standby.
Kirin 9000 chip
Huawei Mate X2 uses a global smart antenna system, which can dynamically sense signal changes and folding status, and automatically adjust the state of the best signal transmitting and receiving antenna, so that whether it is folded or unfolded, held horizontally or held vertically, the signal is the best Good condition.
The camera configuration is basically the same as Mate 40 Pro+
In terms of video, this product is also the flagship configuration. The configuration of Huawei Mate X2 is actually similar to that of Mate 40 Pro+. It is equipped with a super-sensing Leica quad camera, a 50-megapixel super-sensing main camera, RYYB color filter array, four-in-one pixel fusion, and all-pixel eight-core focusing technology. One-piece sensor for precise focusing; the telephoto lens with periscope structure can achieve 10x optical zoom, 20x hybrid zoom and 100x digital zoom; 16 million pixel ultra-wide-angle camera can also achieve 2.5cm ultra-close focus .
After unfolding, the main camera becomes the front lens
Because of the unique folding design of the folding screen, when the phone is unfolded, the main camera of Huawei Mate X2 can be turned into a front camera, which completely solves the problems of self-portrait clarity and video calls.
Huawei Mate X2 has a large 4500mAh battery in the body and 55W super fast charge, which is also the flagship level in the industry.
03 Following the hardware structure, there are innovations in interaction
Huawei Mate X2 changes not only in the hardware part, but also in more delicate interactions brought by the system. For example, Huawei Mate X2 draws onThe “one shot to the end” shooting technique in the film industry makes every slide more handy and smooth. The customized dynamic theme brings an immersive and shocking screen opening experience. When you turn on the Mate X2 screen, the flowers in the inner screen will slowly bloom as they unfold, gently swaying. Behind this is the system engineer’s control of the dynamic details.
The multitasking interface makes more effective use of the large screen
Because of a large 8-inch screen, Huawei Mate X2 has also upgraded the previous smart split screen. The new form is called “Smart Multi-Window”, with floating preview windows, single-application multi-tasking, and drag-and-drop sharing , Suspended storage, etc., make users more convenient and efficient in operation, and also make full use of the 8-inch screen.
Quickly open attachments on the left side
Because of the large enough space and the matching of the system UI, users can quickly open an application through floating windows without closing the main task, such as opening attachments in emails and opening website links in memos; You can also open multiple tasks of a single application at the same time, such as double open memo, WPS document processing, etc., to facilitate the comparison of document content.
Through Huawei’s “Changlian Message”, users can quickly share files and other content by dragging and dropping on the screen. For example, drag and drop the Dianping restaurant or Weibo they just browsed directly to the Changlian App chat with friends Interface, complete sharing.
Huawei Mate X2 supports multiple application split screens and floating windows at the same time. The size of the floating window can be adjusted according to user preferences, or it can be minimized to a floating ball, or the two can be switched freely, allowing you to use one screen with more flexibility.
04 Building a folding ecology
Of course, these Huawei’s own apps are adaptedNot enough, the current difficulty of folding screen products is more in the adaptation of third-party apps. In order to better adapt to new forms of hardware, Huawei has actually joined hands with the Software Green Alliance to establish a folding screen ecological alliance in 2019, and launched a folding development framework and design specifications.
Domestic TOP200 applications achieve 100% large-screen adaptation;
TOP1000 application achieves 95% large screen adaptation
The layout of two years ago has yielded results so far: At the press conference, Huawei announced that the domestic TOP200 application has achieved 100% large-screen adaptation; the TOP1000 application has also achieved 95% large-screen adaptation. Reading, video, online shopping, gaming, social networking, office, travel, financial management and other scenarios have a better user experience.
For example, Huawei Mate X2 cooperates with third parties such as Dengchedi and Anjuke to realize 3D panoramic car viewing and panoramic house viewing; cooperation with Tonghuashun to bring more comprehensive stock information display; with Migu Video, Huawei Video cooperates to watch sports competitions from multiple perspectives, and can also watch multiple HD videos on the same screen; in cooperation with Youku, launch the industry’s first zoomable free perspective, you can freely slide the screen with your finger while watching the video to freely change the perspective; In cooperation with Baidu Maps and AutoNavi Maps, it launched the industry’s first folding large-screen sub-meter lane navigation with larger field of view and higher accuracy.
05 Starting from RMB 17,999, the first batch of HarmonyOS upgrades
Huawei Mate X2 has four colors of glaze white, bright black, ice crystal blue, and ice crystal powder. It will be officially launched on February 25, 2021. The 256GB version is priced at 17,999 yuan, and the 512GB version is priced at 18,999 yuan. In addition, Huawei also released the FreeBuds 4i wireless headset, which will go on sale on March 8, 2021.
HarmonyOS will arrive in April
At the press conference, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business, Yu Chengdong, also announced another news: Starting in April this year, Huawei’s flagship phones will be upgraded to HarmonyOS, and Huawei Mate X2 will be the first batch of upgrades.
06 There are some attachments
In addition to mobile phones, Huawei also designed a leather support case for Mate X2, which can be used as a mobile phone support in both folded and unfolded forms. Taking into account the use of the folding screen to expand the navigation and other usage scenarios, a dual-purpose car holder was also made.
New protective case
At the same time, Yu Chengdong said that Huawei has not forgotten the old users of folding screens. With immediate effect, old users of Huawei Mate X and Huawei Mate Xs can receive a new folding protective case worth 299 yuan for free at the Huawei authorized service center.
07 Summary: Folding screen application ecology has a more profound impact
In the past two years, Huawei has released two generations of folding screen mobile phones, completing the accumulation process of hardware from testing to maturity, and also completing the process of enlightenment for folding screen mobile phones for users. Today’s release of Huawei Mate X2, in addition to the further improvement of the hardware, the more far-reaching impact is the efforts aimed at the folding screen ecology.
The domestic TOP200 application has achieved 100% large-screen adaptation, and the TOP1000 application has also achieved 95% large-screen adaptation. These two data illustrate Huawei’s efforts in large-screen products in the past two years.
The more far-reaching impact on products is ecological construction
Although more general users are concerned about the hardware of Huawei Mate X2, it is more difficult and can better illustrate Huawei’s ecological dominance, but it is the construction of the software ecosystem.
Huawei is also through the simultaneous improvement of software and hardware, so that the folding screen mobile phone has become a mature mobile phone product from the initial early adopter product.