In terms of selling price, when it was released overseas at the beginning of the year, Mate X was as high as more than 2,000 euros, equivalent to about 18,000 yuan. By convention, domestic prices will be lower than overseas, but outside prices are not expected to be low.
Editor’s note: This article is from Tencent News APP “First Line” section, author | Guo Xiaofeng.
On October 17, according to the information disclosed by Huawei employees, Huawei will hold a full-course media tasting in Shenzhen on October 23, officially releasing the Mate X national version of the folding screen smartphone and opening the pre-order.
At the beginning of this year, Huawei officially released the first folding screen smart phone Mate X. Like the Samsung folding screen mobile phone, the machine has not been released in China. According to the above news, Mate X will be officially listed on November 1. At the Huawei Mate30 series new product launch conference last month, Yu Chengdong also said that Huawei’s folding mobile phone Huawei Mate X will be launched in October.
According to the official and online exposure data, Huawei Mate X is equipped with a combination of Kirin 980 SoC+ Baron 5000 5G baseband, and the body screen is an 8-inch 19.5:9 ratio display with Huawei’s own hinge design. The user can fold the screen of the mobile phone, and can fold freely from 0 to 180 degrees through the original hinge screen. After folding, the front screen of the fuselage is 6.6 inches in size, the back screen is 6.38 inches, and the thickness of the body is only 11 mm. In addition, Huawei Mate X supports dual-mode 5G network functions and also supports 4K 60 fps video recording.
In recent years, in the context of the continued decline in global smartphone shipments, the entire industry has tried to make more breakthroughs in design innovation to stimulate the formation of replacement consumption. From the concept of all kinds of full screen, Liu Haiping, perforated screen, waterfall screen and surround screen, it is not difficult to see that the change around the screen design has been the most positive direction of change.
From last year’s Flex Pai flexible screen mobile phone, to the beginning of this year, Samsung and Huawei released the folding screen mobile phone form based on flexible screen technology, bringing mobile phone design innovation into a new field, but folding The development of the screen this year is also bumpy.
In April of this year, Samsung tried to market Samsung Galaxy Fold, but had to recall urgently because of hinge performance and screen processing problems. However, after improvement, global sales began in September, and sales were hot. According to media reports, the two pre-sales were quickly sold out. Samsung’s foldable screen production increased by 40% in September, and 102,000 units are planned for production in October. It is reported that Galaxy Fold will land in the domestic market in the double eleven time.
The industry is well known, the process of folding screenThe requirements are very demanding, and although there are many options for the industry to coexist, there is almost no real experience. And whether mass production can be a daunting challenge for any mobile phone manufacturer, because in addition to the price of the parts themselves, there are many factors to consider.
BOE is Huawei’s largest screen provider. According to the original plan, the company will provide Huawei folding screen mobile phone screen. However, there was news last month that BOE will start a production reduction plan. It is said that BOE’s production reduction plan is due to insufficient production of the sixth-generation flexible OLED and weakening market demand. The company will lower its production target in addition to delaying its production plan. How Mate X will perform, and giving time verification is the best way.
As for the price, at the beginning of the overseas release, Mate X was more than 2,000 euros, equivalent to about 18,000 yuan. By convention, domestic prices will be lower than overseas, but outside prices are not expected to be low. Industry analysts pointed out that users spend a high price to buy a “transition” product that is not good enough in quality and stability, and the software services that are adapted are not rich enough. Therefore, the folding screen is much larger than the actual needs of the user.
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