Author|Zhao Chenxi
Title Map|华为Mate X,视觉中国
On November 23, Huawei’s first 5G folding screen phone, Mate X, has been officially available in the “window”.
Mate X is priced at RMB 16,999, which is slightly lower than the previous price of 2,299 euros (about RMB 18,000). However, it is slightly higher than the Samsung Galaxy Fold, which is also a 5G folding screen mobile phone. The latter was officially launched as early as September this year. The prices in Korea and the United States are 2.4 million won and 1980 dollars respectively (both 14,000 yuan). In RMB), India sells for INR 164,999 (approximately RMB 16500).
Huawei, Samsung folding confrontation
Expanding, in terms of appearance and screen material, Mate X is 8 inches when opened, 6.6 inches on the front and 6.38 inches on the back. Referring to the screen, He Gang, president of Huawei’s consumer mobile phone product line, said that Mate X uses aerospace-grade polymer flexible screen. The three-layer structure is polyimide polymer film, flexible optical glue, and polyimide polymer. film. This two-layer polyimide polymer film structure can increase the screen strength by 40%.
What’s interesting is that Huawei never announced its supply chain. Every time, supply chain vendors first revealed what technology Huawei provided. This time is no exception. According to e company reports, BOE A said today on the interactive platform that it supplies flexible AMOLED products for Huawei Mate X mobile phones.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold can be deployed up to 7.3 inches in the inner screen and 4.6 inches in the folded case, slightly smaller than Huawei. From the perspective of the flexible screen supply chain, Samsung uses the OLED flexible screen produced by its own production line. According to data released by the market research organization IHS Markit in June 2019, Samsung Display leads the global smart phone panel market with a market share of 40.2%. .
The second and third-ranked manufacturers of smartphone panels are Japan Display Corporation (JDI, 12.3%) and China BOE (11.9%). Among them, in the mobile phone OLED screen market, Samsung’s share reached 86.5%, BOE ranked second with 8.3%, and third place with 3% share. Samsung at OLThe ED screen shows obvious advantages in terms of capacity, technology and yield.
In terms of camera, Huawei Mate X uses Leica four cameras. The four cameras are a 40-megapixel super-sensing camera, an 8 megapixel telephoto camera, and a 16-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera. With a professional-grade 3D depth sensor, the Leica quad can achieve a 45x zoom range.
Compared with Mate X released at the beginning of the year, Huawei did a lot of software adaptation and hardware adjustment before the official sale of Mate X. In particular, the camera module changed from three to four. Although Huawei’s camera has increased to four at this time, there are two fewer than the Galaxy Fold.
The Samsung Galaxy Fold is equipped with six cameras, a rear 12 million pixels + 12 million pixels + 16 million pixel camera, a front 10 million pixels + 8 million pixel camera, and a 3D rear deep sensor.
More importantly, in the folding scheme, Samsung adopted the in-line folding scheme, and Huawei adopted the outer folding scheme. The Samsung official said at the Galaxy Fold China conference that the in-flight solution is more difficult, and the Galaxy Fold uses a hidden hinge design that can be folded up to 200,000 times.
The external folding scheme adopted by Huawei shows that the hinge of Mate X consists of a four-layer structure covering polymer materials, flexible screens and soft plastic support sheets to prevent damage to the screen. It can also be seen from the appearance that the protection between the hinge of the folding area and the screen is better.
The outer fold is the biggest difference from the inner fold. In addition to the appearance, the inner fold places the screen inside, and the outer fold exposes the screen to the outside. In addition, the inner fold has higher requirements on the flexibility of the screen, and the folding angle is larger. Although the outer fold conforms to the user’s usage habits, the screen is more likely to cause damage due to direct contact with the outside world.
Fang Bozheng research and research associate Fan Bozhen also believes that “inside and outside, each has its own advantages and disadvantages, the internal folding protection panel is higher, but it is more difficult than the external folding. The external folding is in line with the general user’s usage habits. In the folded state, it can be directly in the form of a mobile phone.”
It is worth noting that in April of this year, Samsung appeared in the evaluation machine for the media, such as bumps, black screens, broken screens, etc. In particular, after tearing off the protective film of the mobile phone, the mobile phone could not use. According to an article published by The Verge executive editor Dieter Bohn, after iFixit disassembled the Galaxy Fold phone, it found a 7 mm gap between the hinge and the screen, which caused dust or brokenThe entry of the film.
Samsung has modified the product in the future. For example, the protective cap is added to the bottom and top of the hinge area; other metal layers are added under the display for protection; the space between the hinge and the main body of the mobile phone is reduced, etc. To some extent, it avoids the situation of the previous evaluation machine.
Finally, in terms of software adaptation, according to He Gang, some improvements and optimizations made by Huawei Mate X were introduced. For example, the first Folding Screen Application Ecology Alliance was established. According to PPT, the alliance vendors include mainstream APP vendors such as Taobao, Today’s headlines, WeChat, and Baidu. The smart split screen function can simultaneously view two web pages on the mobile phone interface, and the image drag and drop is more efficient at work.
Samsung also optimized the display area. Galaxy Fold can display up to three apps on one screen, and the three apps can be seamlessly switched.
Huawei 5G full scene conception
At the press conference, He Gang reviewed some achievements made by Huawei terminals in the past. In 2019, Huawei’s mobile phone sales continued to grow. As of October 22, 2019, Huawei reached 200 million units of sales, 64 years ahead of 2018. day.
At the same time, Mate 30 5G and Mate 30 Pro 5G were officially announced as pre-sales for the second generation of 5G mobile phones. The second generation 5G mobile phone supports NS in addition toThe key to A and SA dual mode is the integration of 5G SoC. More importantly, Huawei also released a 5G ecological full scene product.
5G+VR cloud game, after the Huawei 5G mobile phone and VR Glass are connected, the two devices can be linked to each other. The VR Glass weighs 166 grams. The temples are folded and designed to support myopia adjustment. Users can wear myopia without wearing eyes. Can experience VR scenes.
Huawei 5G industrial module, with a downlink rate of 2Gbps and an uplink rate of 230Mbps, built-in high-performance application processor, single-chip sales price of 999 yuan, on October 23, 2019.
The EMUI10 distributed technology can realize the functions of cross-system interaction between Huawei MateBook and mobile phones. The above is the advance layout of Huawei’s 5G application scenario products.
It is worth noting that Samsung has a lot of layouts in terms of 5G. According to market research firm IDC report, global smartphone shipments in the 2019 Q2 quarter were 333.2 million units, down 2.3% from the 341.2 million units in the second quarter of 2018, but Samsung shipped 75.5 million units in Q19 2019. Ranked first in the smartphone market.
The Samsung Folding Mobile Galaxy Fold has sold 500,000 units worldwide. SamMobile news shows that Samsung also plans to increase the sales of Galaxy Fold to 6 million units next year. In terms of 5G mobile phone sales, cnet news shows that as of September this year, Samsung 5G mobile phone sales have exceeded 2 million units, and by the end of 2019, the number is expected to reach 4 million units.