Huawei launched a folding screen smartphone yesterday - Huawei P50 Pocket, which is the third machine in the P50 series, which does not support 5G networks like the previous two machines, and is also equipped with snapdragon 888 4G chips; before this, Huawei launched P50 and P50 Pro two 4G mobile phones, the first two machines have been on the market for a long time.
It is worth mentioning that the Huawei P50 Pro is a Kirin 9000 chip version, and the Huawei MateX2 4G version previously released by Huawei is also equipped with a Kirin 9000 chip; and this Huawei P50 Pocket does not carry the Kirin 9000 chip, and Kotaku guesses that the inventory of the Kirin chip may have been exhausted, and Huawei had to use the Snapdragon chip.
For Huawei, the use of Kirin chips on high-priced mobile phones is a good choice, so the previous Huawei P50 does not have a Kirin 9000 chip version, while the relatively high price of Huawei P50 Pro has a Kirin 9000 chip version, and the Huawei MateX2 with a price of more than 10,000 yuan is also equipped with a Kirin 9000 chip, which shows that the higher price of the mobile phone has the opportunity to use the Kirin chip.
Kirin 9000 is a flagship chip launched by Huawei last year, this chip uses a 5nm process system, based on the A77 core architecture to build, but even so, the performance of this chip is not even lost to the A78 core architecture of the chip; but unfortunately, as of now, Huawei has not launched an upgraded version of the Kirin 9000 chip.
On the Huawei P50 series of machines, Huawei introduced the Snapdragon 888 4G chip, and Huawei has become the only manufacturer in the industry to use the 4G version of the Snapdragon 888 chip; interestingly, the Snapdragon 888 chip itself is integrated with 4G baseband, but because Huawei has been limited in the supply of components, Huawei basically has no way to launch 5G smartphones.
In the absence of Kirin chips, 5G network blessing, many netizens think that huawei P50 Pocket machine pricing is relatively high - the starting price of 8988 yuan for a Snapdragon 888 chip mobile phone is indeed a lot higher, even if this is a folding screen mobile phone; it is worth mentioning that Samsung this year launched a folding screen mobile phone with a folding design, the starting price is only more than 7,000, and it also supports 5G networks.
Judging from the news of the industrial chain, the cost of folding screen mobile phones has been reduced a lot, next year there will be a large number of people-friendly folding screen mobile phones listed for sale, Xiaozhai guesses that the price of folding screen mobile phones is expected to drop to less than five thousand yuan; at present, Huawei still has the competitiveness of "first mover" in the folding screen mobile phone market, but the advantage of this competitiveness in the future is not so obvious.
If Huawei can not solve the supply problem of Kirin chips, the mobile phone business is naturally going to shrink, fortunately, Huawei has launched a car business, and Koyachi believes that the car may be Huawei's next breakthrough point; then, are you optimistic about Huawei's automobile business?