Horizontal folding screen mobile phones and vertical folding screen mobile phones, although they are folding screens, but the two product forms represent two different product directions - horizontal flip is aimed at "expanding", vertical flip is aimed at "shrinking"; it is precisely because of the different forms, manufacturers will often turn the horizontal folding screen mobile phone to the business direction, and the vertical folding screen mobile phone will often focus on the value.
There are two mobile phone series on the market that have launched vertical folding screens: Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip, Moto's new Rarz, and the protagonist of this article, Huawei P50 Pocket, they all take the same value route - Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 3 takes the young fashion style, Moto Rarz 5G takes the cold and light wind, and Huawei's P50 Pocket this time is a light luxury style.
Huawei provides P50 Pocket with obsidian black, crystal diamond white, and customized version of the gilded gold three color matching options, the crystal diamond white surface in the hand has a crisscrossing diamond-shaped embossing, it is easy to think of a variety of logo prints on a luxury brand, the important thing is that its texture is not only visible, but also touchable.
Expand the Huawei P50 Pocket, is a 6.9-inch inner screen, the size is larger than most of the flagship phones on the market, the resolution of 2790 × 1188, belongs to the 1080p+ level, the highest display refresh rate of 120Hz.
The pixel structure of this flexible OLED photographed under the microscope is as follows, and it is basically determined that it is a panel from BOE (but there is also news that there is a visino panel, to be confirmed).
Regarding the quality of this inner screen display, you may wish to review the objective data measured under the professional instruments of whyLAB laboratory.
The first is the brightness, the instrument measured its manual maximum brightness of 574.8nits, and the external strong light energy is excited to 734.22nits, which is the performance of today's flagship screen.
"Standard" and "Vivid" are the two display modes that Huawei gave to the P50 Pocket, of which the former "Standard" is the default mode, and the laboratory measured 103.36% of the sRGB color gamut coverage, and the latter "Vivid" mode measured 91.60% P3 color gamut coverage.
In terms of color accuracy, continue to look at the "124 color average ΔE2000 value" that reflects the color offset, the lower the value, the less the color offset, the more accurate the corresponding color - the "standard" mode that pursues color accuracy corresponds to the ΔE2000 value of the sRGB color gamut is 1.79, which is good; while the "vivid" mode corresponds to the value of the P3 color gamut of 4.34, and the color scale can only be called passing, but it is also in line with the mode positioning of the pursuit of bright colors.
The outer screen of the P50 Pocket echoes with the camera, which is actually just a small circular function screen, and the pixel structure of the OLED taken under the microscope is as above, which is a little different from the inner screen. Don't expect too much of a 1.04-inch 340× 340-resolution circular screen to do so much, but it now exists primarily for displaying time, viewing notifications, weather, controlling music, and selfies, as well as more specific sun protection detection.
On the camera module next to the outer screen, there is a very special fill light and a special camera, Huawei calls it "hyperspectral fill light" is actually a ultraviolet light fill light, with a super broad spectrum (ultraviolet) camera next to it, you can monitor in real time whether the sunscreen on your face is evenly applied, whether it can resist ultraviolet rays - but it should be noted that this function itself will emit a certain amount of ultraviolet light, so it is recommended to use the sunscreen detection function after preparing for sun protection.
▲ P50 Pocket (top) and Mate X2 (bottom)
Back to the inner screen, that is, the main screen of the P50 Pocket, the surface is a nano optical film, the actual look and feel is still good, but the texture is relatively soft. In terms of creases, compared with the recently launched Find N and its own Mate X2 will indeed be more obvious, after all, such a small fuselage in the hinge part can not be too large, the actual crease is slightly deeper but the area is small. Compared with the U-shaped hinge of Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 3, its droplet hinge folding area is larger, but the crease is much lighter.
For some well-known reasons, this year's Huawei began to switch to Qualcomm Snapdragon's SoC, even if it uses the annual flagship Snapdragon 888 platform, it can only go up to the 4G network.
Huawei's P50 Pocket is also using the 4G version of the Snapdragon 888 platform chip, and has not yet used the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 platform.
So what about the gaming performance of the Snapdragon 888 on the Huawei P50 Pocket? This time, we chose three games of "Glory of kings", "Peace Elite" and "Original God" to find out, of which Peace Elite tested two frame rate modes of 60fps and 90fps respectively, the other two games are 60fps mode, and P50 Pocket has turned on "Performance Mode".
From shallow to deep, first look at the "Glory of the King", the average frame rate is 59.69fps, basically running with a full frame of 60fps, the frame rate change trend chart is basically flat, but it was found that there are three times of screen shaking.
Looking at "Peace Elite", the 60fps frame rate mode performs well, the average frame rate is 58.91fps, the curve of the frame rate change trend chart is also very flat, and there is no picture shaking; however, the 90fps mode is not stable, and the back course is repeatedly jumped at 90fps and 40fps, the average frame rate is 58.1fps, and there are 15 frame shakes (14 times of severe jitter).
In view of the large number of "Peace Elite" jitters at 90fps, we specially tried to turn off the "performance mode" of the phone to run again, and the final number of screen jitters was less, but the average frame rate was also reduced a lot, and the whole game process was a two-step jump, from 90fps to 60fps to 40fps.
Finally, looking at the "original god", you can see that the stability of the P50 Pocket is not very good, the average frame rate is 39.4fps, and the picture shake is also more serious.
Perhaps because in front of the Snapdragon chip, Huawei is still a novice, especially when encountering the Dragon-level SoC of this year's Snapdragon 888, it is necessary to accumulate more experience in performance tuning, so that the P50 Pocket can better play the performance of the Snapdragon 888, and give Huawei some more time.
In addition to the aforementioned "32MP ultra-wide-spectrum camera", the P50 Pocket is equipped with a 40-megapixel wide-angle main camera and a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera.
Among them, its main camera is an IMX766 sensor, and the ultra-wide end is an IMX688 sensor, and the ultra-wide end is missing. And its actual performance basically continues Huawei's previous style, you can feel it directly from the sample of the main camera below, and it doesn't take too much ink here.
The following is a sample of the ultra-wide end of the Huawei P50 Pocket.
Huawei equipped the P50 Pocket with a 4000mAh battery, while matching up to 40W fast charging, ordinary (non-charging package) version is not equipped with a charger, want to achieve 40W fast charging you have to buy a charger yourself (official price 159 yuan).
The 4000mAh battery is not mainstream for today's flagship mobile phone, but compared to the next door Samsung only 3300mAh, and even the Moto Razr 5G door-cutting 2845mAh, P50 Pocket can be described as much more generous - to know that this kind of vertical folding screen mobile phone needs to make room for the hinge, hinge and other mechanical structures, has squeezed the original stretch of internal space, so Huawei P50 Pocket can have a capacity of 4000mAh is indeed a lot of conscience.
Can the Snapdragon 888 platform + 4000mAh battery satisfy its appetite for a day? In a unified environment, the test items include Weibo, Chat WeChat, online long video (B station), short video, e-book, game, photo, online shopping, and call, which lasts for half an hour, a total of 5 hours, compressing and simulating the loss of electricity in our daily use.
The P50 Pocket has 35% of the remaining charge in one round – a decent result for a 4000mAh battery, not good but enough.
We also conducted a more detailed temperature monitoring of the fuselage during the five-hour endurance test of the P50 Pocket, recording the highest temperature on the front and back of the video recording process, with the front 44.5 °C located in the upper right corner of the screen, and the back 42.6 °C near the camera module, it seems that the P50 Pocket has some room for improvement.
Standby has always been Huawei's strength - turning off the screen at night when the power is full, turning on the mobile network of P50 Pocket, keeping the basic app running in the background for 8 hours, to simulate the power consumption of the night sleep screen, to spy on its standby performance - a test run down, the machine finally has 99% of the remaining power, which shows that Huawei's night background management ability in the P50 Pocket system is still in place.
After watching the battery life and standby, let's look back and forth at its charging performance.
With Huawei's official 40W supercharger, a complete charge (from zero to 100) takes 61 minutes - 10 minutes can be charged 23%, half an hour can be full 65%, at this stage of the small vertical folding screen mobile phone limited internal space is basically unable to meet the addition of higher power charging, this performance can basically meet the daily use.
From 8988 yuan, as a vertical folding screen mobile phone, Huawei's debut P50 Pocket may be the most mature one on the market today; as a flagship machine, it does still have deficiencies, but people who choose it may not be too concerned about its shortcomings, but its difference is more moving; if you have a Huawei P5 Pocket at hand, you will choose to try it? Or will you choose to use it regularly?