In the previous evaluation of Huawei P50 Pocket when I defined the upper and lower flip folding screen: the final form should be small, light and thin, can be used normally after unfolding, the outermost 1-inch display can simply display various types of information reminders, weather notifications, functions can be selfies, after opening the screen, you can continue to reply to the message, view specific information, for "normal" operation.
The folding screen mobile phone with left and right opening and closing is actually similar to the design logic of the upper and lower flaps, which is a display form from "small" to "large", but the latter emphasizes "portability".
Folding up and down is to do "subtraction" on normal straight-screen mobile phones; and left and right opening and closing, in my opinion, is more like "addition" on straight-screen mobile phones, which is the "continuation" of straight-screen mobile phones.
So far I have been in contact with a variety of folding screen models in the form of left and right opening and closing, here are the early release of Royole, Xiaomi, there are also recently released OPPO, due to the length of reasons I will not do too much introduction in hinge technology, if you want to check this part of the content, you can click this: "Huawei P50 Pocket: boutique fold, gifts".
The folding screen using left and right opening and closing is more than the mobile phone with the upper and lower "lid", and the number of options is more, such as Royole, Xiaomi, Samsung, OPPO, and Huawei, and the price also ranges from 6,000 to 20,000 yuan, which is the gap that consumers can first feel. In addition, the "screen" of the entire folding screen has different widths and widths, which is the "most perceived" part after touching and playing.
As a heavy mobile phone player, it is not easy to find a "usable" folding screen, because the light screen part was directly dissuaded by me, Royole and Huawei Mate XS use external folding, folding and opening can show a good length and width, but the screen life and loss is a problem, plus I like to "naked" with the phone, so it is too easy to bump, so directly give up.
This makes me focus on the form of in-folding, just contact with some of the early inner folding screen mobile phones are actually not satisfactory, such as the use of "slender strips" screen ratio of Xiaomi and Samsung, the outer screen in addition to viewing simple messages, the entire screen width is very limited, it is very difficult to type, the input method will be "width compression", and when browsing some shopping platforms, the displayed H5 pictures will often undergo very serious compression, and it is not convenient to preview.
This is actually left to the subsequent launch of folding screen manufacturers a topic, in the end what kind of folding screen is a good folding screen?
The outer screen needs to be the same experience as a straight phone
In the folding screen mobile phones I have used, the external screen of Huawei Mate X2 and Honor Magic V can be used (so it may offend some manufacturers), Huawei Mate X2 reviews have been seen everywhere, which will no longer do too much writing, this time focus on Honor Magic V.
If you do not open the Glory Magic V, it is likely to be considered a "straight screen" model, its front length and width and the current stage of the straight screen machine is no difference, 6.45 inches in the current mainstream mobile phone, and often 6.7, 6.8 screen compared to the "small screen", the screen material is OLED, to be honest, the color vividness is more than the glory before the Magic 3 Pro "convergence" some, in terms of hard quality, still "DCI-P3 wide color gamut + 1 billion colors + HDR10+ Technology" This shows the Troika, but this screen is still a bit bland for me, and users who are spoiled by AMOLED must be in "bright" mode.
The front edge part has a "curved surface", but if you don't look closely, it is actually difficult to see, the curvature is not high, the hand can feel it, if the curvature can be a little larger.
Before Zhao Ming said a sentence "can not be folded for the sake of folding" The meaning behind this sentence is that this folding screen must be designed for the actual scene.
In other words, what use cases have more obvious advantages on the big screen?
If you go deeper and identify a topic, is it possible to "replace" tablets? This requires telling me what I do with my tablet.
I admit that I think about productivity before buying a tablet, and iQiyi directly after buying it.
I have experienced in detail about productivity, daily writing is not a big problem, but if you want to complete a "picture and text" article, in fact, the most inconvenient is in the "drag and drop" picture process. I generally import the camera picture into the notebook, directly insert the word after retouching, if it is placed on the tablet, you need to "import to the tablet" one more step after the notebook retouching, far less convenient to operate directly on the notebook.
The same is true on the Honor Magic V.
If you directly call the picture in the mobile phone library directly inserted at this time, this can reflect the advantages of the large screen. You only need to open the gallery on the split screen in the word or WPS interface, so another "hidden" operation is introduced.
Image Note: Viewing the picture of the nine square grid is more intuitive but will reduce some of the text content
"Retouch" in the collapsed screen.
In fact, this has higher requirements for the hardness of the screen, the use of glory Magic V this inner screen quality is still very good, the inner screen size is 7.9 inches, close to the square ratio and "100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 10bit color, HDR10 +" display iron triangle blessing, indeed can provide a good hardware foundation for the film, at least will not be color cast.
At this time, it is much more convenient to directly use the split-screen operation to insert into the short text.
That's all I've actually experienced using folding screens for "productivity" creation.
Because of the particularity of work, friends around me use the folding screen, and I also took this opportunity to interview a folding screen user next to me, Iron Brother. He told me that sometimes I often change the article when I am waiting for the bus or taking a plane outdoors, and the large screen leaves more room for modifying the article, and it is more convenient to operate.
"I usually use it to view files, modify files, add some comments or it is convenient"
"Some old users will also open it to check WeChat."
"In terms of typing, in fact, it is not convenient to put together, and there is a sense of separation when opening, which is not smooth."
"How easy it is to play real-time strategy games."
This is the conversation between a user who uses the folding screen as the main machine and me.
As for the topic of whether the folding screen can replace the tablet, we basically agree: from some aspects, it is possible.
For example, watching videos, playing games, and reading and modifying files. But for further writing long articles for in-depth creation, it is still necessary to hand over to a PC or tablet with a keyboard.
In the creation of graphics, one of the experiences is actually the outside complex environment light, can you see the screen clearly, glory this time is to add a magnetron nano optical film to reduce the reflection of the screen, the actual experience of the effect is very good.
In addition, supporting 1920Hz high-frequency PWM dimming does play a "protective" role to a certain extent for my "night owl".
When I finally asked him if he cared about the "crease", his answer was interesting:
"Who has time to stare at the crease every day?"
It seems that for these high-end user groups with economic strength, they really don't care too much about creases.
Honor Magic V crease and Huawei Mate X2 is similar, and even "slightly shallow", from a more "tricky" point of view, in fact, you can see the slightly raised "two" traces, but from the positive point of view, it is very flat.
The two flagship folding screens are actually different in the hinge part. To put it simply, the Honor Magic V hinge can be seen as an evolved version of Mate X2 in some aspects, which is an ultra-thin suspended water droplet hinge, and also uses high-strength metal materials such as zirconium-based liquid metal, high-strength carbon fiber, and high-strength titanium alloy in the material to ensure folding life (folding 100 times a day can be used for 5 years).
The night view is somewhat stunning
Above I said that the pictures taken by Honor Magic V can be directly put into the article. It shows that this time the image part can indeed be taken, especially the night scene part, let's look directly at the picture.
The night picture is clean, smeared less, the dynamic range is excellent, and in the highlight part, it can be completely suppressed, such as the penultimate picture, the wedding dress outline can be taken very clearly, there is no overexposure, the overall is still very pleasing to the eye, on the one hand, the hardware quality, these three 50 million pixel lenses through the multi-main camera fusion computing photography, can indeed make the final film quality higher.
The three lenses are a wide-angle camera, an ultra-wide-angle camera, and a spectral-enhanced camera. Finally, this spectral-enhanced camera can make the final image more realistic in the fog and complex light scenes. In addition, folding screens with 48 million pixel lenses on the right side of the outer screen and inner screen are rare, and the main role of the inner screen camera is video conferencing.
This time I also found a detail, whether it is using a rear 50 million camera or a front 48 million pixel camera, in the zoom process, smoothness can be, indicating that in addition to the software algorithm, in fact, it is inseparable from performance, performance is the basis for ensuring that the hardware can run "smoothly".
As a flagship machine will naturally be equipped with a flagship processor, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 will not be absent, as for the detailed performance of this processor, it can reach the current top level, because I myself oppose running points, here is no need to run points to show performance, in the end of a sentence: Honor Magic V is currently the most powerful folding screen mobile phone.
To tell the truth, with this folding screen to play League of Legends or magic awakening card game, in addition to the field of vision has a certain advantage, the operable space also has advantages, one is that the button layout will be more comfortable, unlike the direct screen mobile phone will be too compact and mistaken to touch the situation, the second is to play card games, drag cards and control the character position, will be more comfortable, not to fight back and forth, this operation feeling is similar to on the tablet.
Both games run very smoothly and the heat control is good.
Believe me, playing games with a folding screen is a different experience
However, it is still recommended here that if there is an extreme demand for the game, it is still recommended to buy a straight-screen game mobile phone.
So finally return to the beginning of the question, what kind of folding screen is a good folding screen?
This is to combine the system, at least from the experience of this period of use, it can indeed bring convenience to me, first of all, to optimize the large-screen display function, there are three kinds of display, content layout, this is for reading software APP, can let a single page content display more content; list detail type is the home page content and secondary content display at the same time; short independent content display is not suitable for full-screen display of content.
Folding screen can provide a variety of browsing methods This is also one of the rare advantages that direct screen mobile phones do not have
In the process of use, the most convenient thing is to enter the split-screen navigation by clicking the top short line, so that the top will display full-screen, split-screen, and floating window operations, which is more convenient to use.
Will the folding screen be the new form of mobile phones in the future?
According to the CINNO Research report, the Chinese market folding screen sales reached 338,000 units in the third quarter, a substantial increase of 98% year-on-year, an increase of 34% month-on-month, according to this growth rate, the future folding screen will maintain stable growth, this remains to be seen, but with the mainstream mobile phone manufacturers to join the folding screen array, and the future like BOE, Visionox, Shentianma, Royole Technology, Huaxing Optoelectronics on the flexible AMOLED screen production capacity increase, The market size will be further expanded by the decline in costs and the continuous improvement of hinge technology.
What about portraits of users using folding screens? Among China's folding screen mobile phone users, 79% are men, 62% are between 30-45 years old, and are mainly first-line consumer city users such as Beijing and Shanghai. CITIC Securities predicts that in the next 5 years, the compound annual growth rate of the folding screen mobile phone market will exceed 90%; Southwest Securities expects that the global shipment of folding screen mobile phones will reach 18 million to 20 million units in 2022.
Is the folding screen mobile phone a corner overtaking?
For glory, Magic 3 is certainly a masterpiece of its impact on high-end products, but due to pricing reasons, as well as the homogenization of hardware of similar products, it seems difficult to break through the inner circle of high-end "hardware", and it is necessary to re-enter such a "I want you to die is my life" mobile phone market is still standing, and can only be one step ahead of others.
As far as the current mobile phone market is concerned, the straight screen mobile phone is already the "red sea", it is almost impossible to become a "blue ocean" through innovation in the "red sea", mobile phone manufacturers have also fallen into a difficult situation of hardware innovation, folding screen has become the next "blue ocean" of mobile phone manufacturers, Glory took the lead in releasing the folding screen, is it to rush to the high-end market corner overtaking?
This requires the test of market consumers, and the current problems are actually more obvious: the high cost of warranty accessories, the non-rigid demand of application scenarios, the price is too large compared to the direct screen, etc., are the problems faced by the folding screen at present.
How to turn the use scenario after opening and closing into just need, and become a "changeover" that can really replace the straight-screen mobile phone may be what the current folding screen mobile phone manufacturers should think about - rather than launching the folding screen for the sake of launching the folding screen.
At this point, honor magic V does make some attempts.