Although many small partners are still skeptical about the folding screen mobile phone experience, it has to be said that in the high-end mobile phone market now, the folding screen mobile phone is the representative of the top product. From last year to this year, there are several folding screen mobile phones, and if you want to see who has the richest folding screen products, it must be Huawei. Now Huawei Mate Xs2, the new folding screen flagship, is also set on April 28, which is actually Huawei's fifth folding screen mobile phone. Do you remember what the first four were like?
From the information now known, huawei Mate Xs2 will be an outer folding flagship. Simply put, it is the second generation of huawei Mate Xs. Although there are still real machines unveiled, some clues can already be seen from the official promotional posters, which are the shapes composed of two outer folds. The outer folding or the inner folding, which was originally a topic that caused a lot of controversy, may now cause new controversies.
Now to review, the earliest folding screen mobile phones basically use the design of external folding, that is, the mobile phone is a large screen when unfolded, and after folding, half of the screen is turned off and the other half is displayed, and even which side is displayed. The Huawei Mate X, unveiled in February 2019, is in this form. In order to better hold and accommodate key components, Huawei also specially designed a grip-shaped side, which has become a very classic design.
In 2020, Huawei Mate Xs debuted, and the phone continued to use the external folding scheme and made certain optimizations. The most obvious thing is that there is an additional lock on the side of the phone, which can lock the folded mobile phone. This may also be the last appearance of the outer folding phone, because then Huawei and Samsung turned to the inner folding screen, and other brands have launched the inner folding screen products, although they have shown the outer folding screen.
In 2021, Huawei launched two mobile phones with internal folding screens, the Huawei Mate X2 was listed at the beginning of the year, the mobile phone was expanded after the tablet form, and after folding, the large screen was put away and the ordinary screen on the back was used. This pattern seemed very reasonable at the time, but now it will find many problems. The first is that the experience of the inner and outer screens is divided, because the application has to be switched hard, followed by the fact that the refresh rate of most mobile phones and the internal and external screens are not uniform, and the fluency is far apart; the third is that the outer screens of some mobile phones are narrow to the point of being like a TV remote control, resulting in a very poor experience, forcing users to use the inner screen.
As for the up-and-down folding form launched at the end of the year, after unfolding, it is an ordinary mobile phone appearance, which seems to be more acceptable. Of course, this vertical folding design will lead to a very small battery capacity, but it is far more subversive of the mobile phone form than horizontal folding.
So to speak, why does huawei Mate Xs2 have to change back to the outer folding screen? It can only be said that the current folding screen products are not the ultimate form, and there is no solution that can prove that it is better than other forms. In the interaction of the folding screen, Huawei Mate X2 has achieved the ultimate, and has now reached the point where there is no opponent. So what can make Huawei continue to progress is probably the outer folding screen solution that was abandoned by all brands early, but I don't know what changes Huawei can bring?