On January 30 this year, the international data company IDC released the 2021 China folding screen mobile phone market research report, the report shows that in 2021, the domestic market folding screen mobile phone market size of about 1.5 million units, of which, Huawei ranked first with a market share of 49.3%, even if Huawei is encountering great difficulties in terms of supply, but still seized almost half of the domestic folding screen mobile phone market share.
The above achievements are inseparable from Huawei's cutting-edge thinking on the new form of folding screen mobile phones and industry trends, as well as the exploration and breakthrough of different folding screen solutions.
On April 28, Huawei Mate Xs 2 was officially released, which is Huawei's fifth folding screen flagship and a new product that integrates many cutting-edge black technologies, confirming Huawei's accumulation of hinges, screens, folding and other technologies.
A new generation of eagle wing folding design for true "folding freedom"
In terms of product form, Huawei Mate Xs 2 adopts a new generation of eagle wing folding design, inheriting the classic folding form, and the surrounding linear design presents an integrated exquisite beauty.
When expanded, the Huawei Mate Xs 2 presents a 7.8-inch giant screen with a golden ratio of 8:7.1, with a resolution of up to 2480*2200 and a PPI of 424, while also supporting 120Hz smart refresh rate, 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, and 240Hz touch sample rate. Above the screen, Huawei Mate Xs 2 adds a layer of anti-reflective nano-optical plating to reduce reflectivity and remain clear when used in outdoor highlighted scenes.
In the folded state, Huawei Mate Xs 2 has a 19:9 folding ratio, which is comparable to the experience of using a straight-panel mobile phone, and it is wonderful to master with one hand.
Three years and five generations of folding screens have enabled Huawei to accumulate strong experience and patents in hinge technology. Huawei Mate Xs 2 brings a new generation of double rotor wing hinges, to achieve a nearly perfect and traceless folding form and thinner fuselage thickness, the thickness of the whole machine after folding is 11.1mm, the thinnest thickness after unfolding is only 5.4mm, and the fuselage weight is only 255g, the excellent grip brought by the thin and light fuselage is comparable to the traditional straight-screen mobile phone.
Huawei Mate Xs 2 through the hinge design and screen to make the folding process of the movement more accurate, hinge and screen motion trajectory is consistent, the perception experience is almost no crease, tens of thousands of bends are still flat, flatness is 70% higher than the previous generation. In order to reduce weight, Huawei Mate Xs 2 uses innovative ultra-light materials in hinged parts, with its honeycomb-like structure, high fit, strong endurance and exquisite construction, which is comparable to the weight of a straight-panel mobile phone.
At both ends of the hinge, huawei Mate Xs 2 also adopts a uniquely designed composite hinge support structure that provides composite support and can effectively improve the strength of the hinge. Not only that, Huawei Mate Xs 2 also uses a composite laminated screen similar to the body armor structure, which is more reliable in terms of drop resistance, bending and wear resistance and impact resistance.
Aesthetic design has made a breakthrough, and intelligent interaction has gone further
In terms of aesthetic design, Huawei Mate Xs 2 adopts the industry's first microfiber process, ya black, brocade white, frost purple three colors inspired by high-end leather design, and the matching half-pack of same-color protective shell, both to protect the mobile phone, but also as a bracket.
In terms of core performance, Huawei Mate Xs 2 is the first mobile phone equipped with tri-band Wi-Fi, and with the blessing of Hongmeng Smart Communication, it also realizes four-network concurrency and five-network collaboration, creating the first accurate indoor positioning, supporting automatic floor switching, and more accurate navigation. In terms of endurance charging, Huawei Mate Xs 2 is equipped with a 4880mAh high silicon negative extremely large battery and supports 66W distributed super fast charging;
In the image part, it is equipped with a 50-megapixel primary color image system, supplemented by Huawei's image global image information restoration system, which uses XD Optics to calculate optics, breaking through the physical boundaries of the optical system and restoring real details. In addition, it is equipped with XD Fusion Pro primary color engine, through the primary color camera, 10-channel multi-spectral sensor, P3 full color gamut 2000+ color tuning, through a full range of leading software and hardware and debugging capabilities to truly restore color, so that imaging color is what you see is what you get.
It is worth mentioning that thanks to the advantages of the folding screen form, the rear camera of Huawei Mate Xs 2 is also a front camera, which provides a mirror smart shooting function, which can do front-time selfies, and is also an all-round rear-camera, and the dual-screen real-time preview when shooting.
Top hardware, innovative interaction and application ecology are the best definitions of the folding screen flagship, which are indispensable. In addition to innovation in form and hardware, interaction and application ecology, Huawei Mate Xs 2 also has excellent achievements.
The biggest advantage of the folding screen is that it is a larger screen than the traditional mobile phone, making good use of the advantages of this screen, determining the folding screen mobile phone "good or not" this most fundamental problem, through innovative interaction design, Huawei Mate Xs 2 brings Huawei's first adaptive UI engine, developers do not need to modify or only do very little modification, you can adapt their applications to expand the large screen.
More importantly, Huawei Mate Xs 2 has also achieved 100% large-screen adaptation in the Top 300 application, and the Top 2000 application has achieved 90% large-screen adaptation, in addition, with the help of multi-screen collaboration, multi-task split-screen, smart split-screen, personalized floating window, etc. Some innovative interactions, through the fast-sliding innovative gesture, with one finger, you can easily achieve the application step by step full screen / exit / shrink to the floating ball state, the interaction efficiency can even be comparable to the computer, a folding screen at the same time to meet the mobile phone, tablet, The three use needs of computers, mobile phone applications have become more intelligent and convenient, which is the real sense of the folding flagship.
Five folding screens in three years, committed to creating the lightest, flattest, strongest, best folding experience
As we all know, although the folding screen has entered the explosive period, but now the weight, hinge (crease) and reliability design are still the biggest pain points of folding screen products, and the voice of users is still endless.
As early as 2019, Huawei took the lead in launching the folding screen mobile phone Huawei Mate X, which for the first time adopted the folding solution, opening people's imagination of the last form of smart phones and bringing a very subversive folding large-screen experience to consumers around the world.
In 2020, Huawei released the second folding screen flagship Huawei Mate Xs, continue to use the folding scheme, and greatly optimized the screen and hinge, the first eagle wing folding design, the hinge structure is fine and ingenious, composed of 100 + precision devices, can achieve collaborative operation, seamless support for huawei Mate Xs screen and folding use, screen opening and closing experience smooth and lossless, truly achieve the perfect folding form of integration, but also triggered the terminal manufacturers to think about the folding screen.
Adhering to the cutting-edge thinking of the new form of folding screen mobile phones and industry trends, a year later, Huawei released a new form of folding solution folding screen flagship Huawei X2, in order to solve the largest crease problem of the inner folding screen, Huawei Mate X2 finally adopted the current industry's unique double-spin water drop hinge, through the multi-dimensional phase control linkage mechanism, to solve the problem of the gap in the fuselage in the folding state, and to ensure the bending traces, and finally presented to consumers a more complete and more reliable inner folding screen display.
Last year, Huawei brought the vertical folding flagship Huawei P50 Pocket to consumers, coupled with the Evolution of Huawei Mate Xs 2 released today, three years and five generations of folding screen products, making Huawei the first mobile phone brand with mature in-fold, out-fold, and longitudinal folding screen technology solutions. At the same time, the continuous exploration and accumulation of experience in the field of extreme full screen and future mobile phone form also allow Huawei to have a fairly deep technical precipitation in hinge, screen, and reliability.
The new Huawei Mate Xs 2, which integrates Huawei's new exploration of folding technology in the future, further attacks a series of problems such as "overweight", "obvious creases" and "fragile screens" that have existed for a long time in folding screens, bringing the lightest, flattest, strongest technology and other unique experiences to consumers.
Today, through a series of technological innovations, Huawei is constantly defining and refreshing new industry standards, and has also filled out a more ideal answer sheet for the development of the entire folding screen industry and technological innovation.