Just last month, Huawei released a new full-screen mobile phone - Mate Xs 2.
Starting at 9999 yuan, it is currently the cheapest Huawei folding screen mobile phone in addition to the P50 Pocket.
It adopts the design of the outer folding screen, 6.5 inches when folded, 7.8 inches after unfolding, and the appearance is exquisite and thin.
4600 mAh battery (4880 mAh for Collector's Edition), 120 Hz refresh rate screen, running the latest Hongmeng version 2.0.1 system.
And for reasons that are well known, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 4G processor has to be used.
Hey, even the two high-end folding screens are used Qualcomm chips, it seems that the bottom of this Songshan Lake is really not much heirloom to dig up.
I hope that HiSilicon can get out of the predicament as soon as possible.
Looking at the paper parameters, the Mate Xs 2 is no different from other Huawei 4G phones launched recently.
What kind of experience these configurations correspond to, I believe that the small partners also know it.
So I'm not going to talk to you about this article - let's get straight to the point.
Today I will nag with the big guys, Huawei insists on this folding folding screen design, in the end it is easy to use or not.
And the corresponding software ecology on the folding screen, what kind of level is it at now.
If you like this phone very much and want to buy one to go home, but you are worried about experiencing the car, it is not suitable for daily use and you are not sure.
Then I believe this article can help you make the right choice from these two perspectives.
>/Fold screen:
The advantages are outstanding, and the defects are also obvious
Putting aside the "Royole mobile phone" that has been deeply involved in the capital chain crisis, Huawei is currently the only manufacturer in the world that produces "folding screen" mobile phones.
After the launch of the "inner folding design" of the Mate X2 and the "clamshell design" of the P50 Pocket, Huawei also turned around and returned to the original point, and launched an external folding screen mobile phone on the joint eye of the friends who have launched their own folding screen mobile phones.
However, how to talk about the actual hand experience of the outer folding screen...
emmmm, I'll tell you the same in order from pros and cons.
First of all, the biggest problem solved by the outer folding screen is the crease.
The reasoning for this is the same as that of handmade origami: the angle of folding is small, and the trace is deep; the angle is large, and the trace is shallow.
Therefore, manufacturers who do inner folding screens are now studying teardrop-shaped hinges in order to create large angles of folding angles.
However, no matter how large the bending angle of the hinge 'water droplet', how can it be too large than the design of the direct outer fold?
If you put it under the light and deliberately observe it, you can indeed see the undulations of the bends.
However, if it is only daily naked eye observation or touch by hand, this part of the area is very smooth and there are no creases.
And this May Day holiday, I have been using the Mate Xs 2 as the main machine, and the touch of this part of the area has not changed significantly for five days.
Secondly, the outer folding screen reduces the weight of the whole machine compared with the inner folding screen.
After all, there is a screen shared inside and outside, and less screen is less glass, which is naturally less weight.
Take the Mate Xs 2, for example, a phone that unfolds nearly eight inches and weighs only 255 grams!
It's almost like the 13 Pro Max with a protective case. ( Fruit Pro Max is 6.7 inches, bare metal weight is 238 g )
Moreover, because the screen is the border, the outer folding screen solves the problem of "hand" on the hinge side of the inner folding screen mobile phone.
That is, even if the inner folding screen mobile phone works well, the hinge side will still have a discontinuous border, and the hand is inevitable.
But the Mate Xs 2 doesn't have that problem.
I showed my friends a few of the Mate Xs 2 and friends' inner folding screens, and they agreed that the Mate Xs 2 would hold better.
Can eliminate creases, reduce machine weight, ensure the feel...
Looking at it this way, the outer folding screen is much better than the inner folding screen, right?
But in fact, it brings many problems.
emmmm, to be precise, all the problems are caused by one fundamental problem: the folding screen, its screen on the outside.
>/ Folding structure:
It doesn't give me a chance to be careful at all
When I blew water with a friend in a factory before, he told me that the most vulnerable part of this flexible screen on the folding screen was the rubbing at the folding line.
More than 90% of their after-sales maintenance orders, the R & D team came to locate the cause of the failure is "vigorously pressing the screen at the fold when folding", which led to the tearing of some OLED pixels.
After learning about this, I was extra careful when opening and closing the screen.
Pinch the border when you open the screen.
When I closed it, I only pressed the screen down a little bit, and then I changed hands and pushed the phone from the outside to close.
However, this is for the inner folding screen - the outer folding screen does not give me a chance to be careful.
Due to structural reasons, when expanding the outer folding screen, it is inevitable to press and hold the screen in the polyline part to fully expand the screen.
Second, it is inevitable to pinch the two lobes of the screen throughout.
Similarly, when you close the phone, it is also a process of pressing the screen before and after...
That is to say, from the opening and closing logic, the outer folding screen will inevitably suffer more external force squeeze than the inner folding screen.
Similarly, because the screen is facing outward, when the outer folding screen is closed, it is the "screen" and "back cover" of the mobile phone, and the damage that should be carried by the mobile phone shell becomes a direct face-shaking output. ( Flexible screen: I have endured too much ~ )
Last year's Double Eleven, I bought a Xiaomi MIX Fold, and it fell to the ground countless times in the past six months.
Rao's glass back plate and metal frame also leave scratches of deep visible bone.
According to Huawei, the outer screen of the Mate Xs 2 adopts a multi-layer buffer structure, and the reliability is several times higher than that of the previous generation.
So I pondered that the normal opening and closing screen squeeze stress Huawei should be taken into account.
But if the phone does get into the hands of someone like me with a big grin, I'm really not quite sure how long the soft outer screen can hurt in an environment where both glass and metal are miserable.
However, the Mate Xs 2's screen is not cheap to fix:
On Huawei's official website, the Mate Xs 2 is provided with a broken screensaver priced at 1699 yuan, which is valid for one year - it feels acceptable to bite the teeth, right.
But if you use the machine in the first year during the screen is not broken, this 1699 yuan hit the water drift, not to mention, after the screen is broken again, the first time 3899 yuan, and then 5089 yuan each time.
The cost of a P50, snap, gone.
So if you really like the advantages of the outer folding screen, you want to use it for a long time...
Also make sure to give it a warm home.
Otherwise it hurts, your wallet hurts even more...
>/ Software Adaptation:
App is not decent, Hongmeng help it decent
However, putting aside the debate over the service life of the outer folding screen and the inner folding screen, when it comes to the daily use experience, there is one thing that is the same for them: the bad app ecology.
At present, in addition to the "video novel comic app" such as Youaiteng and starting point tomato, which have made a good adaptation to the folding screen, the display ratio of other commonly used apps on the folding screen is more or less explosive:
B station, Xiaohongshu and other such are still barely usable, but Meituan, Taobao, JD.com, Pinduoduo, the official apps of the three major operators, and the apps of some banks...
All are proper 10,000-year-old rotten kings!
For these undignified apps, we have to mention the three links on Hongmeng OS that help it be decent.
The first is the special edition - Hongmeng OS itself puts forward some specifications for the development of folding screen apps.
So when I opened the Hongmeng version of Weibo, I found that it had an extra margin restriction compared to the Android version of Weibo.
With this margin constraint, the Hongmeng version of Weibo is more readable after the folding screen is expanded.
This is followed by the application scale limit and the parallel viewport , which directly constrains the overall display scale of the app.
The latter will create a split-screen interface within the app to increase the display density.
However, these two functional friends are also involved, but they are not unique to Huawei.
In general, through the above three methods, Hongmeng OS has realized the folding screen adaptation of 300 commonly used head apps.
However, I would say that the constrained display ratio will cause the screen to be black-edged, and the effect of the left and right split screens can only be regarded as barely elegant.
It is estimated that huawei also has small partners who think so, so they also hold back a big one this time: the world's first adaptive UI engine.
According to Huawei, this gadget can learn to obtain the original layout information of the App, and re-optimize the layout of the graphic information for the application interface, and the layout is more refined.
A comparative demonstration was also put on the scene of the press conference.
With this thing in place, it is difficult for those ten thousand years to swing the rotten king.
however... Since the engineering machine I got is still running a beta system, the adaptive UI engine has not yet been installed.
So its actual adaptation effect I can not test for the time being, there is a little regret.
In addition to the folding screen display ratio adaptation, Hongmeng OS's small window experience in the folding screen also made me cool:
After expanding the folding screen, if there is an app running in the foreground, all new message notifications clicked later will be displayed in the form of a small window by default.
The size of the small window can be adjusted freely, and two small windows can be displayed on the screen at the same time.
If there is a new notification coming in at this time, then the original small window will be minimized to the edge of the screen in the form of a WeChat floating window.
When you need to tap the edge of the screen, you can recall it again, and the experience can be said to be quite silky.
This point is not blown or blackened, it is probably the best small window I have used so far, on the folding screen.
>/ Summary:
The software experience is excellent, and the hardware has slight concerns
After using the Mate Xs 2 for seven days, I groped around the hardware and software features of the phone.
At the software level, the adaptation of Hongmeng OS to the folding screen is indeed remarkable: the silky small window, the existing three adaptation measures, and the adaptive UI engine that will be installed soon provide a guarantee for the daily use experience.
However, at the hardware level, even if the outer folding screen is as good as a thousand, once accidentally damaged, the high maintenance cost is really somewhat discouraging.
Considering only the reliability of long-term use, the Mate Xs 2 that may fold the screen is still not as reassuring as the previous Mate X2.
At this point, I think Huawei still needs a certain amount of time to prove itself.
So, is this Mate Xs 2 worth buying?
I think that if you have more money on hand, the usual machine environment is not very dangerous, and you have a little affection for Huawei's first folding screen.
So now you can enter, this phone that looks almost exactly like Mate Xs can fulfill your dream, and the daily use experience of Hongmeng OS will not disappoint you.
But if you don't have much money on hand and bought the Mate Xs 2 to use as a workhorse for two or three years, then I still recommend you wait and see.
When the first batch of crab-eating media and consumers have a positive answer to the reliability of this mobile phone, it is not too late to buy it.
And maybe by then, Huawei 5G is back.
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