New! Huawei Mate Xs 2 experience: May be the most suitable folding screen flagship for the main machine
Folding screen mobile phone in the recent year can be said to be a hundred flowers, creases, durability and other inherent defects have gradually improved, my view of folding screen mobile phones has also changed from the original "expensive and immature technology playthings" to "worth tasting the new form of large-screen equipment", but there is still one factor left to affect my folding screen mobile phone as a long-term use of the main machine, that is, thickness.
The existing several folding mobile phones in the folding state of often 14mm thickness and more than 290g of weight in the hand can only be described in one word - brick, there is no way to hold and use one-handed hand for a long time as the conventional straight phone, and it does not achieve a balance between the large and small screen use experience, so that many folding screen mobile phones are actually still just a tablet that can fold the screen.
Until last month, Huawei released the Mate Xs 2, and finally made the thin and light that I was most concerned about. Today is a special holiday, what is the most heartwarming gift of the 520, I think Huawei Mate Xs 2 must have it!
1, thin and light + flat, Mate Xs 2 milestone progress
Structurally, the Mate Xs 2 is back to Huawei's familiar folding design, there is a whole raised structure on the right side of the fuselage, the border is just closed with this raised structure when the screen is folded, in addition to accommodating the camera, various buttons and the charging interface at the bottom, this grip-like design also has a bit of a Kindle Oasis feeling when unfolding the one-handed grip.
Because the external folding scheme is less than the inner folding of a whole screen module, and there is no need to accommodate a U-shaped hinge that occupies more space, the thickness of the whole machine can be thinned, and the folding state is controlled to 11mm, and the full unfolding is only 5.4mm. Coupled with Huawei's use of lightweight materials such as titanium alloy on the fuselage, the weight of the whole machine is controlled at 255g.
This thickness and weight has been comparable to the film wearing shell of the iPhone 13 Pro Max, folding screen mobile phone can finally fight with the traditional bar machine to fight for thinness, which is undoubtedly a milestone for the improvement of daily use experience. In addition, when folding, the left and right sides just form a symmetrical U-shaped curved structure, which brings a fit that is much higher than other competitors.
On the traditional problem of folding screen mobile phones - creases, thanks to the larger bend radius of the external folding scheme to reduce the bending force, and Huawei's unique double rotor wing hinge, in most use scenarios, the Mate Xs 2 can make the crease almost invisible.
Of course, the outer folding mobile phone due to the folding of the screen bend is exposed to the outside as a border, anti-drop, anti-scratch ability or can not be compared with the inner folding mobile phone, although Huawei claims to do a composite multilayer screen structure to strengthen the impact resistance, but the use is still recommended to be more careful, light to hold and put.
2, the screen experience to go further
Mate Xs 2 is equipped with a BOE diamond-like flexible OLED screen, which supports 120Hz refresh rate, display clarity, screen transparency compared with the previous generation has been significantly improved, while the folding structure also makes the large and small screens share the same screen, with a completely consistent display effect.
In terms of large-screen application experience, Hongmeng OS has adapted most commonly used APPS to parallel horizons, and applications that are not adapted can also adjust the display ratio in the settings, and a small number of APPS have made special optimizations for the layout of text and pictures in the application.
Because the screen ratio of Mate Xs 2 after unfolding is close to 1:1 square, it is not very suitable for using a large screen to browse 18:9 or 21:9 ratio video, and there will be a large area of black bars on the top and bottom; it is very comfortable to look at some 4:3 ratio of the old fan, and the experience of reading novels and PDF documents is not worse than that of tablets.
3. Slightly defective performance and image
Compared with the excellent structural design and large-screen experience, Mate Xs 2 configuration in all aspects of the current folding screen flagship team is not too top-notch, such as some users criticize it for using snapdragon 888 4G chip, for me 4G or 5G daily use experience perception is not particularly large, but snapdragon 888 itself slightly higher power consumption plus the impact of screen folding on heat dissipation, daily use from time to time there is a sense of warmth is real.
In addition, the power consumption of the Snapdragon 888 plus the high-resolution large screen is still affecting the battery life experience, if the use of the large screen is more frequent, two charges a day may be inevitable. Fortunately, the Mate Xs 2 comes with a 66W fast charge, and it only takes 41 minutes to charge a 4600mAh battery from 1%.
In terms of photography, limited by the volume of modules that can be accommodated in the side space, the camera parameters of the Mate Xs 2 (50 million main camera without OIS, 13 million ultra-wide angle and 8 million 3.5 times telephoto) are slightly worse even compared to the standard version of the P50, and the consistency of the three-shot white balance needs to be improved, and this 3.5 times telephoto has a remarkable performance in terms of composition impact and picture quality.
4. The secret of the success of the Mate Xs 2
These days I happened to see a data, Mate Xs 2 alone in Jingdong's monthly sales have exceeded 9400 units, more than the previous three more popular competitors OPPO Find N, vivo X Fold and Glory Magic V, which in addition to Huawei's brand appeal and starting price of 9999 yuan, I think the excellent product force is also a factor that boosts its hot sales.
Compared with the X Fold of vivo before, Mate Xs 2 does not have the latest Snapdragon 8 chip, no fingerprint under the screen, lack of hover function, image configuration is slightly inferior, but it has made the ultimate thin and light form, the folding screen in the small screen state of the use experience to a new height, the same can win the favor of consumers, which is also worth continuing to develop folding screen friends to learn.
