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Huawei Mate Xs 2 – is closed

Without domestic distribution, it remains the thinnest bendable mobile exciting demo device.

Exterior, display, hinge

At the dawn of folding screen fashion a Royole Flexpaia Huawei Mate Xa Galaxy Fold is in Motorola Razr he fought not only for formal primacy but for the raison d’être of the poisonous genre. The first-generation pieces simultaneously impressed and left me with something to be desired in terms of assembly and material quality, and the category has evolved tremendously in a few years. Two concepts have emerged: if the panel is tilted inwards, a display must be used on the outside, and a display on the outside.

The Galaxy Z Fold3 and Mate Xs 2 are in the company of each other
The Galaxy Z Fold3 and Mate Xs 2 are in the company of each other [+]

Samsung and the former came out of the race victoriously, but somewhere it must be acknowledged what the first I did it last year for Mate Xs: still operate in a more economical material and financially with a single screen. And just like the Z Fold3 at Samsung has maturedit took the level of Huawei to the outward fold of the Mate Xs 2which is the thinnest on the market foldablehe became. The design advantage is obvious, as the novelty also offers a larger display than the named Galaxy in tablet and phone form, yet has a smaller volume (156.5 x 139.3 x 5.4 mm) and is airier at 255 grams.


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Display test (the table can be expanded)
Measurement Huawei Mate Xs 2 closed Huawei Mate Xs 2 open Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 exterior Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 interior
Diagonal 6.5 inches 7.8 inches 6.2 inches 7.6 inches
Resolution 1176 x 2480 2200 x 2480 832 x 2268 1768 x 2208
Technology 10 bit OLED 10 bit OLED Dynamic AMOLED 2X Foldable Dynamic AMOLED 2X
White brightness 510 / 649 nit 510 / 649 nit 387 / 1080 nit 416 / 1035 nit
White brightness (min.) 1,8 nit 1,8 nit 1,9 nit 1,4 nit
Black brightness 0 nit 0 nit 0 nit 0 nit
Contrast ratio endless endless endless endless
Color temperature 6500 K + manual 6500 K + manual 7022/6578 K + manual 7216/6675 K + manual

How do we measure the display?


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The most telling data, though, is the 10.1mm-thick 75.5mm-wide width, and the 6.5 ”panel isn’t disturbingly narrow, leaving out a 780-bit-sharp 10-bit pixel with 2480 x 1176. The Mate also stops on its own for desktop use when set up and laid down half-open. OLED blacks are perfect, calibration is accurate, light reflection is extremely low and everything is extremely smooth at 120 Hz. When closed, the back also has enough screen space to compose that selfie with the 50 + 13 + 8 megapixel camera bar.

Mate Xs 2 hides the crease pattern more cleverly (left)
Mate Xs 2 hides the crease pattern more cleverly (left) [+]

But the bottom line is 7.8 ”and 2480 x 2200 pixels, but that’s the point. does not seem to: aesthetic wrinkling pattern of the genre in a hinge strip. Only see some traces of the bending mechanism when the screen is off and at the right angle, otherwise it has a cool place that can always be removed on the Fold. Okay: the latter has swallowed the self-timer camera, while here the traditional, punched variety is gaping at 10.7 megapixels. Nevertheless, the Mate’s whole hand is closed and handles with two thumbs open, although the Oppo Find N somewhere still the perfect foldable size.


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But it’s not as thin as the Mate, which also uses titanium alloy and stainless steel, and the Xs 2 closes without a gap with a stable locking mechanism so that it can reopen at the touch of a button, but with two hands. Let’s say you control a tablet with so many limbs, so that’s not a problem. The construction is more precarious only if we try to fold it in the wrong direction, but it is indicated by some healthy flexibility and strong resistance: come on, fold it as planned and you won’t be in trouble!


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While the firmly prominent camera strip with its hardware components throws in the symmetry of the fiberglass, highly adhesive backing, in return, it can grip the Mate well to stay more stable in the human hand than any other bendable on the market. Let’s say they are specifically on the market, but the € 2,000 Huawei will not be sold in Hungary.


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Yet it really shows how cleverly put together the double-wing hinge, and the volume control and fingerprint reader / switch are in the right place. The stereo speaker pair and the tray that accepts two nanoSIMs or one nanoSIM and one nano memory card fit on the thin edges, and the narrow speech speaker and 4600 mAh split battery are cleverly hidden from view.


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The data is pretty tight, say, but at least there’s a 66-watt quick charger in the pack next to the USB-C cable and SIM needle, and the Mate’s four-layer display wears a special foil that shouldn’t be removed or replaced by a Huawei dealer. worth. I will suspect this will be necessary over time, as the panel is protected by an untreated sheet of glass, and since it is folded into a pocket or tabletop, the appearance of scratches is inevitable. While it’s also true that more fragile glass only protects the camera strip, so it could easily be that the softer display on the Xs is more resistant to accidental accidents, although I didn’t stand it for him to test it.

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