Hey what’s up? Sami here. Today we are going to take a quick look of the Mate X2,
Huawei’s newest foldable phone. Unlike its previous Mate X foldables had their displays
on the outside - the Mate X2 has it on the inside. When you unfold it, it turns from a 'standard'
phone into a tablet-style device. For the primary display it measures 8.01 inches diagonally,
with a resolution of 2480 x 2200 and a 90Hz refresh rate. The other screen is 6.45 inches,
with a 2700 x 1160 resolution and the same refresh rate. One of the big changes for
the Mate X2 I guess is the hinge, it’s very small and well-hidden. When the phone closed,
there's no gap at all between the two sides, so obviously it won’t gather dust that easily.
It's also tapered like a wedge, so it gradually gets thicker.
From my experience, this has some benefits. Firstly, it just lets the camera bump be thicker
without the actual phone getting too chunky, as when closed, the average thickness balances out.
Secondly, the center of mass is on one side, so you can more easily hold the phone with one hand.
Now about the camera. The Huawei Mate X2 has five cameras in total - four in the main array,
and one selfie snapper in a pill-shaped cut-out in the outer display. It looks like you got two
selfie cameras, but actually not, only one 16MP lens. Actually you don’t need to worry about the
selfie camera that much as you can also use the primary camera array for selfies by unfolding the phone.
As for the four main snappers, they are a 50MP primary, 10MP periscope (for 10x optical zoom),
12MP telephoto (for 3x optical zoom) and 16MP ultra-wide camera.
My friend Cymye and I happened to have a chance to take a few photos and videos with the camera system, check out.
Let’s go through other specs of the Mate X2 very fast. The battery capacity is 4,500mAh,
and it supports 55W fast charging. It’s a bit pity as it doesn’t support wireless charging,
but who knows, maybe it supports air charging later like the Oppo X 2021!
The chipset is one of the most powerful ones on the market:
the Kirin 9000, shouldn’t be a problem to handle those heavy games or daily tasks at all.
It also has dual-SIM capabilities. Speaking of 'dual' things, the phone has dual stereo speakers, let’s check out.
I really like it, the sound is full-bodied and crystal clear.
As time is really tight, I don’t have the chance to do an in-depth or explore the phone that much,
but still you will find this kind of foldable phone is fun to interact. Like you can always
do multi-tasks here, always get a new way to view your videos or play games. Maybe for users outside
of mainland China, the biggest issue is Huawei is not able to use Google services, but one good
news is that the Mate X2 will be one of the first units to be able to update to HarmonyOS operating
system. All the best to Huawei! So what do you think about the Mate X2, do you think this is the
future, or the rollable phone like the Oppo X 2021 is the future? Let me know in the comment section.
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