Yesterday, Huawei Consumer Business CEO Yu Richard unveiled the company’s new folding phone named as Mate Xs, the successor phone to Mate X. A product page of the Mate Xs has appeared on Jingdong Mall (JD.com). The device is now up for reservations on China’s retailer site. The listing states that the phone will be available for purchase from March 5.
Huawei had introduced its first phone with a folding screen, the Huawei Mate X at 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC) tech exhibition. The successor phone i.e. the Mate Xs has debuted with a more powerful chipset and improved design. JD.com seems to have bagged the first online test right for Mate Xs this time.
Though the release date for the phone in the Chinese market hasn’t been officially announced, the JD listing states that the phone will go on sale in China on March 5 10:08am (local time). The pricing of Huawei’s new foldable phone for Chinese markets is currently under the wraps.
Huawei Mate Xs specifications and features
The Huawei Mate Xs that is priced at 2,499 euros comes with 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB of onboard storage. The processor has been upgraded from a Kirin 980 to Kirin 990 that confers it an integrated 5G modem. It runs on EMUI 10 based on the open-source version of Android 10 but would use its own ecosystem called HMS (Huawei Mobile services). The device lacks support for GMS (Google Mobile Services).
The Mate Xs arrives with a quad-layer construction for its screen, a more robust design over its predecessor Mate X. This includes two opposed layers of polyamide film above a flexible OLED display. A softer polymer layer below this would offer a cushioning effect and a final layer below this will connect to the main body of the phone. Huawei has also worked on the design of the hinge to make it more smoother and durable as compared to Mate X. The Mate Xs promises to allow use of three apps at once, one on the left side of the display, one on the right, and a third in a floating window. Additionally, it will allow for simultaneously opening two instances of the same app.
With an 8-inch screen that folds from the outside and a main display that measures 6.6 inches, other features of the phone seem to match that of the original Mate X. Like its predecessor, the camera hardware includes a main 40-megapixel f/1.8 camera, an 8-megapixel f/2.4 telephoto camera, a 16-megapixel f/2.2 ultrawide camera, and a 3D depth-sensing camera. The battery life too hasn’t been upgraded from 4,500mAh that Mate X had arrived with.
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