Huawei Mate X2 with Foldable Display and Kirin 9000 processor, Launched in China

Huawei has finally launched Huawei Mate X2 in China on 22nd February. The phone adopts a folding design just like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, but it is more expensive. The starting price of Huawei Mate X2 in China is 17,999 Yuan (around NPR 321,175) for a 256GB variant, where the 512GB variant will set you back 18,999 Yuan (around NPR 339018). The phone is Huawei’s third generation of foldable phone.

Huawei Mate X2 Overview 

Huawei Mate X – the first foldable phone from the brand – and Huawei Mate XS have an out-folding design, and now the newly launched Huawei Mate X2 adopts an in-folding approach. It has given great attention to most of the details, from the display to the folding techniques.

Design and Build Quality

The phone flaunts an 8-inches primary OLED screen of 2200 x 2480 pixels, folding like a book: it comes as a standard smartphone and turns into a tablet-style device. Once you fold the phone, a separate external 6.45 inches OLED display of 1160 x 2700 pixels appears. Both of the displays have a 90Hz refresh rate. There is no notch in the 8-inches FullView Display, thus giving an uninterrupted view.

The phone has a perfect fold without any gap between the two sides. As per Huawei’s claim, the multi-dimensional hinge made using forging techniques and innovative materials conceal the hinge, giving a flawless look.

The phone’s wedge shape gives an extra edge, with the thinnest part being about 4.4 mm, which ultimately provides a more comfortable grip as the center of gravity is closer to where you hold the phone.

A fingerprint scanner is side-mounted. The smartphone also has an IR blaster and NFC. Huawei Mate X2 has four color variants: Pink, Black, White, and Blue. The phone weighs 295 grams.

Performance 

Huawei Mate X2 features a Kirin 9000 5G processor coupled with 8GB of RAM, 256GB, or 512 GB of storage. The internal storage is expandable. 24-cores Mali-G78 GPU handles the graphics processing. Similarly, the chipset supports 5G connectivity and has fast processing speeds. 

Multitasking is possible using Smart Multi-window, where you can open more than one window at the same time.

The phone boots Android 10 on top of EMUI 11. As expected, the phone does not have Google Support. Huawei also announced its own operating system – Harmony OS, and Huawei Mate 2 is eligible for this upgrade. According to Huawei, most of the apps in China are optimized for foldable phones, and thus the phone is excellent for productivity and entertainment.

Camera

The rear camera sports a quad-camera setup, featuring a 50MP primary camera, a 16MP ultra-wide camera, a 12MP telephoto lens (3x optical zoom), and an 8MP periscope zoom lens (10x optical zoom).

Looking at all the previous offerings from Huawei, we can expect the phone to have excellent picture quality. The phone has an image resolution of up to 8192 x 6144 pixels.

For handling the selfies, the phone has a 16 MP sensor in a pill-shaped notch. Selfie camera supports up to 4608 x 3456 pixels for images, while the videos are recordable up to 2512 x 1080 pixels.

Videos from the Huawei Mate X2 rear camera are recordable up to 3840 x 2160 pixels, supporting 1080p @960 fps ultra-slow motion.

Battery

The smartphone packs a 4,500 mAh battery that supports 55W fast charging with a Huawei SuperCharge cable and charger.

Huawei Mate X2 Specifications

Huawei Mate X2 Price in Nepal and Availability

Huawei is set to release the phone from 25th February in China for 17,999 Yuan for the 8/256GB variant. The 8/512GB variant’s price is 18,999 Yuan. The news for the global availability of the phone is yet to arrive. We can expect the price for Huawei Mate X2 to be NPR 3,40,000 for 256GB and NPR 3,50,000 for 512GB in Nepal

So, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 has a new rival. The phone is similar, but Huawei Mate X2 is comparatively expensive.