On the evening of February 24, Huawei held a new product conference in Barcelona, Spain, and launched its first 5g mobile phone, mate x, priced at 2299 euros (17498 yuan, 1 euro = 7.6112 yuan), 8 + 512gb version. Huawei announced that the mobile phone will be launched in mid-2019. So what is the experience of this folding screen mobile phone?
5g + folding screen! Amazing world
5g and folding screen are undoubtedly the hottest two elements of the 2019 world mobile communication conference. Huawei combines these two elements. Oppo and Xiaomi also announced their 5g mobile phone products before, and Samsung's Galaxy fold was the folding screen. At the conference, Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's consumer business, said confidently: "without any modesty, Huawei mate x is the biggest innovation in the industry!"
Let's see how amazing Huawei mate x is?
Feature 1: folding screen, 0-180 degrees free fold
Huawei mate x adopts a flexible folding screen and a foldable full screen design, which can be expanded up to 8 inches. It has unlimited extension vision. Turn it over slightly, and it will be a 6.6-inch screen that can be controlled by one hand. The other screen size is 6.38 inch.
Huawei's original design of the folding screen's rotating shaft adopts the eagle wing type folding scheme, which can achieve 0-180 degrees of free folding, opening and closing with degrees; the whole machine is light, thin and qualitative, the thickness of the single side of the fuselage is 5.4mm, after opening, it is flattened by 6.9mm, and after folding, it is 11mm, there is no gap in the middle, and there is no corner cutting on the main screen. At the same time, Huawei mate x also brings a new interactive experience -- split screen interaction, which divides the expanded operation interface into two parts, so that the two tasks can run synchronously.
Yu Chengdong disclosed that mate x will not leave a gap in the middle when it is closed. This is Huawei's innovative hinge design. In order to make it seamless when it is closed, engineers have studied for three years to solve this problem. There are more than 100 parts in this folding chain.
Yu Chengdong pointed out that in different scenarios, people often have different needs for mobile phones. Commuter value light and portable, while office entertainment want to have a screen as large as possible. In response to user pain points, Huawei R & D engineers began to consider building a "transformer" to change the screen size by folding. Starting from the consumer demand scenario, they chose the folding scheme based on the flexible screen. Folding out makes full use of screen resources, and can effectively carry out two screen interaction.
At the same time, Huawei mate x also sets the screen scale in the folded state to 19.5:9, which is consistent with the screen scale of mainstream straight board mobile phones. In the expanded state, the screen proportion of Huawei mate x is 8:7.1, and the large screen in the flat form has a shocking visual effect.
This design needs to be used more carefully, because the screen faces outward directly, so it is another test to fight against falling. But Huawei has designed a protective case for its delay.
Feature 2: 5g chip, one 1GB movie can be downloaded in 3 seconds
This is Huawei's first 5g mobile phone, which has two card slots, one can support 2G, 3G, 4G, 5g, and the second card slot can support 4G network. Yu Chengdong said that this is the fastest 5g mobile phone in the world, and relevant technologies are developed by Huawei.
In terms of specific coefficients, Huawei mate x is equipped with Huawei's first 7Nm 5g multi-mode chip Baron 5000 + Kirin 980; 4.6gbps peak download rate, 1GB movie download in 3 seconds, and supports two kinds of 5g networking NSA / SA.
Feature 3: charging for 30 minutes 85%, selling price 17500 yuan
The 'fast' of this mobile phone is reflected in the charging. Its wired charging power has reached 55W, which is the fastest wired charging standard at present. Fast charging, 30 minutes charging 85%, charging speed is nearly 6 times that of similar products; two built-in batteries, with capacity of 4500mAh, have a strong endurance for a whole day.
In terms of configuration, mate X has 8g of running memory plus 512g of storage capacity. It costs 2299 euros to kill the current market price of mobile phones.
Feature 4: more secure protection of privacy, image smart photography
In terms of security settings, mate x is more private and secure under 5g settings.
Among them, the user identity information encryption, in 2G / 3G / 4G, the user identity information (Supi) is very easy to be attacked. In 5g, the user identity information will be sent in the form of encryption, which can prevent attacks and prevent identity from being copied.
Support complete protection mechanism: in 2G / 3G / 4G, the communication between the user and the network can not provide integrity protection, and the attacker can still tamper with the user's communication content. 5g has supported the integrity protection mechanism of user interface to prevent such tampering attacks.
In terms of consumer focused photography, the rear camera of Huawei mate x can be used as the front camera, providing a new way of self shooting.
Why is Huawei mate X so expensive?
With such dazzling speed, appearance and configuration, Huawei mate x is not cheap. It costs 2299 euros, equivalent to 17498 yuan!
The price of mate x is not only crushing the 599 Euro millet mix 35g version, but also more expensive than the 5g mobile phone just launched by Samsung. According to reports, Samsung Electronics said on February 20 that it will launch a folding 5g smart phone Galaxy fold, starting at $1980 (13288 yuan).
Huawei's end-to-end 5g solution is more than a year ahead of the market, according to the third-party evaluation results, Huawei chairman Liang Hua said in a recent media interview. At present, Huawei has signed more than 30 5g commercial contracts around the world, delivered more than 30000 5g base stations, and holds more than 2570 5g patents.
"Huawei's leading position in 5g is due to our early and continuous investment in 5g research and technology innovation and R & D. Huawei has invested 5g in R & D since 2009. In fact, at the beginning of 4G network deployment, we are thinking about what the next generation of wireless network technology is like, that is, 5g. 'said Liang Hua.
He pointed out that 'the company has made an important contribution to the global 5g standard. At the same time, we actively carried out key technology innovation, such as 5g base station chip, MIMO supporting various wireless access technologies and blade base station technology, which made Huawei take the lead in 5g technology field. These technological innovations are the result of our continuous increase in R & D investment and cooperation with industry and customers. '
5g and flexible OLED industrial chain are expected to benefit
The release of mate x is a great boost for Huawei itself and 5g and flexible screen industry chain.
At present, more and more mobile phone manufacturers are making efforts to fold screen mobile phones. Before Huawei released folding screen mobile phones, Qunzhi consulting predicted that the global scale of folding screen mobile phones will be about 900000 in 2019. Whether the industry's shipping volume can break the forecast depends on the performance of domestic manufacturers. Guojin securities predicts that Huawei will ship about 200000 folding screen mobile phones in 2019.
In the view of industry insiders, with more and more mobile phone manufacturers pushing folding screen mobile phones, the flexible OLED industry chain will benefit, and domestic panel manufacturers will also usher in development opportunities.