Huawei Mate X, the new folding phone that stands up to the Galaxy Fold

The chinese giant Huawei was not going to stare while Samsung wanted to take the vanguard in the market of smartphones and folding phones, so much so that it has been able to give an important blow on the table that would make the Galaxy Fold crumbs in attention to what we have seen today in the presentation enjoyed during the Mobile World Congress of this 2019 held in Barcelona.

We are going to tell you all about the new Huawei Mate X, the phone that comes to face the Samsung Galaxy Fold without fear. So stay with us because we have a lot to tell you about this awesome device.

A totally different design from the Galaxy Fold

The first thing that the Huawei design team wanted to emphasize is differentiation, we are facing a terminal that is inevitably all screen, this is because it is composed of a single OLED display That unfolded is made up of a total of eight inches in size. This time we find a device that folds as if it were the cover of a book. On one side we will have a more pronounced projection where we will find the physical connection of the USB-C and the arrangement of the cameras. This is the first thing that strikes us.

Instead of having a kind of ledge where the cameras are located, as well as having different panels, as Samsung does, which has placed two panels, one strangely small and narrow for when the phone is closed, and another that is the unfolded one, as it closes "inward." This Huawei Mate X folds out, so the screen is always exposed, in fact what you see of the phone with this "folded" is literally the screen. The most curious thing and that also differs from the competition, where it seems that Huawei has taken a good blow on the table at the design level, is the fact that we are left with a total folded thickness of the phone of just 11 millimeters, and this has unbeatable merit. 

Technical characteristics that are not far behind

At the numerical level, it seems that Huawei has not wanted to make so many boasting, we started with a triple sensor camera whose details have not been revealed, we imagine that it is due to the fact that we still have no news of the Huawei P30, the next great phone of the firm Asian and that he would be destined to take the scepter of leader at the photographic level. But not everything was going to be the camera, as we have said we have a fully open 8-inch screenas well as a 6,6-inch screen on the front and a 6,38-inch screen on the rear when folded. This screen does not have a friendly ratio to the naked eye and we leave the so popular panoramic vision far behind, however, will offer a resolution of 2.480 x 2.000 pixels, which is not bad at all.

Meanwhile, at the gross power level Huawei has equipped this Mate X with a processor Kirin 980 already known and designed by the firm itself, supported by 8 GB of RAM that will technically blow up the device. The 5G mobile data technology that is being talked about now could not be missing, totally useless since it has not yet been deployed anywhere in a practical way. At the autonomy level, it also wants to be the leader in folding telephones, we find a total of 4.500 mAh that can be charged by adapters up to 55 W without wasting their power, thus offering a total load equal to or greater than the 85% in just 30 minutes, a real madness.

Many unknowns still

We have many things to know to assess the final purchase of such a device, it will be launched in Europe by 2.299 euros for its version of 512 GB of storage, although it is assumed that there will be different versions of storage. He has had the audacity to say that he would be available in april, on dates very similar to those announced by Samsung for its Galaxy Fold, is this device so far along?

Another section in which we have enjoyed excessively little information is that of the software, Samsung has made it clear that it is working with Google to make a version of Android fully compatible with these folding phones that are so much talked about now, however, Huawei has MIUI its main enemy that could make this device fail, We hope that the unknowns at the software level will be cleared in the coming weeks or during the same # MWC19 to keep you informed, but the reality is that right now what raises the most doubts is precisely the way in which MIUI is going to be implemented to such a large screen system, which will require extremely fluid operation in order not to penalize excessively user experience.


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