Folding screen phones are very different, Huawei Mate X is a new species of technology

Nowadays, the mobile phone screen has become the most frequent interactive window for users. Its importance is self-evident. A high-value and meaningful mobile phone screen can bring a pleasing viewing experience and subvert your experience when watching movies and playing games. No wonder, in recent years, the innovation of mobile phone screens has become the key to the competition among mobile phone manufacturers. In 2019, in addition to the vigorous 5G mobile phones, it is also worth paying attention to the folding screen mobile phone with a new form design. It has successfully broken through the innovation latitude and expanded the screen from two-dimensional space to three-dimensional space. It is not an exaggeration to call the folding screen mobile phone a "new species of technology."

When it comes to foldable phones, the most popular ones on the market are the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X. Although both are foldable phones, there are big differences between them.

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1. Innovation requires both “ ease of expansion and contraction + experience upgrade ”

As for whether it is better for foldable screen mobile phones to fold inward or outward, if we think about the problem from the essence, we may find the answer: no matter how it is folded, it must be convenient to use.

Huawei Mate X adopts an asymmetric outward folding design. When folded, it consists of a 6.6-inch main screen and a 6.38-inch secondary screen. At this time, the user experience of Huawei Mate X is no different from that of mainstream full-screen mobile phones; when unfolded, the screen will directly expand from 6.6 inches to an 8-inch large screen, which can be said to be a seamless transition. Samsung Galaxy Fold, which adopts an inward folding solution, can only be used for simple tasks and status display because the front screen is too small after folding; and if you want to unfold it, you actually switch the small screen to another large screen, which creates a sense of disconnection in visual smoothness. The comparison between the two shows that the latter obviously did not think clearly about the usage scenarios and true meaning of foldable screen mobile phones when designing.

2. Innovation that does “subtraction” is more eye-catching

In the design of foldable screen mobile phones, how to give full play to the advantages of the folding form is a question worth thinking about. In this regard, Huawei Mate X is also better than Galaxy Fold. For example, in the design of the camera solution, Huawei Mate X cleverly uses its external folding design and solves the problem of front and rear camera with only one camera solution.

Whether unfolded or folded, Huawei Mate X users can take photos normally; when taking selfies, just fold and flip the phone and use the secondary screen on the back of the phone to take selfies. At the same time, Huawei Mate X also supports the secondary screen collaboration function, so both parties can see the picture in the viewfinder.

On the other hand, Samsung Galaxy Fold, in order to meet all the photography needs of users based on the inward folding solution, has to stack the number of cameras, with 1 on the front, 3 on the back, and 2 more when unfolded. The 6 cameras cannot work together and even cause the large screen to have bangs, destroying the integrity of the screen. To sum it up, the logic of Samsung Galaxy Fold's design is very confusing.

3. The ultimate meaning of innovation lies in " reconstructing the experience "

In addition to providing a wider field of view experience in hardware, foldable screens also need to be adapted for functional expansion at the software level to give full play to the advantages of foldable screens.

In this regard, Huawei Mate X has also done a lot of homework. Huawei Mate X has a complete set of folding application interaction system. For the large screen form, Huawei Mate X supports two functions: split screen mode and "parallel horizon", which can effectively utilize the screen area and improve usage efficiency.

With the split screen function, users can use two different applications on the large screen of Huawei Mate X at the same time, for example, they can watch videos on iQiyi while chatting on WeChat. The parallel vision experience is even more novel. Users can also realize dual-screen operation in one APP and open different levels of pages of the application. For example, when using WeChat, you can use half of the screen to chat and the other half to browse Moments, which is very convenient and practical.

It is worth mentioning that Huawei has also created an open ecological alliance for foldable screen applications, which is actively promoting the adaptation and improvement of the interactive experience from small screens to large screens, and leading the construction of the foldable screen mobile phone application ecosystem. It adapts to large screens for different categories such as social, shopping, and games, standardizes the interactive logic, and provides a cloud testing platform.

Summarize

While taking into account the new form and practicality, Huawei Mate X also brings a new smart life experience. Its design is obviously more mature and can be said to be an innovative model of current foldable screen mobile phones.