Huawei Mate X is a new species. You think foldable phones are simple!

In the mobile phone industry in 2019, foldable screen phones are a major keyword. Whether it is the foldable design or the innovative experience that combines the advantages of mobile phones and tablets, it makes people feel the progress brought by technology. Among the foldable screen phones currently on the market, Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold are the most eye-catching.

Huawei Mate X

However, although both are folding screen phones, Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold also have great differences in specific design. Huawei Mate X adopts a single screen external folding method, while Samsung Galaxy Fold adopts a dual screen internal folding method. Different design methods are of course a good thing, which will make folding screen phones more differentiated in appearance, and the mobile phone industry may once again see a hundred flowers blooming. However, different designs also have advantages and disadvantages. Comparing Huawei Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold, it can be found that Huawei Mate X is obviously more mature in folding form, camera solution, application interaction and other aspects.

Huawei Mate X

In terms of screen design, Huawei Mate X's single-screen folding design uses only one screen. When folded, the large screen becomes two screens located on the front and back of the body, and the front looks like an ordinary mobile phone. When fully unfolded, an 8-inch 2480 x 2200 OLED display appears in front of you.

Samsung Galaxy Fold is equipped with two screens, a small screen is located on one side of the outer body, which is used when folded, and the other large screen only appears when the body is unfolded.

The difference in experience brought by the two different designs is that the Huawei Mate X's screen content transition is more compact and smooth between folding and unfolding, while the Samsung Galaxy Fold's screen content transitions from the small screen to the large screen, and users need to flip it to watch.

Samsung Galaxy Fold

In comparison, the design of Huawei Mate X also makes its screen size larger than Samsung Galaxy Fold when folded or unfolded. This leads to a question: is the foldable screen mobile phone a "superposition" of mobile phones and tablets or a "fusion" with a completely new usage logic? I think the answer should be the latter.

Although the folding design of Samsung Galaxy Fold is also eye-catching, people will eventually lament that it has too strong a sense of superposition in terms of design and hardware. Thinking about future human-computer interaction should not stop at simply splicing two existing things. As a new species between traditional smartphones and tablets, the design of Huawei Mate X is obviously more worthy of reference for other mobile phone manufacturers.

Huawei Mate X

In terms of the mobile phone imaging system, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is equipped with a total of 6 cameras, one front camera above the external screen, the other two front cameras in the upper right corner of the inner screen, and the rear three cameras are located on the outer half of the body without the screen.

Huawei Mate X is equipped with a Leica quad-camera module, which uses only one camera solution to solve almost all photo-taking scenarios, including selfies. Whether the phone is unfolded or folded, it can still take photos. The secondary screen collaboration function also allows the photographer and the subject to see the viewfinder at the same time.

Huawei Mate X

Samsung Galaxy Fold has to stack more cameras due to the poor rationality of the folding screen design, and the 6 cameras cannot work together, and the bangs destroy the integrity of the large screen. Therefore, Huawei Mate X is not only better in camera solution design, but also has obvious advantages over Samsung Galaxy Fold in imaging capabilities and screen integrity.

In terms of application interaction, Huawei Mate X supports two functions: split screen mode and "parallel horizon". Split screen mode allows you to open two applications on the large screen, such as chatting on WeChat while watching iQiyi videos. "Parallel horizon" is a split screen display of a single application. For example, when we search for a product on Taobao, Huawei Mate X can use half of the screen to display the searched product list, and the other side of the screen to display the details page of a single product, which can effectively avoid frequent web page jumps and improve usage efficiency.

Huawei Mate X

In general, the design of foldable screen mobile phones can certainly make people feel amazing in the sea of ​​​​mobile phones with serious homogeneity in appearance, but under the appearance, it shows the thinking and imagination of mobile phone manufacturers on the "future human-computer interaction". Huawei Mate X's folding form innovation, camera solution innovation, and application interaction innovation for the new form of foldable screen mobile phones all reflect its deep thinking on the "new species". It is based on this thinking that Huawei Mate X can be called a revolutionary product of the enlightenment era.