Huawei Launches Mate X2, Foldable Display, Periscope Cameras, 5G

Huawei has launched Mate X2, the company’s latest foldable phone at an event in China. It comes with cool specifications and awesome battery life.

Mate X2 comes with an 8-inch OLED screen on the inside with 90Hz refresh rate, 180Hz touch sampling rate and a 6.45-inch external OLED screen with 240Hz touch sampling rate.

Huawei Mate X2

The internal panel supports DCI-P3 colors, the external one does not. The external one wins out in terms of touch sampling rate, 240Hz vs. 180Hz.

The inner screen boasts the industry’s first “magnetically-controlled nano optical layer”. That’s a fancy way of saying it minimizes light reflection and glare (reflectivity is below 1.5%, compared to 5% or higher for the Galaxy Z Fold2).

The Huawei Mate X2 is powered by the Kirin 9000 chipset, runs on Android 10 with EMUI 11 on top, but it will be the first phone to get HarmonyOS is April, said the company. The phone has 8 GB of RAM plus 256 or 512 GB of storage.

It is housed by a 4500mAh (2250mAh x 2 ) battery with supports for  55W wired fast charging.

Huawei Mate X2

Highlight Specifications of Huawei Mate X2

Display: 6.45-inch (2700 x 1160 pixels) flexible OLED display with 90Hz refresh rate outer display, 8-inch (2480 x 2200 pixels) OLED 8:7.1 display with 90Hz refresh rate when unfolded, DCI-P3 color gamut

Chipset: HUAWEI Kirin 9000 5G (1 x Cortex-A77 3.13 GHz + 3 x Cortex-A77 2.54 GHz + 4 x Cortex-A55 2.05 GHz) processor with ARM Mali-G78 MP24 GPU,Dual Big Core + Tiny Core NPUs (Neural-network Processing Unit)

Storage: 8GB RAM, 256GB / 512GB storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with NM card

Operating System: Android 10 with EMUI 11, HMS

SIM: Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / NM card)

Cameras: 50MP RYYB Ultra Vision camera with f/1.9 aperture, OIS, 16MP Ultra Wide Angle lens with f/2.2 aperture, 2.5cm macro, 12MP Telephoto lens with f/2.4 aperture, 3x optical zoom, OIS, 8MP periscope telephoto camera with 10X zoom, up to 100x digital zoom, OIS

Front Camera: 16MP front camera with f/2.2 aperture

Sensor: Side-mounted fingerprint sensor

Dual Speakers

Dimensions: 161.8 x 74.6 (145.8 unfolded) x 4.4 mm to 8.2 mm (unfolded) 13.6 to 14.7 mm (folded); Weight: 295g

Network: 5G, Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ax (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 5.2 LE, GPS (L1 + L5 dual-band), NavIC, NFC, USB 3.1 Type-C (GEN1)

Battery: 4500mAh (2250mAh x 2 ) battery with 55W SuperCharge

Pricing

The HUAWEI Mate X2 comes in Black, White, Crystal Blue and Crystal Pink colors, is priced at 17,999 yuan (US$ 2783) for the 256GB storage version and the 512GB storage version costs 18,999 yuan (US$ 2938).

It will go on sale starting from China from February 25.

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