Huawei Mate X2 announced with the camera, design and other specs
Huawei is one of the best brands of smartphones. Huawei announced its folding flagship Huawei Mate X2. Let’s see the specs of Huawei Mate X2.
Display
Let’s see the display and body measurement of Huawei Mate X2. The inner display measures 8” in diagonal and has a squarish aspect ratio of 8:7.1 and a resolution of 2480 x 2200. The external screen is 6.45” in diagonal and has a 21:9 aspect ratio.
Both screens are OLED panels with 90Hz refresh rate. 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). There’s no ultra thin glass, however.
Huawei Mate X2
The hinge design allows the phone to be closed seamlessly (i.e. without a gap). Inside, the OLED panel forms a teardrop shape to minimize creasing. Huawei used advanced for its hinge design – Zirconium-based liquid metal and carbon fiber panels – which helped reduce weight. The whole thing is still pretty heavy at 295g, however. Still, most of that weight is at the thickest part, so you can still comfortably hold the phone without it tipping over. You can close it with one hand.
Processor
The Huawei Mate X2 is powered by the Kirin 9000 chipset. Unlike the competing Snapdragon and Exynos chips, this one is fabbed at TSMC’s 5 nm foundry. It has four Cortex-A77 cores (one of which runs at 3.13 GHz) and four A55, plus a Mali-G78 MP24 GPU.
OS and Storage
Interestingly, the official specs list the OS as EMUI 11.0 based on Android 10. We were expecting HarmonyOS out of the box. Anyway, the phone has 8 GB of RAM plus 256 or 512 GB of storage.
Camera
The quad-camera on the back (co-developed with Leica) is built around the 50MP main module with a 1/1.28” RYYB sensor. It has an f/1.9 aperture and supports OIS and can record 4K video. Thanks to the second screen, it can be used to shoot selfies too.
Next up is the 10x periscope lens (f/4.4) with OIS and an 8 MP RYYB sensor. It offers 20x hybrid zoom and up to 100x digital zoom. There’s also a mid-range zoom module with a 12MP sensor, 3x optical magnification, f/2.4 aperture and OIS.
Huawei Mate X2 Purple
An ultrawide module is available too with a 16MP sensor. It doubles as a macro camera as well (2.5 cm distance). The exact focal lengths for the lenses are 17mm, 23mm, 70mm, and 240mm.
There is only one “front” camera and it is on the secondary display. This means that the large inner display is free of holes and notches, but also that you can’t use it for video calls. Also, there’s a fingerprint reader mounted on the side, which is handy if you need biometric authentication while the phone is opened.
SIM & connectivity
And a 5G modem, of course. Huawei carefully planned the antenna placement so that you get a strong signal regardless of how you hold the phone (and whether it’s closed or opened). In typical Huawei fashion, this is a dual SIM phone where the second SIM slot can accept an NM memory card.
Battery
It has a 4500mAh battery. It sports Super Fast charging at 55W using the supplied adapter.
External accessories
The retail package is actually pretty well stocked with a USB-C cable, USB-C headset (there’s no 3.5 mm jack), a leather protective case and screen protectors pre-applied on both screens.
Pricing
The Huawei Mate X2 will be available in China from February 25. The 256GB version will cost CNY 18,000, the 512GB version is CNY 19,000. It will be available online and in brick-and-mortar stores. No word on whether it will be available outside of China, however. Even so, the prices work out to $2,780/€2,300 and $2,940/€2,420, for reference.
A number of accessories will be available for the X2. One is a protective case with a built-in kickstand, another is a clever car mount that can hold the phone in both folded and unfolded states.
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