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"What is the use of a three-fold mobile phone?"
After the release of Huawei Mate XT, the questions and answers in Little Red Book swarmed together. The only certainty is: it is definitely useful, what’s the use, and then.
At the beginning, I was planted with grass by this video.
At the press conference on the afternoon of September 10th, Mate XT, the world’s first mass-produced three-fold mobile phone, finally officially appeared. Judging from the hot pre-sale and the highest speculation price of 70,000 yuan in the second-hand market, "whether the market accepts" and "whether the demand is real" no longer need self-proof-the remaining question is simple and direct: Is it worth paying 20,000 yuan or more for this new type of mobile phone as an early adopter of technology?
Some folds are cute. Giphy
Some folds are delicious. Giphy
Look at the configuration and price section first:
Mate XT has three versions: 16 GB+256 GB, 16 GB+512 GB and 16 GB+1 TB. The prices are 19,999 yuan, 21,999 yuan and 23,999 yuan respectively; The color is divided into black and red, which supports Tiantong satellite communication.
Some folding is very expensive … Huawei
Such a big screen in case you get a picture of your face …
The reason why the prefix "mass production" should be added is because before Huawei, there were already three-fold "concept machines" including Samsung, TCL and even the "king of African mobile phones". Some manufacturers even release two or four different forms of "three-fold" concept machines every year to maintain the sense of industry existence …
But by the end of 2024, all these are still at the stage of "concept"; And the real mass-produced three-fold mobile phone, the world is still only Mate XT. Therefore, at the press conference, Yu Chengdong once again shouted "Huawei depends on the folding screen", a classic slogan when Mate X, Huawei’s first-generation folding screen mobile phone, was released.
Yes, the other three folds you remember can’t be mass-produced … Huawei?
The mobile phone that can be folded into three stacks has a screen size of 10.2 inches in the unfolded state, which is equivalent to the traditional tablet computer, and is known as "the largest folding screen mobile phone in the world"; In the unfolded form, the thickness is only 3.6 mm, and it is also known as "the thinnest folding screen mobile phone in the world".
Because the current mainstream scheme of triple folding is zigzag folding, in fact, both "inward folding" and "outward folding" hinge designs are involved in a mobile phone. Huawei Mate XT uses a hinge system called "Tiangong" to realize internal and external folding for the first time. In fact, Huawei has gone through a "detour" in two kinds of hinge structure technologies in its early years, and now it has become a rare technical reserve.
The unavoidable topic of hinge technology: Huawei
How can folding screens evolve?
The complexity (and charm) of folding screen lies in that with the increase of screen and folding number, the strength, endurance, system application and creativity of multi-screen switching combination of mobile phone (body+screen) must be matched.
The huge screen brings more extreme requirements for screen strength. One of the biggest problems in the traditional double-folding mobile phone so far is the lack of screen strength. This time, Huawei used an ultramicro-folded organic material and a composite super-tough laminated structure composed of non-Newtonian fluid material and UTG glass, claiming to improve the impact resistance of Mate XT screen by 30%.
The bigger the screen, the greater the responsibility.
Battery life is another problem. Mate XT has a 5600mAh silicon-carbon negative battery in the fuselage, and a three-cell parallel design is customized according to the three fuselage spaces, which supports 66W wired super fast charging and 50W wireless fast charging.
As a response to the most popular concept of AI mobile phone, Huawei Mate XT mainly demonstrated a number of AI picture functions this time: for example, the album supports AI elimination, AI expansion and AI cloud enhancement, etc.-not fancy but still practical.
Before the release, what was most imagined in the three-fold application scenario was "the appearance of the mobile phone, the soul of the computer", so a "easy-to-use physical keyboard" replaced "a good-looking mobile phone case" and became the first accessory that the three-fold mobile phone needed first.
The computer in the pocket is really Huawei.
Released with the mobile phone, there is a bracket protective case that allows Huawei Mate XT to rotate at 270 degrees and multiple angles; More interestingly, it is a special folding touch keyboard accessory, which can be easily carried along with Mate XT, giving it a chance to truly become a "computer in a pocket".
The physical object of this bracket protective shell is also very cool.
From the information of the conference, the biggest worry and challenge is the future production quality control and after-sales. The "three-fold" form has indeed raised the mobile phone technology to an unprecedented complexity, and the "test of time" is indeed more demanding for this form.
You must imagine what the "next generation mobile phone" looks like!
However, from the perspective of the concept of mobile phone, none of the above is the core that the three-fold mobile phone really deserves such high attention.
Behind the three-fold hardware and expensive price, smartphone manufacturers are exploring the new form of mobile phones exhaustively-folding screen and AI, which may be the answer, or not all.
Once the imagination of folding screen was just like this, Giphy
Huawei had a good time in the first half of 2024. According to IDC data, Huawei has regained the first place in the mobile phone market in China, and its mobile phone shipments have doubled, which has become the main driving force for Huawei’s overall performance growth. According to the consulting data of public research institutions, Huawei’s share in the folding screen market in the first half of the year was as high as 42%, and the high-end market with a price of more than 10,000 yuan accounted for 67%.
In other words, in China, at least one of every two flagship folding screen phones will be Huawei.
Before the "optimal answer" appears, only by more extreme attempts and explorations can mobile phone manufacturers take the lead in the next era (just like the alternation from physical keys to touch screens)-this is the product philosophy of the top mobile phone manufacturers in the industry at present, who are betting on three-fold mobile phones one after another.
In this Huawei conference, in addition to the attribute of "three folds", the concept of "super terminal" was also mentioned many times: with the gradual improvement of HarmonyOS’s system ecology, the native HarmonyOS App ecology has completely covered the top 5,000 mobile phone applications, and it is no longer compatible with Android App. A larger screen and a "HarmonyOS device" with brand-new interactive logic are indeed capable of becoming the smart portal of the next era.
"Three" is by no means the end of folding numbers.
Even though Tri-Folding is a "masterpiece" of Huawei’s folding screen mobile phone technology at this stage, it does not mean that it will be the end of the evolution of smart phones.
The number three will not be the ultimate in the form of folding screen mobile phones.
Author: Alain actinium lanthanum
Original title: "Holding a three-fold mobile phone, I can pretend to read the memorial again."
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