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Huawei’s Mate X2 Foldable Smartphone Unveiled

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Huawei has today unveiled its latest folding phone, the Mate X2. The Mate X2 is the company’s second-gen foldable phone after the Mate X and Mate Xs. It features a revamped design, with an inward folding screen, the opposite of what we saw with the first Mate X and the Mate Xs.

Also, the Mate X2 doesn’t have any camera on the inside. The inward display is an OLED panel that opens up to 8-inches. It has 2480 x 2200 pixel resolution and a high 90HZ refresh rate with a 240Hz touch sampling rate.

The outside display is a standard-size 6.45-inch OLED panel, with the same refresh rate, touch sampling rate, and 2700 x 1160 pixel resolution. The outer display offers a dense PPI of 456, which should offer more clarity than the inner 8-inch panel with 413 PPI.

On the optics, the phone has a quad main camera setup. It includes a 50MP wide-angle, f/1.9 camera with OIS, a 16MP ultra-wide (f/2.2 aperture), a 12MP 3x Optical Zoom Telephoto (OIS, f/2.4 aperture), and an 8MP SuperZoom Camera (OIS, 10x Optical Zoom, f/4.4 aperture, ) with AF.

The selfie camera, found on the outer display, is a 16MP lens.

Huawei’s in-house Kirin 9000 SoC powers the device paired with Mali-G78 GPU. It packs 8GB of memory and 256GB or 512GB of onboard storage.

There’s a 4,500mAh battery with 55W fast charging support – 5W more than Oppo’s recently launched Reno 5.

The Mate X2 was unveiled in China today and will be retailing at 17,999 Yuan(~ $2785, or Ksh 305,000) and 18,999 Yuan(~2940, or $Ksh 322,000) for the 256GB and 512GB model, respectively.

It remains to be seen whether Huawei will unveil this foldable outside China. The first Mate X and Mate Xs were launched in few select markets outside China.

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