Huawei just announced that it will be launching the Mate X2, the successor to it’s radical foldable Mate X on Feb 22. We think it will be revolutionary.
Huawei might just revolutionise the tech industry, once again. For those of you in the dark, the Chinese company has always offered top quality products on the bleeding edge of design and innovation. From its telephoto cameras to its foldables, Huawei has time and again set the bar when it comes to both consumer tech as well as concepts. One such product was the Huawei Mate X, the company’s first proper foldable, which was also available to consumers. As of Wednesday, the company has announced the launch of the Mate X’s successor, the Huawei Mate X2. Here’s why we think the company is going to break its own standards with the same. Before we begin, we need to discuss the Mate X2’s predecessor, the one that started it all, the Mate X and how it was leaps and bounds ahead of what the competitors had to offer, fueling our expectations of the second version of Huawei’s foldable repeating the same leap forward. The Mate X was the embodiment of what a foldable should be, at least as per Huawei. When the competition was stuck with either big, dated bezels or a design that looked far too similar to a late 90’s phone, the Mate X was light years ahead. The main competitor, featuring a slightly similar method of folding, the Samsung Galaxy Fold (first gen) featured massive bezels to the front of the display, with the inside of the smartphone, which housed the main panel featuring a sizeable notch to the top, that too in a weird position, making it that much harder to ignore it whilst enjoying content or even during a spot of light reading. Meanwhile, the alternate style of folding displays, which resembled flip phones of the past offered better innovation, in the form of a small punch-hole on the Z Flip from Samsung and the visible yet less intrusive Motorola Razr (2020) This is where the Mate X truly showcases why we write Light-years ahead as part of the heading of this segment.
