Huawei has officially unveiled its new smartphone in China today, and it is radically different from most models on the market. The screen of this model does not fold inwards, it opens outwards. Like the wing-screen Xiaomi Mix Alpha, it’s only foldable.

Another layout allowed him to abandon the second screen and make the smartphone more compact. The thickness of the main part in the unfolded state is only 5.4 mm, the weight of the smartphone is 255 grams. At the same time, only strong materials are used in construction – titanium alloy, ultralight carbon fiber, ultralight and high-strength steels used in the aerospace industry.

The feature of the Mate Xs 2 is, of course, the screen. The flexible OLED panel has a diagonal of 7.8 inches, a resolution of 2480 x 2200 pixels and a frame rate of 120 Hz. The display shows “anti-glare nano-optical coating”.

Judging by the official pictures, the screen is completely devoid of folds, which cannot boast of the same Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3.

The Mate Xs 2 hardware platform is a Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 SoC with no 5G support. This indicates that the Mate Xs 2 will potentially be sold outside of China. RAM – LPDDR5, flash memory – UFS 3.1.

The main camera is represented by sensors with a resolution of 50, 13 and 8 MP. The last module is responsible for shooting with 8x optical zoom. The capacity of the battery in the basic version is 4600 mAh, in the top version – 4880 mAh, 66 W charging is supported in both cases.

The base version of the Mate Xs 2 has 8GB of RAM and 256GB of flash memory. Price – 1510 dollars. The price of the version with 8 GB of RAM and 512 GB of flash memory is $ 1740. Finally, the top version of the Collector’s Edition with 12GB of RAM, 512GB of flash memory and a battery with an increased capacity – $165. Source