The first of these changes is that the Mate Xs has a new two-layer polymer structure on the screen that adds a degree of robustness. As with the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the problems reported with the first-gen Mate X mostly related to its screen, so it’s good news if those flaws have been addressed before Huawei’s folding technology finally makes it to British shores.
The other main design change relates to the hinge. At MWC 2019, Huawei was happy for us to hold the Mate X but we weren’t allowed to fold it which didn’t exactly inspire a great deal of confidence. There was no such coyness this time around at the briefing for the Mate Xs and I was really impressed by how well-built the hinge feels in the new device.
The Mate Xs is powered by Huawei’s latest Kirin 990 processor, so as well as supporting 5G, it certainly ought to be cut out for whatever power-hungry applications you care to use on it. There’s also 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage as standard, so the Mate Xs can more or less go toe to toe with other flagship handsets as far as hardware is concerned.
Of course, these impressive hardware specs must be viewed against the backdrop that the Mate Xs will almost certainly launch without the Google Play Store when it eventually arrives in the UK. That means Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube, among many other apps, aren’t on the device when you receive it and can’t be installed.
As with the Mate 30 Pro, that’ll likely present very real problems that aren’t what you’d want to experience with a device that costs upwards of £1,000. That’s a real shame as in all other respects we’re really excited to put this innovative phone through its paces in the near future.
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