As the world's largest single market for folding screens, China has already seen the birth of too many excellent folding flagship products, and Huawei's Mate X series is undoubtedly the one that continues to lead the pack in such a “voluminous” environment.
After leading all the way, they brought the new Huawei Mate X6 folding flagship at the end of November, with the arrival of the new HarmonyOS NEXT 5.0 system, the unique red maple original color camera and the distributed Xuanwu architecture, which brings a lot of new and great changes to this new folding flagship.
And what new and different experiences do these changes bring? Let's feel it together today and see.
Classic appearance, texture upgraded
In terms of appearance, the Huawei Mate X6 still maintains a high degree of texture, it still uses advanced brocade fiber material, maintaining a unique touch and lightweight feel, but also tough and durable, and in the color process has been renewed. We received the Huawei Mate X6 Classic Edition in Nebula Gray, a color scheme based on the concept of “Nebula Texture,” which is a gray base with a unique texture created by micro-nano 3D topography.
With the advanced workmanship on the inside and various materials on the outside, Huawei Mate X6 has been slimmed down a little in terms of body parameters, with the official figures being as light as 239g and as thin as 9.85mm in the folded state.
Huawei Mate X6 is still full of the classic Mate X series of universal theme family design, it has also made some changes in many details. Especially in the part of the center frame, it uses a lot of curves for outlining, and the corners are also made extra wrapped, along with the four-curved design of the outer screen, to create a rounded grip feel.
In addition, the newly added basalt water drop hinge also significantly improves the sense of stability during folding, which is something that needs to be named and praised.
Huawei Mate X6's image module is full of details, four cameras in the circular module symmetrically arranged, is the Mate X series of classic universal theme of family design language of an inheritance, the circumference of the three-dimensional diamond cutting process to create a high-gloss metal side edges, more delicate sense. Of course, on top of the extremely thin folded body, this powerful image configuration bulge will also be relatively obvious, from the results, in turn, improve the reliability when holding.
Exclusive original color camera, exclusive good color
Compared to traditional full-focus image modules, the Huawei Mate X6 not only achieves the excellent sensor hardware and lens combination of a full-focus quad camera, but also comes with a new Red Maple primary color camera. It has more than 1.5 million spectral channels, which brings a qualitative leap and gives this folding flagship the ability to recognize more colors more accurately.
Just like the black and white lens on the Huawei Mate 9 that brought about the improvement in image quality, the Red Maple Primary Color Camera builds on the high image quality already achieved by further improving the accuracy of the colors to create an image quality that only Huawei can express.
▲After shooting, the Red Maple Original Color Camera will help adjust the color rendering of the original photo
So what does this texture look like? Let's take a look at the samples taken by the Huawei Mate X6.
In a daytime scene with good light, it can accurately restore the color conditions that we see with the naked eye at different color temperatures, the sky will show a translucent look and feel, and the grey and white of the building itself can be accurately restored, and combined with the excellent image quality, the overall feeling is still relatively good.
▲Wide-angle main camera daytime samples
▲Periscope telephoto daytime samples
Of course, a well-lit daytime doesn't reflect much of the Huawei Mate X6's color advantage.
Turning to indoor food scenes, the Huawei Mate X6's accurate color reproduction advantage is obvious. It's easy to see that it doesn't intentionally increase saturation and brightness in food photos, but rather shows the colors of the food itself, and the accuracy is the secret to the vibrant colors in the images, which does increase your appetite.
▲Wide-angle main camera (zoom to 48mm equivalent) indoor samples
▲Periscope Telephoto Indoor Sample (Macro)
In a scene with a large light ratio and a lot of color transitions, the Huawei Mate X6 can accurately reproduce the gradation of the sky from orange and yellow to gray and blue, and also take into account the details of the bright sky and the buildings in the shadows under the algorithms, and even maintain a sense of darkness and light close to the naked eye, which is a pleasant surprise.
The wide-angle main camera sunset samples
Even in the night scene, Huawei Mate X6 performance is also surprising, high color accuracy not only brings a single photo of excellent perception, but also to achieve a very accurate multi-camera unified style, the performance of the sample can be said to be beyond the strength of a single sensor itself. This shows that the original color of the red maple camera in the night scene is really quite significant, even more prominent than in the daytime.
The camera's wide-angle main camera is a good choice for night scenes.
▲Super wide-angle lens night scene samples
▲Periscope telephoto night scene sample (the original image is a bit brighter because the graphic editor didn't keep the HDR lighting information)
Because human skin tone contains a portion of hemoglobin color that is difficult to be recorded by conventional sensors, the Red Maple Primary Color Camera can also help to record different portrait skin tones when it comes to portrait photos. Our samples confirm this, as our colleague's skin tone looks especially vivid in the sample, with a bit more blood color that is always overlooked by the camera, rather than makeup added by beauty algorithms, which is rare in male portraits.
▲Wide-angle main camera (zoom to 48mm equivalent) portrait mode samples
Not only does it improve the performance of still images, the Red Maple camera also provides a solid color foundation for dynamic photos and videos on the Huawei Mate X6, but it's hard to convey this advantage in our graphic content, so you can also follow our review video. Simply put, the Red Maple Original Camera does more than simply “add a camera”, it significantly improves the color performance of different scenes and shots, and is the Huawei Mate X6's “big weapon” in terms of imaging.
Is the “pureblood” system good enough?
The Huawei Mate X6 Collector's Edition we received arrived with the HarmonyOS NEXT 5.0 upgrade, and considering that the Mate X6 and Mate 70 series are already available for purchase, it seems that Huawei has decided that the system has matured enough to be open to some of the general consumers.
Indeed, with Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT 5.0, the progress of app adaptation is still relatively optimistic, with the “basic” and “everyday” experiences already covered, and most social media apps already adapted. Most social media apps have been adapted, while WeChat and QQ, which have been slow to adapt, have beta versions that can be easily downloaded, and there are a lot of options for games as well.
Although the more popular competitive games “Honor of Kings” and “Peace Elite” are still in beta, but from the smooth gaming experience, the difficulty of adaptation should be the player data, most likely not the performance and game content.
Large battery, battery life is still at ease
After discussing the hardware configuration and system version, let's take a look at the Huawei Mate X6's battery life performance in this final segment. Huawei Mate X6's battery configuration is still very high, and the battery capacity of this Collector's Edition in our hands is a full 5200mAh, combined with HarmonyOS NEXT deeper performance scheduling, theoretically, the battery life performance will be quite good.
We also tested the internal screen according to basic battery life scenarios, and we can see that the overall battery life of the Huawei Mate X6's internal screen is quite good, especially in video playback scenarios, where its power consumption is quite low and its performance is quite good, and in the Glory of Kings Prospective Beta at 120 fps, its power consumption is not that much; however, there is still room for improvement, for example, in the microblogging and browsing, its power consumption is quite low. However, there is still room for improvement, such as in Weibo browsing, its power consumption will be a bit high, which may need to be further optimized.
The Huawei Mate X6 also comes with 66W wired and 50W wireless fast charging, which is more than enough to handle the 5200mAh battery. Starting from 1%, it charges to 100% in 42 minutes, which isn't particularly fast, but it's still fast enough for daily use.
Wrap-up
Looking back at today's folding screen market, we can see that among the folding flagships, Huawei Mate X series has always been the most reliable and attractive folding flagship for users to choose.
After the development of domestic flagships in the past few years, it is not difficult to realize that the victory of the parameters is certainly important, but the user always buys the experience - Huawei Mate X6 is precisely a product under this “experience first” idea.
It uses the new red maple original color camera to break through the bottleneck in the color of the current mobile image, the native HarmonyOS NEXT 5.0 in the privacy, smoothness, ecological integration and characteristics of the function are full of surprises, but also people look forward to its subsequent ecological development, but also a solid battery life, good-looking folding screen, the reliable body of the basilica and the stability of the second generation of the rhinoceros communication, and so on, the comprehensive experience can be said to be full of surprises. can be said to be full of surprises.
If you have a fresh idea of folding screen products, Huawei Mate X6 will be one of the folding flagships that can bring you the most surprises; and if you already have a certain knowledge of folding screen, it will also remain a good choice that is most trustworthy.
