{"id":11877,"date":"2021-02-25T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=11877"},"modified":"2021-02-25T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:37:40","slug":"huawei-announce-2nd-gen-foldable-phone-huawei-mate-x2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/huawei-announce-2nd-gen-foldable-phone-huawei-mate-x2\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei announce 2nd-gen foldable phone &#8211; Huawei Mate X2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doubling down on the foldable future Huawei have announced their 2nd-generation foldable, the Huawei Mate X2.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Building on the company&#8217;s impressive first attempt the X2 hits all the right notes when it comes to modern day smartphone specs. Powered by a Kirin 9000 processor it&#8217;s also a 5G phone with WiFi6, 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage.\u00a0 and a 4,500mAh battery.<\/p>\n<p>The phone now comes with two 90Hz OLED displays. The large foldable one on its interior transforms into a full 8&#8243; 2480 x 2200 display, with another on its face weighing in at 6.45&#8243; with a 2700 x 1160 resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the thing weighs the equivalent of a smartphone tonne, tapping out at just under 300 grams. This is largely due to it needing a 4,500mAh battery a seemingly impressive hinge and what&#8217;s effectively three screens to boot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HUAWEI Mate X2 Launch Event\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DHJrbGquKWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lastly the phone was demoed using EMUI 11.0 (Based on Android 10) and Huawei have committed to it being upgradable to HarmonyOS, their own replacement for the Android operating system. <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/huaweis-new-harmonyos-operating-system-could-severe-the-companys-android-ties\/\">With the company still in limbo due to trade sanctions<\/a> the appeal of it, despite all the foldable wizardry, is likely to be heavily affected in western markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doubling down on the foldable future Huawei have announced their 2nd-generation foldable, the Huawei Mate X2.\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1524,440,284],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11877\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}