Huawei MateXT Masterpiece: The Tri-Fold Era Arrives, a New Benchmark for Foldable Screens

Huawei MateXT Masterpiece: The Tri-Fold Era Arrives, a New Benchmark for Foldable ScreensOn September 10th, Huawei held a "See the Extraordinary" brand gala and HarmonyOS Zhixing new product launch event, officially unveiling the world's first commercially available tri-fold screen phone - the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece. This phone also became a new member of the Masterpiece brand

Huawei MateXT Masterpiece: The Tri-Fold Era Arrives, a New Benchmark for Foldable Screens

On September 10th, Huawei held a "See the Extraordinary" brand gala and HarmonyOS Zhixing new product launch event, officially unveiling the world's first commercially available tri-fold screen phone - the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece. This phone also became a new member of the Masterpiece brand. The Huawei MateXT Masterpiece boasts an unimaginable tri-fold large screen design, the world's largest and thinnest foldable screen, as well as exquisite craftsmanship and Huawei's self-developed high-end materials and patented technologies. These innovations redefine the form of foldable screens, not only symbolizing Huawei's continued leadership in technological innovation but also marking the official entry of the smartphone industry into the tri-fold era.

Extraordinary Experience: From Design to Technology, Defying Imagination

The Huawei MateXT Masterpiece inherits the iconic octagonal design language of the Masterpiece series, with harmonious symmetry and a meaning of stability and infinite possibilities. The newly upgraded legendary star diamond design showcases sharp lines and a three-dimensional structure through a sinusoidal facet design, shining brightly under the interplay of light and shadow.

However, the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece offers more than just outward appearance. This tri-fold phone has also made significant breakthroughs in material innovation. In single-screen mode, the body thickness is only 12.8mm, while unfolded in tri-screen mode it is only 3.6mm, with a weight of just 298g. This thinness is achieved with high reliability and durability.

The Huawei MateXT Masterpiece employs the Huawei TianGong Hinge System in its hinge design, innovatively introducing an embedded slide rail structure for the inner fold hinge and a one-piece linkage structure for the outer fold hinge. This significantly reduces the hinge's activity space and arc arm rotation angle, minimizing the hinge thickness, resulting in a more extreme thinness and better user experience. The core components of the hinge are made from super-strong rocket steel with a deformation resistance of 1900MPa, ensuring long-lasting durability even with frequent folding.

Tri-fold phones pose new challenges to screen reliability. The Huawei MateXT Masterpiece innovatively utilizes a composite super-tough structure combining non-Newtonian fluid material and 322cm UTG composite anti-impact material, offering double anti-impact protection and increasing the screen's impact resistance by 30%.

In terms of ultimate display quality, the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece globally premieres a 3K ultra-clear flexible immersive display large screen. The single screen measures 6.4 inches with a resolution of 2232x1008, while the dual screen is 7.9 inches with a resolution of 2232x2048. Fully expanded to tri-screen mode, the screen size reaches 10.2 inches with a resolution of 2232x3184. It also boasts the highest screen-to-body ratio in the foldable screen field, achieving 92%, and adopts a golden large screen ratio of 16:11.

One Device, Multiple Uses: Multi-Form Design, Meeting Diverse Needs

Thanks to the advantages of tri-folding, the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece offers single-screen mode, dual-screen mode, and tri-screen mode, adapting to different application scenarios. Single-screen mode provides convenient operation and portability, dual-screen mode efficiently processes information, and tri-screen mode delivers various immersive experiences. These are the experience innovations brought by the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece in terms of one device, multiple uses.

Communication Breakthrough: Lingxi Communication Technology, Seamless Connection

The Huawei MateXT Masterpiece is equipped with Lingxi communication technology, enabling free switching between single, dual, and tri-screen modes. It intelligently senses signal strength, accurately matching the optimal antenna combination, and AI Lingxi algorithms understand you better. The antennas are intelligently tuned based on the holding posture, significantly enhancing communication strength in weak signal environments (such as waiting rooms, underground parking lots, and high-speed trains). It also supports TianTong satellite communication, transcending boundaries, with all three screens open, unlocking TianTong satellite communication, enabling calls and text messages even without a network. You can freely edit satellite information, share location, and track trajectories, ensuring worry-free travel.

Leader in Full-Form Foldable Screens: Huawei Leads the New Era of Foldable Smartphones

The Huawei MateXT Masterpiece combines numerous technological innovations and functional highlights, serving as a culmination of Huawei's innovation and exploration in the foldable screen field over the years. It is the most brilliant jewel in the Huawei foldable family, a testament to Huawei's continued exploration in foldable screen technology and product innovation.

As a rising star in the high-end market in recent years, foldable smartphones have seen more impressive performance. From 2022 to 2024, overall shipments have seen rapid growth. In the future, with category penetration gradually increasing, foldable smartphones are poised to become a mainstay of the high-end market.

According to a recent report on the Chinese Foldable Smartphone Market and Consumer Trends in 2024 by iResearch Consulting, in the first half of 2024, Huawei, as a manufacturer with the earliest product line coverage of all forms, including horizontal inward and outward folds and vertical folds, still led the market, capturing half of the market share (42%). Its advantage was even more pronounced in the super-high-end market above RMB 10,000, with a share of 67%.

The Huawei Foldable Family: Leading the Development Direction of Foldable Smartphones

Looking at specific models, the Huawei MateX5, released in 2023, has consistently held the position of a hot-selling model. It has continued to lead the sub-category with over 40% market share in the second quarter of this year. The Huawei MateX5 is a representative of Huawei's horizontal inward-folding phones. Its inner screen is 7.85 inches with a resolution of 2496x2224. Whether browsing websites, watching videos, or performing multi-tasking, it provides a broader and clearer field of view compared to traditional straight-screen phones.

As a foldable smartphone, the Huawei MateX5 supports multi-angle hovering, application split-screen, partitioned screenshots, and cross-screen dragging. These features also bring convenience that straight-screen phones cannot achieve. For example, in the unfolded state, you can browse the web on half of the screen while editing documents or replying to messages on the other half, enabling truly efficient multi-tasking.

In terms of reliability, the Huawei MateX5 Collector's Edition adopts Xuanwu tempered Kunlun glass for the outer screen, increasing scratch resistance by 300% and drop resistance by 100%, resulting in overall improved reliability. It also supports IPX8 water resistance, allowing users to confidently take the Huawei MateX5 into the kitchen, for example, while checking recipes and cooking.

Besides the horizontally inward-folding Huawei MateX5, there is also the vertically small-folding Huawei Pocket2, another innovative creation of the Huawei Foldable Family. This phone boasts a compact and exquisite ID design, with a thickness of only 15.3mm when folded and 7.25mm when unfolded. Combined with its rounded body lines, it offers a comfortable grip and can easily fit in a pocket or a woman's handbag. It also features a unique nacreous shell process, meticulously replicating the natural texture of Tahitian black pearl shells, making each device unique, mysterious, and elegant.

In terms of personalized experience, the Huawei Pocket2 introduces unique outer screen functions. It offers not only personalized content like AI avatars and outer screen pets but also convenient functions such as Live Window and Smart Payment. Additionally, thanks to the second-generation hyperspectral camera, the Huawei Pocket2 provides UV sun protection detection, protecting the beauty of skincare enthusiasts.

Another example is the Huawei novaFlip, known for its industry-leading ultra-thin trendy small foldable design. It introduces the industry's first 1:1 square outer screen - the Fun Square Screen design, where the camera module and square outer screen are arranged in a matrix. In terms of color matching, the Huawei novaFlip offers the main color "Toward New Green," officially described as a "pioneering color beyond nature." It showcases the future and vitality of the digital age through energetic colors. In terms of interaction, the Huawei novaFlip's outer screen incorporates numerous HarmonyOS AI fun features, premiering the innovative call fun display interaction mode. When making a call, the phone's outer screen transforms into a fun animated stage, with various emojis jumping out.

As we can see, every phone in the Huawei Foldable Family has its unique technological innovations and functional characteristics. However, their commonality is to offer a supreme user experience and continuously refresh users' perception of foldable smartphones. This is the fundamental reason why the Huawei Foldable Family has maintained absolute dominance in the Chinese foldable phone market. With the introduction of the Huawei MateXT Masterpiece, the Huawei Foldable Family's leadership in the industry is undoubtedly reinforced once again.

Perhaps in the future, when we talk about foldable phones, there will only be two types: the Huawei Foldable Family and other foldable phones.