Huawei MateX6: Redefining the Folding Screen Ceiling All-Round Power Leading a New Industry Trend

Huawei MateX6: Redefining the Folding Screen Ceiling All-Round Power Leading a New Industry TrendJust over a month after the launch of the Huawei Mate X5, Huawei has once again stunned the industry with its continued technological breakthroughs in the foldable screen sector. On November 26th, at the Huawei Mate brand launch event, the new generation foldable phone, the MateX6, was officially unveiled, injecting new vitality into the foldable screen market

Huawei MateX6: Redefining the Folding Screen Ceiling All-Round Power Leading a New Industry Trend

Just over a month after the launch of the Huawei Mate X5, Huawei has once again stunned the industry with its continued technological breakthroughs in the foldable screen sector. On November 26th, at the Huawei Mate brand launch event, the new generation foldable phone, the MateX6, was officially unveiled, injecting new vitality into the foldable screen market.

As a leader in the foldable screen industry, Huawei has launched ten foldable phones over the past five years, the only manufacturer in the industry with small, dual, and triple-fold form factors. Huawei has always been committed to driving the development of foldable phones towards lighter, thinner, and more versatile designs, and the MateX6 is the latest embodiment of this goal. This flagship foldable phone is equipped with a series of innovative technologies, including the HarmonyOS NEXT operating system, the self-developed Distributed Xuanwu architecture, and the Hongfeng True-Chroma camera system. It aims to set new benchmarks in reliability, imaging capabilities, communication capabilities, and smart experiences, bringing users an unprecedented all-around experience and leading the technological direction of the foldable screen field.

HarmonyOS NEXT Powering a New Large-Screen AI Experience

For a large foldable screen phone, a huge screen and a matching excellent interactive experience are crucial. Based on years of in-depth research on foldable screen products, Huawei has introduced various convenient operation methods and experiences for both the inner and outer screens, such as Parallel View, Smart Multi-Window, Smart Outer Screen, and Adaptive UI Engine. This has successfully built a mature foldable screen application ecosystem, significantly improving the efficiency of large-screen usage.

The Huawei MateX6 comes pre-installed with the latest HarmonyOS NEXT operating system. In addition to providing more flexible and convenient split-screen functionality and powerful gesture controls, it deeply integrates AI capabilities into the system, fully leveraging the potential of the large screen and ushering in a large-screen AI experience in the era of large language models. The new Harmony Intelligence accurately identifies user needs and habits, providing personalized services and operation suggestions, such as automatically adjusting screen brightness and volume settings according to different usage scenarios, optimizing user experience.

Powered by the Pangu large language model, the XiaoYi intelligent assistant acts as a system-level AI assistant, enabling users to "feed" various documents to XiaoYi via drag-and-drop, enabling intelligent expansion writing, intelligent typesetting, AI content summarization, and full text translation. XiaoYi can also intelligently identify split-screen content, directly answering user questions or processing documents based on screen information, achieving efficient office experience through side-by-side comparison.

The Huawei MateX6 fully leverages the advantages of its large screen, developing a series of unique and practical functions. The unique Mood Box theme of HarmonyOS NEXT is also applied to the MateX6's large screen. The 3D Emoji on the lock screen or AOD interface displays different expressions based on user actions such as clicking, shaking, and tilting, providing a fun and interactive experience. Huawei's pioneering air gesture control has also been further evolved, enabling cross-device screen capture transfer with a single grab: after completing an air screen capture, the user keeps their fist gesture over another trusted device's screen, and releasing the fist sends the screenshot to the other device.

To maximize the large-screen advantage, Huawei has collaborated with numerous software partners to build a foldable screen ecosystem, deeply adapting many leading apps covering social media, video, games, and light office work for high-frequency daily use. When handling documents, browsing information, or watching movies, users can fully experience the immersion and efficiency improvement brought by the large screen. For example, when running Xueqiu, TongHuashun, and Oriental Fortune concurrently, traditional foldable screens can only run them through overlaying small windows in a split-screen; however, the Huawei MateX6, with its deep adaptation of the "Panorama Multi-Window" function, can run three applications simultaneously, each with near full-screen display. Users can quickly switch between them via swiping without interference, significantly improving user experience.

Distributed Xuanwu Architecture: Enhanced Reliability

While other manufacturers are still piling up components, Huawei has gone beyond the basic threshold of foldable screens and started to reshape the body structure design and overcome material challenges. The Huawei MateX6 innovatively adopts the Distributed Xuanwu architecture. Unlike existing foldable screens that concentrate components on the main frame, Huawei distributes the system-on-a-chip and radio frequency integrated circuits on both the main and secondary frames. This frees up more space for circuit component design, resulting in ultimate space utilization and performance improvement.

The distributed architecture design allows the Huawei MateX6 to more evenly disperse external forces, significantly improving the overall shock resistance and deformation resistance. The second-generation Xuanwu Kunlun Glass outer screen, incorporating nano-processing technology, improves scratch resistance by 16 times and drop resistance by 25 times, effectively preventing scratches from sharp objects or accidental drops from damaging the phone.

Huawei applies a composite laminated structure design to the inner screen, and uses a unique innovative carbon fiber material in the laminate, further enhancing the screen's impact resistance. Even when pressed by a hard object or accidentally dropped while unfolded, the inner screen remains intact. The new Xuanwu waterdrop hinge made of aerospace-grade materials makes the Huawei MateX6 thinner and more reliable, setting a benchmark for reliability. The larger internal space also creates conditions for improving internal heat dissipation capabilities. The MateX6 adopts a three-dimensional heat dissipation structure consisting of a cross-axis graphene film, upper and lower cover plate 3DVC vapor chambers, and a rear cover graphene film, enabling rapid heat dissipation under various heavy load scenarios, ensuring stable and smooth phone operation.

Hongfeng True-Chroma Imaging: Restoring the True Colors

Despite its slim and lightweight design, the imaging system of the Huawei MateX6 is still a major highlight. In terms of hardware, the Huawei MateX6 features a new Hongfeng True-Chroma imaging system, including a 50MP super-variable aperture main camera (with ten physical variable apertures from F1.4 to F4.0), a 40MP ultra-wide-angle camera, and a rare 48MP 4x optical zoom periscope telephoto macro camera in its class.

In terms of software, based on the global spectral information measured by the multispectral channel camera, the Huawei MateX6 can record the true colors seen by the human eye, ensuring that colors do not overflow even in high-saturation or solid-color backgrounds. Coupled with the XDFUSION True-Chroma engine, it can capture the vibrant beauty of nature and life changes without the need for a tripod.

The Huawei MateX6 boasts the powerful capabilities of Huawei XMAGE imaging, as well as features like Textured Portrait and Super Capture, allowing for easy full-focal-length high-definition shooting, achieving "what you see is what you get" and capturing pure and beautiful moments. In addition, the Huawei MateX6 introduces dynamic photo shooting and editing capabilities, allowing users to not only set dynamic photos as dynamic wallpapers but also achieve different creative effects through AI effects, combining practicality and fun.

Uninterrupted Connectivity: Seamless Network Coverage

The stability and strength of the network signal directly affect the user's communication experience. The Huawei MateX6 is equipped with second-generation Lingxi communication, significantly improving the signal sensing capability from folded to unfolded states, providing users with stable network connectivity even in weak signal environments.

To address situations with no signal in the wild, the Huawei MateX6 Three-Network Satellite Collector's Edition is the world's first mass-market smartphone to support three-network satellite communication. It can communicate with the outside world through three satellite systems TianTong satellite communication, BeiDou satellite messaging, and low-orbit satellite internet in the absence of ground networks (low-orbit satellite internet system is under testing and is expected to start public testing in the second half of 2025). This provides users with ultimate safety assurance in environments such as deserts, at sea, or during earthquake rescue operations where there is no ground network signal coverage.

Thanks to the addition of Star Flash technology, the MateX6 supports precise location finding even when switched off. The phone can emit a signal indicating its last power-off location through nearby Huawei devices after power-off. Within a certain period of time after power-off, users can log in to the cloud space website with their Huawei account and use the "Find Device" function to view the phone's location and pinpoint it accurately using distance measurement and direction capabilities.

Redefining the Folding Screen Ceiling

With continued product iteration by companies like Huawei, foldable screen phones have become a major engine for growth in China's mobile phone sales. IDC predicts that the shipment volume of foldable screen phones in China will reach about 10.68 million units in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 52.4%; by 2028, the shipment volume will exceed 17 million units, with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 19.8%.

Through generations of foldable screen phones, Huawei has made this category lighter, more versatile, and more reliable, bringing a richer and more diverse user experience and solidifying its position as a pioneer in three foldable form factors, leading the trend of foldable phone development. Huawei's high-end strategy stems from its deep technological accumulation and continuous innovation drive. Huawei believes