Huawei Mate X6 arrives with HarmonyOS Next, slimmer body and larger screens | Infinium-tech

Huawei Mate It’s a major upgrade over its older predecessor with a slightly larger display, a new set of cameras, and in-house HarmonyOS Next straight out of the box.

As has been Huawei’s tradition lately, the chipset isn’t mentioned. We expect the Kirin 9100 – a 6nm platform that is still nowhere near modern flagships.

Mate 1 Billion Colors.

The cover features a 6.45″ LTPO OLED display with 1080p resolution. This matches the refresh rate of the foldable screen, whose peak brightness is even higher – 2,500 nits.

The Mate X6 has four cameras on the back. We’ve already seen three of them on other Huawei phones. The 50 MP main with f/1.4-f/4.0 variable aperture comes from the Mate 70 Pro+, and the 48 MP telephoto with 90 mm equivalent focal length and 4x optical zoom comes from the Mate 60 Pro. A 40 MP ultra-wide-angle with AF is also available on the Pura 70 Ultra.

The fourth lens is home to a hyperspectral sensor that captures more than 1.5 million colors. Its job is to enhance the performance of other shooters and adjust color accuracy with an engine called XD Fusion.

The Huawei Mate X6 measures an almost impossibly thin 4.3mm, but it’s heavier than the Mate The battery capacity is either 5,110 mAh or, in the case of the 16 GB RAM version, 5,200 mAh.

Wired charging is rated at 66W and the phone supports 50W wireless and 7.5W reverse wireless charging.

The new foldable features a redesigned antenna, dual-satellite communications (only Chinese satellites Beidou and Tiantong), liquid cooling and a three-dimensional vapor chamber with multiple graphite layers and second-generation Kunlun Glass protection for the cover display.

Huawei has also improved the water drop hinge, and it is now sleeker when moving and also more durable as it is apparently made of the same steel material used in rockets. The Mate X6 is also IPX8 certified for water protection, and the cover screen can still work underwater.

Huawei was left to develop its own operating system five years ago, and the Mate X6 is one of the first products with the new OS built on a completely new in-house kernel. It is called HarmonyOS Next and it brings a number of AI features powered by home-grown large language models (LLMs).

The phone, being designed for multitasking, comes with special split-screen features like gathering notes while watching video lectures, document previews and summaries, and rewriting captivating text for social media.

We must point out that only certain devices will come with HarmonyOS Next 5.0 out of the box. The rest come with HarmonyOS 4.3, which is still based on the Android AOSP kernel.

Huawei offers the Mate X6 in five colors – gray and white with a glass/plastic finish, and black, red and blue with a leather finish. All of these are available on the company’s e-store at a starting price of CNY 12,999 ($1,800/€1,700) for the base 12/256GB version.

The 12/512 GB variant is CNY13,999 ($1,935/€1,835), the 16/512 GB variant is CNY 14,999 ($2,070/€1,950), while the 16 GB + 1 TB option is CNY 15,999 ($2,200/€2,100).

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The company has not yet commented on whether this phone will go global or be its third foldable in a row (after the Mate X5 and Mate XT Ultimate) to be exclusive to China.

Source (in Chinese)