In order to find out which folding screen is the best, I made a 50 thousand yuan horizontal review

Speaking of intelligence mobile phone For the biggest change in form, folding screen must be the first answer that many people think of. From the birth of the first folding screen mobile phone in 2018 to the present, four years have made this category mature enough, and mainstream brands in the market have also launched their own folding screen products.

From left to right: Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 、 Huawei Mate X2 、 vivo X Fold+ 、 OPPO Find N

Therefore, we can now make a horizontal comparison for the folding screen products on the market to see whether they can reach the level of flagship phones in the use experience "from taste to use". In this horizontal review, we selected the most popular horizontal folding category among folding screen products, including vivo X Fold+of "stacking priority", OPPO Find N of "shape priority", and "thin and light priority" Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 and one of the most expensive folding screens on the market Huawei Mate X 2. The total price is close to 50000 yuan. Now let's take a look at the performance of the four folding screen models under different design ideas.

01 Design: discover new ideas in the same set of designs

Although the four folding screen models we selected this time all adopt the horizontal folding design, their similarities are limited to this. In fact, it is the difference in appearance that most significantly distinguishes their design orientation. Considering that the structure of folding screen products is more complex, I will discuss it separately from the dimensions, weight and creases.

Considering that the biggest selling point of folding screen products is the screen, the dimensions of these four products are naturally defined around this screen. After several years of development, all major manufacturers have realized the importance of the outer screen. The four products participating in the test did not use the slender "remote control" outer screen. Vivo X Fold+, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2, and Huawei Mate X2 were all 21:9. OPPO Find N, because of its pursuit of small size, used the 18:9 screen, and the black edge of the video was smaller.

The outer screen of OPPO Find N adopts a ratio of 18:9

Because the outer screen size is close, the inner screen size of vivo X Fold+, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 and Huawei Mate X2 are also very close, all about 8 inches. The inner screen size of OPPO Find N is slightly smaller, 7.1 inches. However, because the screen proportion is closer to the horizontal screen, it has more advantages in watching videos and other scenes.

In terms of thickness, OPPO Find N inevitably obtained the thickest 15.9mm folding thickness in the court due to its smaller size, but with a more rounded appearance, it will not make people feel too thick. Huawei Mate X2 is close to vivo X Fold+in folding thickness, but Huawei has used a "trick" here. The wedge design adopted by Mate X2 makes its folding thickness at the thinnest part only 13.6mm, and at the thinnest part only 4.8mm in the unfolded state.

Huawei Mate X2 adopts wedge design

However, when it comes to thinness, we still need to look at the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2. The 11.2mm thickness in the folded state is almost the same as that of a straight mobile phone with a slightly thick case. The 5.4mm thickness after unfolding makes people feel like they are holding a piece of paper. Considering the limitation of USB-C interface, I believe that this thickness will be the limit of folding screen phones for a long time.

The developed thickness of millet MIX Fold 2 is close to the thickness of USB-C interface

Having seen the difference in size of these four products, it is not difficult to guess their weight performance. But I need to make a statement here first, unless you are the kind of hand-held film with shell iPhone 14 Pro Max is a "hero" without pressure, otherwise the pressure on the wrist of the current folding screen products will be greater than that of the straight mobile phones. Vivo X Fold+has the heaviest weight of 311g in the whole court, which is probably the price that must be paid for full hardware specifications; After Huawei Mate X2 cut some specifications in the endurance, its weight also dropped to 295g; The weight of OPPO Find N is further reduced to 275g due to its smallest fuselage size in the field; The weight of the Xiaomi MIX Fold 2262g is actually the lightest among the current folding screen models, but its body thickness is too shocking, so its weight is not very impressive.

As for the crease problem, as a senior user of folding screen phones, my own use experience is the same as that of most folding screen users: I will pay attention to it before buying it, but I don't care about it during use. After all, according to my personal use, whether the crease is obvious depends on the light source of your environment. In the room without direct light source, even the creases on the inner screen of the original MIX FOLD are not too noticeable. And because these four products all adopt the water drop hinge design, their crease control is also the first echelon at present. However, if you are really sensitive to creases, it is recommended to go to the store for actual experience before deciding.

In general, from the appearance, it can be seen that the positioning of the four products is different. It is inevitable that the vivo X Fold+and Huawei Mate X2 in the stacking direction will have to make a choice in thickness; The positioning of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is naturally extremely light and thin, and actually it is amazing; OPPO Find N takes a different approach and achieves both small and large screens through special size design. Which do you like best?

02 Experience: form determines usage

If the design of the folding screen phone determines whether your hands are comfortable, then Software Experience directly determines whether you feel relaxed when using your mobile phone. As the key point of exerting its morphological advantages, the importance of folding screen mobile phone software optimization cannot be overestimated. On the functional level, although the products provide much the same, there are still obvious differences in the experience due to the different details of optimization and implementation methods. Now let's take a look with me.

On the desktop, the first interface of mobile phone operation, there are obvious differences between the four products. If the desktop displayed on the outer screen is called a page, OPPO Find N and Huawei Mate X2 will directly stretch this page after expanding the inner screen, while vivo X Fold+and Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 will display two pages of content, and none of the four products can switch this setting.

External screen and internal screen desktop of Huawei Mate X2

The outer screen and inner screen desktop of vivo X Fold+

In terms of the split screen function standard for folding screen phones, the biggest difference between the four products is actually the triggering method. OPPO Find N has the most intuitive sliding between two fingers, vivo X Fold+is sliding up between three fingers, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is sliding right between three fingers, and Huawei Mate X2 is sliding from the bottom middle of the screen to the upper left corner. For users who often use the split screen function, all three models except Huawei Mate X2 provide the function of saving split screen combinations to the desktop.

OPPO Find N's double finger middle slide split screen

As for the small window function, since it has been developed on the straight mobile phone for many years, the performance of each company is very close. All four products can call out small windows globally through the edges on both sides of the screen. The only difference is whether to use the trigger bar or hold the long press. In addition, if you want to window the current application, OPPO Find N can be pinched with four fingers. Huawei Mate X2 and Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 slide from the bottom middle of the screen to the upper left corner.

Find N can quickly switch the application to a small window with four fingers

The folding screen is equipped with the "parallel horizon" function, which is standard on all four mobile phones. Adaptive applications basically include domestic mainstream video, instant messaging and shopping apps. However, there is a problem with this function in the shopping app: due to the logic of new pages from left to right, users cannot operate on both sides of the window at the same time, or they will be overwritten. To solve this problem, Huawei added a switch at the top center of the screen. Click it to unbind the left and right windows.

Huawei Mate X2 Click the top middle button to "unbind" the left and right windows

Due to the special form of the folding screen mobile phone, it has also derived some unique playing methods in the aspect of image. All four products have a built-in "rear camera selfie" function, which can call the rear camera to take selfie, with better effect. In addition, the external preview function can effectively prevent boys from taking all kinds of strange photos of their girlfriends. However, Huawei Mate X2 does not support this function, which is quite unexpected.

External screen preview function

In addition to these functions that everyone has, OPPO Find N and vivo X Fold+can also derive many interesting hover play methods due to the hover hinge design. For example, in the video app, both products can fold the inner screen to 90 degrees, hover the phone on the desktop, watch the film on the top half screen, and turn the bottom half screen into a touch pad, which can control the playback progress, volume, and brightness through sliding/clicking. When making a video call, fold the phone to hover status to display the video call content on the top half of the screen, and click on the bottom half to control mute, volume, sharing and other operations.

In addition to the first party adaptation provided by the system, OPPO Find N and vivo X Fold+also provide support for tent mode, so that users can freely pose as they want, which is more convenient to use.

Tent mode of vivo X Fold+

On the issue of application adaptation that many people pay attention to, due to the high openness of Android, application developers are ready to adapt to various resolutions during development. In addition, with the development of the folding screen market, mainstream applications will basically have no adaptation problems. For special applications such as games, the four products also provide application display scale options in the system, which can be freely switched between full screen, 4:3 and 16:9 according to application needs.

Folding screen area in Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 settings

In terms of other details, each company basically provided dynamic information suitable for folding screen wallpaper Adapt to the input on the inner screen typewriting Skin is also a necessary ritual for folding screen products that are still selling at a high price.

This part may be described in detail, but in my opinion, it is these details that reflect the experience difference between folding screen products. On the whole, there is not much left for mobile phone manufacturers to do on the software level of folding screen phones. Most folding screen users have achieved the functions they need urgently, whether in the use of large screens or in the form of play. Next, the focus of ecological development is still on developers. The manufacturers have no doubt seen this. The "Gold Standard Alliance" established by MiOV and BAT is one of the manifestations of the efforts of the manufacturers. As for the effect, only time can answer.

03 Image: Maybe this is the "sub flagship" of each image?

As the flagship product of major mobile phone brands, folding screen mobile phones can't escape the situation of the current flagship market's image capability being rolled in. The four mobile phones tested in this test are complete in terms of main length, wide view and three shots. Huawei Mate X2 and vivo X Fold+two stacker products have added periscope telephoto lens, which can see farther. Next, we will take a look at the image performance of the four mobile phones through the sample.

The first is the main photography performance in the daytime scene, when all automatic modes are turned on and AI colors are turned on. Vivo X Fold+, OPPO Find N, and Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 all have high color saturation, while Huawei Mate X2's color is relatively dim. Although the real scene of the day is not so bright, Huawei's color is also too dim.

Under the telephoto lens, OPPO Find N has a certain degree of overexposure tendency. The color saturation of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is too high, while the white balance of Huawei Mate X2 is slightly shifted. The photo is yellow overall, and the best overall appearance is vivo X Fold+.

In the night view mode, OPPO Find N has a slight tendency of overexposure, Huawei Mate X2 still has a faint color, while the dark details of the eaves in Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 are obviously lost, and the most comfortable overall appearance is vivo X Fold+.

Finally, let's take a look at the special functions of image co branding. Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 and Xiaomi 12S As for the series, it is equipped with a full set of Leica cameras, including many color modes, filters and Leica watermarks. Although the shooting ability is not the first, it is absolutely full in style. Vivo X Fold+has T * coating support, Xiao Quan filter and four ZEISS lens bags are also equipped, which is very helpful for portrait shooting. Huawei Mate X2 has three filters: Leica Standard, Leica Brightness and Leica Softness, but they are not obvious in actual shooting. OPPO Find N has no such function because it has no co name. However, considering that OPPO has reached cooperation with Hasu, it is believed that it will be supplemented in the next product.

On the whole, the four products participating in this test, although not comparable to the image flagship in terms of image capability, are also strong, and the gap is more reflected in different styles. Especially vivo X Fold+, with its excellent comprehensive bid, I think it is not too much to call it "image sub flagship".

04 Endurance: not as bad as you think

For mobile phones with folded screens, the endurance is also the focus of users' attention. It is not surprising that people are used to associating folding screen phones with poor battery life. Almost all the tablets available on the market now use super large batteries as selling points. Large batteries of 6000mAh or even 10000mAh are hard to reach by mobile phones. In actual use, the endurance of these tablets is hardly excellent. In contrast, the maximum battery capacity of the existing folding screen mobile phone is only 5000mAh, and it also has two large and small screens, which seems destined to continue the voyage.

Indeed, folding screen phones with folding in design are usually equipped with internal and external screens in order to meet the user's experience in different scenarios, but in 99% of cases, both internal and external screens will not be turned on at the same time. Therefore, we can determine that the increased power consumption of the folding screen phone is basically concentrated on the larger inner screen, and the power consumption level of the inner screen determines the endurance level of the folding screen phone.

In order to truly measure the endurance level of folding screen mobile phones, I designed a new test model. Alternate the use of inner and outer screens according to different scenarios, which more realistically reflects the endurance of mobile phones with folded screens. Test items include 60 minutes of watching station B on the inner screen, 50 minutes of brushing and dithering on the outer screen, and QQ 30 minutes for chatting, 30 minutes for microblogging on the external screen, 15 minutes for taking pictures on the external screen and 15 minutes for taking pictures on the internal screen《 Glory of Kings 》60 minutes, 30 minutes for Taobao on the external screen, and a total test time of 5 hours.

After the test, vivo X Fold+gained the most 51% remaining power with the largest battery and Snapdragon 8+processor with better energy efficiency; Next is Xiaomi MIX Fold 2, which is also equipped with Snapdragon 8+but has a slightly smaller battery. The remaining power is 49%.

In terms of charging speed, the battery capacity of the four products is close, so the charging power has become the main factor affecting the performance. Vivo X Fold+can charge the phone from 1% to 98% in 30 minutes with 80W fast charge, followed by Xiaomi MIX Fold 2, which charges the phone to 86% in 30 minutes. It is worth mentioning that although the price of the Huawei Mate X2 5G classic edition I bought is up to 18499 yuan, it does not include a charger. If you want to activate the 55W fast charge, you must purchase the official 66W fast charge head at your own expense.

In addition to wired charging, vivo X Fold+and OPPO Find N also provide support for wireless charging. Vivo X Fold+also provides a full blood 50W wireless fast charge, which can quickly return blood even without plugging in the cable.

05 Price and discount: at least 6999 yuan, you can start folding the flagship

After all the comparative tests, let's turn our attention to the discount of buy back machines. After all, saving money is the king's way. Here we take the basic version as the standard, and take a look at the discount of the four models on the JD Mall.

Preferential information of each model

As of the release of the article, OPPO Find N has provided a deposit discount. A deposit of 100 yuan can be worth 700 yuan, and the 8GB+256GB version can be purchased at 6999 yuan. It can also receive an official protective shell and 80W SuperVOOC car charger. Vivo X Fold+12GB+256GB version is 9999 yuan, and there is no discount for current spot supply. The reservation price of Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 12GB+256GB version is 8999 yuan, and there are six interest free installments of IOUs and a special gift package for MIX Fold 2. Huawei Mate X2 is currently out of stock in Huawei's official JD flagship store, while the price of 12GB+512GB classic (without charger) on JD's proprietary store is 23388 yuan.

On the whole, although different companies offer different discounts, it is undoubtedly the most worthwhile to start OPPO Find N during the Double 11 Festival, and interested friends should not miss it.

05 Write at the end

After the above tests, I think that the four products that participated in the horizontal review have all achieved "from taste to common use", which can bring users a use experience without obvious shortcomings. In addition, thanks to the new form of the folding screen, manufacturers also have more space to optimize, so as to bring more fresh and interesting functions to users. In terms of price, it seems that the folding screen is no longer just an "expensive toy". The four digit pricing also makes more users willing to try the new mobile phone form of folding screen.

For users who want to purchase folding screen models, the four products also have their own characteristics. If you want to buy a folding screen phone with full configuration in all aspects, and do not mind the relatively thick body, then vivo X Fold+is naturally the first choice; If you are a senior user of Huawei Ecology, Huawei Mate X2 is the most suitable; If you want to be small and portable, OPPO Find N will not let you down; If you need to be extremely thin and light, Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is the best.

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