After Samsung successively released the third-generation folding mobile phone Galaxy Fold2, Huawei also recently reported that the third-generation folding phone mateX2 is already in the design, and it is expected to be released as early as early next year. Samsung and Huawei are the only mobile phone companies that have launched foldable phones among the global mobile phone companies, so who is better in their technology?
Samsung develops folding mobile phones mainly on its own. The core technology of folding mobile phones is folding OLED panels. Samsung has been developing OLED panels for 13 years. Its profound technical accumulation has allowed it to release the concept of folding mobile phones first.
As the leader of domestic mobile phones, Huawei mobile phones have repeatedly taken the lead in technological innovation in recent years. As a display of the technical strength of mobile phone companies, Huawei certainly will not miss it. It is the first to release the world before Samsung officially releases folding phones. The first commercial folding mobile phone mateX.
The foldable OLED panel of Huawei's foldable mobile phone mateX comes from BOE. Huawei’s technological upgrade of foldable phones is subject to BOE, and BOE’s OLED panel technology actually lags behind Samsung. This year, BOE originally hoped to become a supplier of Apple’s iPhone 12, but it is said that BOE's OLED panel technology failed to meet Apple's requirements and ultimately failed to become a reality.
This shows that BOE is unable to fully invest in the research and development of folding OLED panels. The primary issue for it is to improve the technical level and production capacity of OLED panels; Samsung was Apple’s only OLED panel supplier before last year, and Samsung, which has the core technology of folding mobile phones, was able to Rapid iteration, ahead of Huawei in terms of technology update speed.
Samsung’s first foldable phone, the Galaxy Fold, uses a left-to-right fold-in design. The second phone has a top-to-bottom fold-in design. The third-generation foldable phone Galaxy Fold2 uses the same design as the first-generation foldable phone Galaxy fold. Folding inward from left to right. In terms of technology upgrades, the second and third generations of folding mobile phones use glass covers, so they are more scratch-resistant and more practical.
Huawei's first-generation folding mobile phone mateX and the second-generation folding mobile phone mateXS both adopt a left-right and outward-folding design. The folding OLED panels of its two-generation folding phones have no major technical upgrades. In desperation, Huawei emphasizes the second-generation folding phones. The hinge has undergone major technical upgrades. However, the core technology of the folding mobile phone is the folding OLED panel. Whether the folding OLED panel is durable is the most important technical core. Both generations of folding mobile phones use plastic covers, which are obviously folding OLED panels. Technically, Huawei should lag behind Samsung.
Huawei's first two generations of foldable mobile phones adopted an outward-folding design, which caused the OLED panel at the folded position to be easily pulled, affecting the durability of the phone. It is said that Huawei's third-generation folding mobile phone mateX2 will improve this problem and adopt a top-to-bottom folding design, which may mean that it also believes that the outward-folding design is not appropriate. It is currently unknown whether mateX2 will use a glass cover.
Baiming Technology believes that because Samsung masters the core technology of folding mobile phones, it can quickly improve the technology of folding OLED panels; the folding OLED panel technology of Huawei mobile phones is subject to BOE, which causes its folding mobile phone technology iteration to be much slower than Samsung. It is expected next year When Huawei mobile phone releases the third-generation folding mobile phone mateX2, Samsung will release the fourth-generation folding mobile phone. Technically, Samsung should be ahead of Huawei.
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