As expected, Huawei held a big event today. At the conference, the leading China-based technology company discovered several new products, including a new flip smartphone. The Huawei Pocket S has been talked about for a while. Now it’s officially out.
During the event, the company’s spokesperson said that Huawei is an absolute leader in the domestic folding screen smartphone market. It occupies 52% of the Chinese market. So, when buying foldable handsets, one in two prefers Huawei.
The key to success is that Huawei continuously improves the performance of its foldable smartphones. Improvements are in every aspect, including structure, design, and overall experience. “Huawei will continue to break through technology bottlenecks and lead the industry in innovation.”
Appearance of the Huawei Pocket S
The Huawei Pocket S inherits the design style of the previous Huawei P50 Pocket. It adopts top-down folding solution. Compared to the previous model, it is overall lighter, thinner and more compact.
What we love is that the new model offers up to 6 colorways. They include Obsidian Black, Frost Silver, Mint Green, Sakura Pink, Primrose Gold, and Ice Crystal Blue. Thus, any customer can find a color option that meets their preferences.
As for the folding structure, it features the industry’s first multi-dimensional linkage lifting teardrop hinge. It forms a teardrop-shaped screen gap at the point of flex. As a result, it is more comfortable to hold.
At the same time, it uses various innovative materials such as zirconium liquid metal. Additionally, the MIM steel material achieves the highest strength in the industry. It is self-developed by “Huawei Super Materials Laboratory”. This material is impact resistant, dimensionally stable, resistant and durable.
Overall, Huawei Pocket S can withstand 400,000 repeated foldings. So even if it is folded 200 times a day, it can last more than five years.
Screens
The 6.9-inch foldable display has essentially the same width on all sides and a screen ratio of 21:9. It has a pixel density of 442ppi for ultra-clear content display. In addition, the screen supports 1.07 billion colors, P3 wide color gamut color management, intelligent refresh rate adjustment up to 120Hz, ultra-high touch sampling rate up to 300Hz and 1440Hz PWM dimming.
On the back, there is also a small external screen. Together with the rear camera, they form a Vientiane double ring design. You can easily view notifications, phone calls, photos, weather and other apps without unfolding. At the same time, you can also perform other operations, such as payments.
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It is a 1.04-inch 340×340 circular OLED display. By the way, the main display has a resolution of 2790×1188 and also uses OLED hardware.
The phone also supports HDR Vivid video display, with richer colors and layers and stronger contrast between light and dark. At the same time, it also adopts anti-reflective nano-optical film, which can also display content clearly under direct sunlight.
Imaging system
The Huawei Pocket S features a super-detection imaging system and an RYYB super-detection sensor. The latter increases the amount of incoming light by 40%.
The camera features a super-detection 40-megapixel 1/1.7-inch RYYB sensor. It has an aperture of f/1.8. At the same time, there’s a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera (f/2.2 aperture) and a laser focus sensor. The camera supports the Huawei XMAGE imaging system.
You can use the Huawei Pocket S to take a selfie with the 10.7-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera (f/2.2 aperture). And for this you do not need to unfold the phone. You can also double-tap the screen to switch to ultra wide-angle mode. This will allow multiple photos to be taken.
Huawei Pocket S’s super-sensitive sensor works with a new night scene algorithm to optimize light and shadow texture.
Hardware and performance
The Huawei Pocket S adopts the industry’s first ultra-cool flexible graphene heat dissipation system. The cross-axis graphene heat-conducting layer conducts efficient cross-axis heat conduction, and the heat conduction area is increased by 80%.
Besides that, inside you can find a Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 4G processor. We understand that it’s not the most powerful chipset on the market. But the Snapdragon 778G proved its high performance class. In fact, this phone does not focus on performance. So what this processor offers and is capable of doing is satisfactory.
Our protagonist has a 4000 mAh battery. The latter supports 40W fast charging. Simply put, the phone could reach 52% power in 20 minutes.
Regarding connectivity, the Huawei Pocket S has a great antenna signal. Also, it supports Wi-Fi 6. Here we should focus more on the antenna design. The phone adopts a new antenna design, which allows users to use it in an unfolded or folded state. Now there is no difference in what you do for the handset. You can hold it with one hand, play games, browse web pages, etc. It will freely change antenna to provide users with a smoother network communication experience.
Huawei Pocket S price and availability
There are three variants to choose from: 8GB + 128GB = 5,988 yuan ($822), 8GB + 256GB = 6,488 yuan ($891), and the price of 8GB + 512GB is 7,488 yuan ( $1,028). The presale of the first two models has already started. They will start shipping on November 10. However, the 512GB version will go on sale in December.
