Stuff - UK (2020-04)

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FIRST TEST HUAWEI MATE XS

Fold your attention

This phone is striking – unfold it

and folks will gawk. We’ve been

stopped in the street, interrupted

on a train and cross-examined by

a waiter while using it. And turning

it from phone to tablet is a more

seamless experience than with

Samsung’s Galaxy Fold.

Break the fold

We didn’t manage to break our

Xs even after a couple of fumbles.

Still, although we tried to avoid

putting it on scratchy surfaces

and generally mollycoddled it,

there were a couple of minor

dings visible at certain angles

by the end of our week of testing.

Unfold stories

The Kindle app showcases the

Mate Xs’s excellence beautifully,

as books go from ‘tall’ to ‘tablet’

for a much better read on the

big screen. Magazines are also

handled superbly. The AMOLED

screen pops colourful pages with

panache, and the size is spot-on.

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