In this issue, we compare Xiaomi MIX Fold 3, Huawei Mate X5, OPPO Find N3, Honor Magic V2, vivo X Fold2, and Honor V Purse six folding screen models, and briefly introduce the Honor Magic Vs2. (Click on the video below to watch)
Price comparison
Let's look at the price and color scheme first. Huawei has the most complete color and memory versions, and it is also the only one with a starting price of more than 10,000 yuan. The Honor Magic V2, Xiaomi, and Vivo are roughly at the same price point. The Honor Magic Vs2 and V Purse are the cheapest inward and outward folding models at this stage. Just looking at the price, which folding screen do you prefer?
appearance
In terms of large screen size, we use the Honor V Purse outer screen to compare the inner screen of the inward-folded model, Xiaomi and vivo are the largest in size, and the display area of over 8 inches is not inferior to the mini small tablet. In other words, the large screen and split-screen gameplay of the tablet are expected to be experienced on the folding screen.
In terms of small screen size, we use the main screen of the Honor V Purse when folded to compare the outer screen of the inward-folded model, the Xiaomi outer screen is the largest and most slender, which is more suitable for watching the information waterfall. OPPO's outer screen is the smallest, inheriting the characteristics of the series' short outer screen and suitable for one-handed holding. The OPPO outer screen is only 0.25 inches smaller than the Xiaomi, and it has little impact on daily use.
The five inward-folding models are available in both glass and plain leather.
Among the glass back plate models, Huawei's feather yarn back plate has the strongest anti-fingerprint ability. There is no significant difference in the plain leather back plate. vivo puts together the two materials of plain leather glass, which has a special feel.
When folded, the front and back sides of the Honor V Purse are covered by an outer screen, revealing a plain leather lining when unfolded, which looks stylish and technological.
All six folding screens use metal frames, and the Honor Magic Vs2 is replaced with a polymer frame for weight reduction. In terms of details, vivo supports ultrasonic fingerprints on the inner and outer screens, and the unlocking posture is more natural, which is convenient for use when wet hands or oily stains, and the other five models are side fingerprints. OV also has a physical mute button, which makes it more convenient to switch between mute modes.
The five inward-folded models all use teardrop-shaped hinges to protect the flexible screen, which looks tight after folding, and after a period of use, only vivo can clamp a piece of A4 paper without falling. The Honor V Purse butterfly wing hinge is more similar to the hinge on a door, with a thinner shape and a noticeable damping feeling when unfolded, which can prevent the screen from breaking off with too much force.
In terms of weight, the Honor V Purse is the lightest, which is related to the fact that it only comes with a large screen. The second is the Honor Magic Vs2, which is replaced with a rare earth magnesium alloy frame and a polymer frame, which has a significant weight reduction effect and is the lightest inward folding model. Further down are Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor Magic V2, three thin and light folding models, and OPPO, which is short in length and small in size, all weighing around 250g. The heaviest is vivo, which uses the traditional large-size folding screen design.
In terms of thickness, in the unfolded state, the Honor V Purse body is the thinnest, and in terms of lens thickness, the Honor Magic V2 is the thinnest.
In the folded state, the Honor V Purse is only 9.1mm thick when folded due to its outward folding structure, which is the thinnest and lightest of the six folding screens. In the folded state, the camera bulge of the Honor V Purse is the least obvious, and even if it is tucked into the trouser pocket, it will not be scratched, and it feels the best to carry.
Large-screen crease control is undoubtedly more concerned. Our six models have been used for a while, and they can reflect the crease look and feel of daily use. After unfolding, turn off the screen to look at the creases, and the OPPO creases are the densest. We compare how much the crease distorts the side light. As you can see, the Xiaomi crease is the deepest, and the OPPO and Honor V Purse are the shallower. At the same brightness, the Honor Magic V2's crease has a noticeable impact on the visual perception of pure white content, but the impact on color switching is much smaller.
screen
In terms of screen, the large screen resolutions of the six models are as follows, with the OPPO having the highest resolution and the vivo having the lowest resolution. The OPPO picture details are clearer, and daily use is more pleasing to the eye.
The six folding screen small screens all belong to the 1080P screen variant, and the gap between daily use is not obvious. OPPOThe resolution is also higher than the other five models,Considering that its outer screen is small,But the resolution is the highest,The display effect is naturally the most refined。
Next, look at the brightness performance of the large screen, in terms of manual brightness, OPPO has the lowest brightness, and Honor V Purse has the highest brightness. In general indoor use cases, the Honor V Purse performs better in brightness. In terms of auto-brightness, the Honor Magic V2 has the lowest brightness, and the Oppo also has the highest brightness. Under sunlight, the OPPO inner screen display is clearer.
In terms of manual brightness on small screens, the Honor Magic V2 has the lowest brightness, and the Honor V Purse has the highest brightness. In terms of auto-brightness, the Honor V Purse has the lowest brightness, while the Honor Magic V2 has the highest brightness. Even when reading documents outdoors in bright light, the Honor Magic V2 can see clearly.
In terms of refresh rate, Xiaomi, Huawei, OPPO, vivo, and Honor Magic V2 have 120Hz inside and outside screens, and Honor V Purse has 90Hz on the outer screen. Among them, Huawei (Collector's Edition and Standard Edition 16GB version) and Honor Magic V2 both support LTPO adaptive refresh rate on the internal and external screens, while Xiaomi supports the internal screen. Considering that the large screen itself is a large power consumer, the battery life of Huawei and Honor Magic V2, which support LTPO on both internal and external screens, is more worth looking forward to.
Xiaomi's color mode adjustment options and color temperature options are the richest, and its main professional primary color mode supports multi-screen same color for some Xiaomi products, so you won't feel obvious chromatic aberration when viewing the preview. Both Xiaomi and Oppo can adapt colors to ambient light. Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor, and vivo can also manually adjust the color through the color temperature ball.
For folding screen models, eye protection is equally important. In terms of large screen, the Honor Magic V2 supports up to 3840Hz PWM dimming, which can minimize the flickering of low-brightness OLED screens.
Then look at the large screen to see the display and cropping of the video. 16:9 is the most commonly used ratio for monitors, and the vast majority of videos are 16:9. When watching the 16:9 sample, the large screen is displayed vertically by default, and the video display area of the five inward-folded models is basically the same, which is larger than that of the Honor V Purse and the straight board machine, and the Honor V Purse has the largest black bar area, while the OPPO has the smallest black bar area.
The area displayed horizontally is significantly larger than that displayed vertically and larger than that of the straight machine. Due to the 16:9 fixed ratio, the longer the screen, the larger the video display area. The Vivo has the largest display area, the OPPO has the smallest, the OPPO has the largest black bar, and the Honor V Purse has the smallest.
The film shows that the ratio is mainly 21:9, which is more slender. When the large screen is displayed vertically, the video display area of the straight board machine is the largest, and then there are five inward-folded models, the smallest is the Honor V Purse, vivo has the largest black bar area, and OPPO has the smallest black bar area.
The same is true for the horizontal display area, with the vivo having the largest display area and the smallest for the OPPO, the OPPO having the largest black bar and the Honor V Purse having the smallest. Watch 21:9 video, whether it is the default large-screen vertical display, or horizontally, the actual display area is not as large as the straight board machine, it is better to use a small screen to watch the movie. In other words, at present, everyone uses the folding screen to watch videos and movies, and the experience is still relatively chicken. However, if you use a large screen to view documents, the experience is more obvious.
We put the same test document without paragraph separation in the six folding screen models and straight board machines, open it with WPS, turn on the option to adapt to the mobile phone, and compare how many complete words can be displayed on the internal and external screens of the mobile phone in different display modes, and the results are as follows:
When the phone is folded and only displayed on a small screen, only Xiaomi and vivo can display significantly more words than the straight board. The font size displayed on the external screen of these two models is smaller, and the viewing experience is limited.
Switch to the large screen to view, when viewed vertically, the folding screen and the large screen can display about twice the number of words of the straight board machine. As with folding, the larger the screen, the more words, the smaller the font. The same is true for landscape display, but the font size is smaller than portrait display. The number of words that can be displayed in the document on the large screen of Xiaomi is the largest, and the least is displayed by OPPO.
Reading documents on a large screen, even if the word is the smallest Xiaomi, its font size is not smaller than that of a straight board machine. If you like to use a large screen to read documents, you can experience higher information density if you choose Xiaomi, Huawei, etc., which have a larger number of words, and choose Honor V Purse and OPPO, which have larger fonts, are more eye-friendly, and the number of words that can be displayed is also far greater than that of a straight board machine.
system
When it comes to folding screens, large-screen applications can't be adapted. In addition, the application adaptation scenarios that need to be considered for large folding screen models also include hover interaction on the inner screen, hover photography, rear camera selfie, application split screen, etc. In terms of large screen adaptation,We have selected13Commonly used first-party application scoring comparison,Adapting to the large screen supports left and right hierarchical display to get 2 points (a certain function support is also counted),Adapting to the large screen but can only display more content gets 1 point,Violent stretching of the large screen is not scored。 The Oppo scored the highest, while the Xiaomi scored the lowest.
According to the adaptation list given by each official website, we have expanded 25 commonly used third-party applications, which support 3 points for parallel vision left and right comparison, 2 points for supporting left and right hierarchical display, 1 point for adapting to a large screen but only displaying more content, and no points for violent stretching of a large screen. The Honor V scored the highest in the Purse and the Xiaomi had the lowest score.
In actual experience, Huawei and Honor have the best parallel vision comparison function, whether it is DingTalk opening two sets of sessions at the same time or e-commerce software price comparison, it is very easy to use. OPPO and vivo are compatible with the left and right levels, and have the widest range of support. Based on the scores of first-party and third-party applications, OPPO has done the best job in adapting to the large screen of applications. The five inward-folding models support the hovering of the inner screen application, which is mainly used for video and audio progress adjustment, multi-person video conferencing and PPT presentation, etc., making full use of half of the inner screen to achieve an effect similar to Apple's TouchBar. We have expanded the hover support list of each app to 20 apps, and compared the app hover compatibility of the five inward folding models. In fact, vivo supports the most hovering applications on the inner screen, which is more than twice as much as the least Honor Magic V2, making it more convenient to use hovering in daily life.
1. During rear hover shooting, the five inward-fold models put the viewfinder on the upper half of the screen by default, and the rest of the operation options on the lower half of the screen. Honor Magic V2、Xiaomi and vivo have a larger viewing window on the lower half of the screen,Easy to view or delete photos and videos,They also support the upper and lower screens to swap positions,Simulate the top viewfinder effect,After the swap, the lower half of the screen is no different from the straight board machine,The upper half of the screen is a larger photo and video viewing window。 In the hovering state, Xiaomi and Honor Magic V2 can view more photos at the same time, Xiaomi can not only display the duration of video footage, but also the largest display area after switching to the upper half of the screen. In split-screen mode, the Honor Magic V2 and V Purse have the largest number of photos displayed on the left half. All five inward-folding models support switching to rear portrait selfies, and Huawei and Honor need to turn on rear portrait selfies in two steps. The Honor V Purse uses a folded back screen preview. When shooting rear portraits, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Honor can all turn on dual-screen simultaneous display, which is convenient for communication with the subject. OPPO is the clearest and most convenient to switch between the six models for the three functions of expanding the split-screen shooting interface, rear portrait selfie, and dual-screen simultaneous display.
In addition, large screen split screen is also a common use scenario for folding screens. All six models support split screen for two apps on a large screen. Huawei, OPPO, and Honor can open split screen directly from the sidebar, which is the most convenient operation. All OPPO split-screen applications can choose to display full-screen or half-screen, and dual-split-screen can be divided into two half-screens, two full-screens, or one half-screen and one full-screen, and the two-screen can also take into account the large-screen experience.
OPPO can also drag out a third app from the global taskbar and sidebar to create multiple split screens. The third app can be displayed on the left and right sides of the other two apps, or on the top and bottom;
You can divide the top and bottom into two half-screen apps, with an app waiting on the left or bottom right, or open a full-screen app with a full-screen app waiting on the left and right sides and the top and bottom.
The location and size of each application is very flexible, and the application priority and secondary relationship is more clear. The most intuitive change is to reduce the application jump - for example, I can play the king with a full-screen application, open WeChat chat with the boss in another full-screen application on the right, open a document editing below, dock the boss + change the plan + play the game three correct, and do not need to switch the application frequently. Compared with the other five models, OPPO's multi-split screen significantly improves the efficiency of large screens. Xiaomi, Huawei, OPPO, and vivo support saving combinations, making it more convenient to call familiar applications again. Huawei, Honor, OPPO, and vivo support split screens up and down. Huawei, OPPO, and vivo support split-screen partition screenshots. The most classic use case for large-screen applications is to drag and drop to edit notepad content. In the editing state, Huawei text, photos, videos, audio, documents, and even installation packages under 200M can be dragged and dropped to Notepad on the split screen, and audio and video can also be played directly in Notepad.
In addition, app split screen is also often used with small windows and mini small windows, making it easier to switch between applications. Among them, Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor, and vivo can summon 2 small windows, and OPPO has 1. After Xiaomi opens the first mini window, you need to enlarge it into a small window before you can open the second mini window. Split screen and small window are matched, Xiaomi, Honor, OPPO, and vivo can display up to 4 apps at the same time on the inner screen, and Huawei has 3. Overall, OPPO has the highest app switching efficiency, and the other five apps have little difference in switching efficiency. Finally, let's take a look at the featured interactive features of vivo and Honor V Purse. X Fold2 is the only vivo phone that supports remote control PC function, which can be connected to a Windows computer through the vivo office suite and used for remote control using the external network. The remote control PC is an official function, free to experience, safe and stable, and completely sufficient for daily emergencies. The second is the Honor V Purse, which supports the main and secondary dual screen always-on display and the back screen call reminder. Double-clicking the back screen is the most important interactive feature of the Honor V Purse. In the actual measurement, only the area the size of a fingernail can be recognized on the back screen to knock out the payment code. It is hoped that the next-generation V Purse will expand the percussion recognition area for daily use.
photograph
The main camera configuration of the six models is as follows:
For the ultra-wide camera:
Telephoto Shooting Capability:
The Xiaomi and vivo also come with a portrait telephoto camera, which is more suitable for capturing from a distance and capturing more vivid expressions. The comprehensive configuration of vivo portrait camera is higher than that of Xiaomi. The Honor Magic V2 is also equipped with a dToF laser focusing system and a Flicker sensor, with a color temperature sensor, which can accurately focus, suppress photo flicker, and restore true colors. There is a difference between the paper configuration and the actual imaging, let's look at the group sample to feel it. In wide-angle scenarios, the Huawei and Honor Magic V2 have the widest viewing angle, while the Honor V Purse has the narrowest viewing angle. The Huawei subject is the brightest, and the Xiaomi has the highest contrast. There is little difference in distortion control between the six models. Zooming in to look at the trees on the edges, OPPO has the highest contrast, vivo has the highest tolerance, and the details are better restored.
Switching to 1x, the Oppo has the brightest subject, the vivo has the most vivid colors, the highest contrast, and the best light suppression, and the Huawei has a smaller angle of view. The color adjustment of the six models is different. Zooming in to see the subject, Huawei's color saturation is higher, vivo's dark part is the most tolerant, and the contrast between light and dark is more reasonable.
In general, in high-pixel mode, the size of a single pixel is small, and the light sensitivity will be a little worse. However, the imaging effect of these six models is not small. The vivo picture is the brightest, and the leaves in the upper right corner show more detail, but the blue sky is overexposed. The darkest OPPO is slightly underexposed. In contrast, the Honor's high-pixel exposure is a bit more balanced.
Zoom in to see the main part of the picture,All six models are sharpened by the algorithm to eliminate shaking,The edges of the large characters are relatively clear,Look up at the small characters of the round logo,vivoThe font is sharper,Zoom in to see the content clearly,The details are the best。
Looking at the telephoto end, Huawei's default optical zoom magnification is the highest, reaching 5x, and the lowest are vivo and Honor V Purse. Huawei not only has a high optical zoom ratio, but also brighter real-time shots. In the 2x scene, when shooting building details, the Honor V Purse is the brightest and the Xiaomi is the darkest. When the white clouds are shallow, vivo captures the bluest sky, the highest contrast, and the sharpest subject. The Xiaomi has the highest color saturation, while the Huawei is a bit dull. Zoom in to see the spire, the Honor V Purse is the most detailed. The vivo sky is the bluest and purest, which looks more comfortable, but the building outline has white edges, and the AI sharpening marks are more obvious.
5x telephoto indoors,Huawei is optical zoom,The veins of the leaves are clearly visible when you zoom in,Honor V Purse digital zoom is a little unbearable,The rest of the models more or less have AI sharpening traces。 Xiaomi has the brightest picture and verdant green leaves.
Finally, looking at the night scene, the Honor Magic V2 has the brightest picture and the Xiaomi is the darkest. Zoom in and look at the trees on the left, Honor Magic V2 and vivo not only have brighter pictures, but also have just the right amount of detail tolerance and layering. The night scene brightness performance of the six folding screens is not completely positively correlated with the area of the main camera sensor, which means that the algorithm will have a certain impact on night scene imaging. Zoom in to see the details of the font, the Huawei font has the best highlight suppression effect, and the Honor V Purse font is blue, and the smearing feeling is obvious. vivo is equipped with a self-developed V2 chip, which can optimize the dynamic range performance of night scenes, and the chiaroscuro contrast and detail control of the finished film are the most balanced, which is more durable than other models.
In terms of selfies, the five inward-folding models all have two front cameras on the inner and outer screens. The Honor V Purse exterior screen is equipped with an 8-megapixel selfie camera.
In terms of video shooting, vivo supports 8K/30fps, which is the highest shooting specs among the six models. Xiaomi is the only model that supports 1920 frames per second for slow-motion video. Thanks to HarmonyOS 4 support, Huawei and Xiaomi support multi-camera function, bringing more possibilities for short video creation. The Oppo has the widest video zoom range of the six models. In terms of image stabilization, Xiaomi and vivo both have three levels of image stabilization, Huawei and OPPO support two, and Honor has one. Honor V Purse does not support 4K/60FPS video
performance
In terms of performance, the chip configuration of the six models is as follows:
The computing power of Xiaomi and Honor Magic V2 chips is undoubtedly the first gear. Limited by size, the Honor V Purse uses the Snapdragon 778G mobile platform, which is no problem for daily use, and is not suitable for gaming. Antutu V10, Xiaomi scored the highest, the Huawei GPU part could not be detected, and the total score is for reference only.
GeekBench 5, single-core and multi-core are the highest in Xiaomi and the lowest in Huawei. GeekBench6, 3DMark, GFXBench scores are still the same. Judging from the running scores, Xiaomi's chip computing power and 3D graphics computing capabilities are the strongest. Huawei has just restarted the Kirin chip, which still needs to be optimized, and the future performance is also promising.
In terms of read and write speeds, Xiaomi has the highest sequential read speed, the Honor V Purse has the lowest, Vivo has the highest sequential write speed, and the Honor V Purse has the lowest. The vivo has the highest random read speed, the OPPO random write is the fastest, and the Honor V Purse has the lowest random read and write speed.
In terms of game experience, let's look at the low-load Glory of Kings first. The six folding screen hero selection interface can select 6 more heroes than one screen of the straight board machine, and there is no obvious difference in experience between them. Comparing the same position on the combat interface, the display range of the six models is as follows.
We turned on very high frame rate, ultra-high resolution, and HD quality, and played on the big screen for 30 minutes. The Honor Magic V2 has the highest frame rate. During gameplay, the front and back of the OPPO have the lowest temperature, and the Honor Magic V2 is the highest. Combined with the display range of the battle interface, the Honor Magic V2 is the most suitable for playing Honor of Kings.
Looking at the Peace Elite again, when selecting a map, the straight board machine can display 6 maps, and the six folding screens are 8 maps. After entering the game, Xiaomi's left and right display range is the largest, combined with the direction, to better determine the enemy's position. OPPO has the widest upper and lower range, making it easier to spot airdrop or room enemies on the ground.
We turned on the Extreme Frame Rate, HDR, Anti-Aliasing, and Shadow options, and played on the big screen for 30 minutes, with the highest frame rate on the Vivo and the lowest frame rate on the Honor V Purse. Due to the largest volume, vivo has the lowest heat generation on the front and back.
Combined with the in-game perspective, Xiaomi OPPO has the best experience of playing Peace Elite. Look at heavy load games again,Genshin Impact's six folding screen Genshin Impact character interface shows 3-5 more characters than the straight board machine,OPPO has the widest upper and lower range,Compared with the narrowest GloryV Purse, one more character can be displayed。
Game interface,The highest viewing angle of the six models display the upper and lower display range is similar to that of the straight board machine,The left and right range is greatly narrowed compared with the straight board machine,Honor V Purse has the widest range,Huawei is the narrowest。 The difference in the field of view of the six folding screens is not obvious, and the character display is larger after magnification, and the action effect is more distinct.
We set the screen brightness to 300nit, and under the condition of 60 frames in high image quality, we played on the large screen for 30 minutes, and the Huawei had the highest frame rate, and the Honor Magic V2 had the lowest frame rate. Compared with the flagship of the same configuration and the same brand, Huawei still leads in the frame rate. Due to the limitation of heat dissipation scale, the average frame rate of the remaining five folding screens is lower than that of the straight board flagship of the same brand.
We found that Huawei has turned on the forced system to insert frames, and the background of buildings can show a smooth look and feel of about 60 frames, but the frame rate of the characters looks lower, and the picture is slightly out of sync. Compared with Genshin Impact, the temperature on the front and back of Huawei is significantly lower than that of the other five models, with a maximum difference of 10 degrees on the back. Among the six models, Huawei Genshin Impact also has the lowest power consumption, which also confirms our judgment.
In terms of display effect, in addition to the default full-screen ratio, Xiaomi and vivo also support proportional display, Huawei, Honor, OPPO, and vivo support 16:9 and 4:3 ratios. If you don't like the default full-screen ratio, it's not impossible to play games at 4:3.
Charging range
In terms of charging range, Huawei has the largest battery capacity, and the Honor V Purse has the smallest battery capacity. Combined with the weight, whether it is the thin and foldable Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor Magic V2, or the main small OPPO, compared with the large-size vivo, the battery capacity is only large. Honor V Purse is more than 60 grams lighter than vivo, and it also puts down a 4500mAh battery, which shows that this year's new folding screen machine has made great progress in terms of internal space utilization.
In the case of using the large screen, daily light and moderate use, including web pages, videos, games, videos, etc., 5 tests for a total of 30 minutes, Huawei and Honor Magic V2 have the most remaining power, and there are 56% left after use. Xiaomi has the least remaining power, also at 47%. This achievement is not much different from the straight board machine, that is to say, the battery life no longer restricts the daily use of the folding screen.
In terms of charging, vivo supports 120W fast charging, which has the highest charging power, and the Honor V Purse has the lowest charging power. The measured charging speed, from 1% to 100% of the display, takes the shortest time for vivo and the longest time for Honor V Purse. The trickle is fully charged, which is still the fastest in vivo and the slowest in Honor V Purse. The vivo 120W charging speed is indeed powerful, which can significantly reduce charging anxiety.
Honor's sister model
Finally, a brief introduction to the Honor Magic Vs2. In addition to being lighter, the main parameters of the Honor Magic Vs2 and the core experience of the folding screen are similar to those of the V2. There is not much difference in terms of system interaction. In terms of details, Honor Magic Vs2 has made a lot of adjustments, and successfully hit the price to six or seven thousand yuan, becoming the most cost-effective new machine with an inner folding screen at this stage.
summary
"Xiaomi has the largest screen,The advantages of the folding screen are more balanced,But the compatibility of large screen applications is more general,You can wait for the surging OSpush,See what adaptation and optimization are there;Huawei's advantage lies in the large screen interaction mode,Kirin9000s can easily cope with general scenes,In addition, it is a thin and light body and a very mature Hongmeng system,But the biggest problem is still out of stock,The price is also very strong。 OPPO screen display is clear and delicate,The advantage lies in the new interaction mode in the split screen、A new interaction method that switches between the large screen and the application,The efficiency of the large screen is improved linearly,The addition of the periscope lens makes the folding screen also have a good shooting ability;Glory Magic V2 and Vs2 are the thinnest and lightest inward folding models at this stage,The advantage lies in the price,It can be said that it is a relatively balanced existence;vivo solid materials,It can also be regarded as the existence of a bucket machine in the folding screen;GloryV As the only outward folding model, Purse is relatively cheap and the thinnest, and it is a fashion item in the folding screen, but you should pay attention to protect this screen. ”