Linus, you may not see this comment but if you do. There was a leak that Honor (The company that was forced to leave Huawei if it wanted to sell in the West) is making their own version of the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate. It most likely will look the same, but would probably be sold in western markets unlike the Huawei. Which means it'll have all the Google play services you want.
I have the honor Magic V3 right now and very happy With it, and very pleased that i have Android and Google PlayStore on it. And vs my old Samsung fold 4 the Magic OS system is so much netter then the Samsung one.
@@LabergemusicNo they don’t? BBK’s OnePlus can barely be described as American, Honor doesn’t sell in the US and is mainly based in the UK and developing markets in Europe. Xiaomi is just Xiaomi. Polestar bought Meizu and doesn’t sell it anywhere else. Who is “they all”? Worst country in the world for tech, lol.
well apple hasn't actually raised the pricing for the base model pro iphone since the iphone X in 2017. they just added expensive pro max versions with a terabyte of memory on top.
Oh definitely, I eventually came across unbox therapy and watched them for a bit but quickly saw through all of the fake enthusiasm and saw how fake their reviews were. Its been years since
It literally uses two DDIC to drive a single panel with 6 different zones in total. That's why if you're using 1/3 of the screen, the battery life is similar to a non-foldable phone. Because it can control how much zone it actually drive. And somehow they keep the consistency of quality through 6 zones. So I think 90Hz is totally acceptable considering one manufacturer still treat high refresh rate as a function to divide their normal and Pro series.🤣
You CAN install full GMS on the Mate XT via MicroG services. There are video tutorials on RU-vid (Average logs) on how to install microG on HarmonyOS4.2. I did this on my old Mate X3. Average Dad RU-vid channel has a video with full GMS on his Mate XT.
depends what you consider an tablet. for me an ipad mini is already tablet size, so the good old foldables are enough of a phablet for me, at half the price too.
I *would not* daily foldable because all of them are infinitely more fragile and less repairable than a typical slabphone let alone something like a Fairphone 5. Maybe as a laptop-replacement on trips tho! 🤙
@@iAmNothingnessOnly a couple of instances out of thousands being sold. And Huawei has replaced them all. But anyway only anti China propaganda sites would spin the narrative into somehow being a widespread issue
@@iAmNothingness Never said it's durable. However, it definitely innovative unlike an extra button or slightly better camera that no one cares about. It's a luxury product like a expensive fragile watch.
@@iAmNothingness As long as you understand that this channel doesn't do reviews, just overviews, then it's fine. And yes, it does seem pretty fragile and has no IP protection, so it's basically a toy at this point, and you don't even need to see a review to realize that. Still VERY COOL!
Just so you know, there are a few workarounds to install Google Play Services in this phone (some YT channels have videos on it). It's definitely not ideal, but it isn't impossible and doesn't require root or a different ROM. All of Huawei's optimizations remain intact. Also, if I had to guess, the autorotate bug is on RU-vid itself. I've seen reviewers playing games and using other apps where it rotates as you would expect.
That's true, it's very easy. Basically you only have to install 3 apks to get all of your apps working (except of Google Wallet Android Auto) For Google Wallet I use Curve now... which is even much better. And instead of having Android Auto I have now a full Android 14 box connected to my KIA EV6 witches also much better than only having Android Auto. Just to add ...Huawei Mate XT has IP68 rating
@@xerosclall apps i have tested are working... (~130)even my Banking Apps. Only Google Wallet and Android Auto are not working.You are so have 5G modem with the Kirin 9010
I'm stoked for this to come down to earth in price. It happened with smart phones and phones with nice cameras and 4g, and 5g so hopefully those early adopters keep early adopting
@@demofighter it has pretty much happened with the folds considering their used price, i bought my fold 4 last year for £320 with a discount code refurbished, its still going strong and honestly if it breaks in a year i dont mind spendingg £300-400 a year on a phone, especially if i can keep upgrading to new folding phones.
Same. I miss the days where everything felt so innovative and boundary pushing and seeing things like this phone or some of the things Elon is up to, I get so excited
Not to mention the new iPhone 16's are still using USB-C 2.0 transfer speed stuck in the year 2000 , is like riding a tricycle on the freeway while other smartphones zoom by in sports cars with USB 3.0 or 3.1. If you're transferring data, you might want to start a hobby-maybe knitting-because those newer models will have your files moved before you can say "grandpa tech"!
1:36 huawei was a copy cat?if i remember correctly samsung is the one who copied from huawei like variable aperture, periscope camera, reverse wireless charging and it was also the first to introduce ultra wide band image signal processors which could provide ultra quality images
Yea I have no idea why he say huawei is copy cat. They literally are the best 5g provider right now ( The main reason why they got ban by usa). Also the first company to introduce dual/tri camera, night vision, first phone to use AI in phone and much more. Their Kirin chips already beat snapdragon for 2 gen straight before the ban
and I'm sure their phones are breaking in conditions more favorable than negative 10C, as I can see new phones breaking out of the box over the Great Firewall lol
Super cool! Iv been a fold user for the last two years and im hooked, one of my favourite things is just blowing poeples minds unfolding in front of them to show them a photo or something, currently on a pixel fold 1 and absolutly loving it.
Hats off to Huawei. After all their ban and limitations in the western market, they still continue to make amazing products. They even have a new phone OS coming up which I'm excited to see in person.
I think my favorite thing about both LTT and DBrand is the on going frenemy relationship that pops up in basically every video where dbrand is involved.
I have the p30 pro's little brother (the p30). I switched to a xiaomi due to my battery deteriorating, but man that thing is still my favorite phone ever.
Its a Huawei, you can easily bootloader unlock them, and use Magisk to force the google services onto it. I've done it with many over seas devices. Rooting also does not hurt optimization, if anything, you can use it to make the phone better.
Unlocking and rooting does break secure payment and high security apps like banking apps sadly :( At least that's the case for phones here in NA, not sure about Chinese/Huawei phones.
Hmmm....if only I can try it out on a current Huawei phone. If I can install Google services seamlessly, and can survive everything I throw at it, then I might consider switching to a Huawei as my next phone (I currently own a Mi 10 Ultra with 120W charging)
In the past ten years, Huawei has invested more than 1.11 trillion yuan in research and development expenses. As of the end of 2023, Huawei holds more than 140,000 valid authorized patents around the world. Some people call a company like this a copycat brand, how ridiculous.
They used to copy Samsung designs quite a bit, though. I can remember when the Ascend Mate came out, and everyone was like 'ah they copied the Galaxy Note 2'. I think their motivation at the time was 'very similar product for much cheaper', also reflected in their slogan if I recall correctly. Of course, everyone has been copying everyone all the time since we changed to touchscreen, so that is no surprise; but the point that they have come a long way from a cheaper copycat to where they are now, still holds.
This whole device is based off of stolen technology they paid $12 million for. Alot of those patents were similar technology from other companies that they patented in areas that competitors hadn't filled in yet. Sure Huawei has done some good engineering and probably have their own patents but they are still fundamentally a copy cat brand
@@peperoni_pepino The Three-fold is copied as well. Samsung have similar one in 2019. They just didn't Mass-manufactured it FOR the same reason why this Huawei phone Fail.
@@JoséFerIzaparraga I'm definitely not an apple fan, but I don't understand why everyone keeps saying this. It's a trackpad. They put a lil trackpad on their phone. I'm not saying it's good, and I'll never know cause I ain't going to switch to an iphone, but it is a new thing to try out. Especially for apple who tries to market something that everyone else has been doing for 3 years as a new innovation
@@AirIsLungFoodThe fingerprint reader on the back of old Xiaomi devices was also a trackpad. Not very useful though, IDK about apple's implementation. Obviously this is not a fair comparison as apple products are on a completely different price category but a trackpad on a phone is not apple's invention. I totally get premium phones though, now that I can afford flagship Samsungs I won't go back to cheap Xiaomis, but they served their purpose very well for me, for many years.
I'm kinda glad Huawei didn't release this phone before I bought my Pura 70 ultra, because I would have definitely spent the extra money on it. Just a piece of fabulous art.
The most shocking thing, is the fact they coded the UI, to also be useable in english. Despite it being china exclusive. Like I get it, most people from out of china, working in china. Earn fat stacks, but it goes to show. The engineers of Huawei, deserve all the praises they can get.
That's built in to the OS when they build their OS off of the Android Open Source code tree. Of course it's definitely a built from the ground up "Chinese homegrown" OS. :rolleyes:
If you are in china and making those stacks you're probably doing business in non china places and already know English, being able to hand your phone to a business contact to check something out on it makes sense and assuming it is android 90% of the code would be pre existing for most common languages anyway, minimal work for more usability.
This is defo a head-turner in public use. I remember I was using a folding phone here at least in South East Asia while sitting somewhere on a shopping mall last year (2023), and oh mannn everyone that passed by me was looking on the folding phone I was holding. Fun times!!
Fold phones aren't a head turner, I went to a concert a few weeks ago and saw 3 other people with one. Also fold phones makes it look like you're the grandma who is taking pictures with an ipad.
@Stevo.100 yeah that is also true, we all have different experiences and from my exp it kinda irritates me when people passing by looks at my folding phone so I also wish that people won't turn their heads whenever they see one
When I got my first Huawei phone(p30) i realized how innovative they really were. They had really good gesture controls, a good windowed thing, volume bar, etc. they had all these qol things before Samsung or Apple.
They would have taken over the phone market, that's why they banned them. I still have my P10 64GB I purchased new in 2017. MicroSD, 3,5mm jack, OIS, 4k video recording, front-mounted proper fingerprint reader which could also control the navigation functions so they don't take up screen space. I have been using it for 6 years, but unfortunately last year I dropped it in the toilet 😭It works fine but the screen is dead and it's nearly impossible to get an original screen, and I know aftermarket ones are bad since I have several of them 😂
@@jacquesb5248 I mean there's no real difference for us europeans: iPhone = american spyware, Huawei = chinese spyware. At least Huawei makes better phones.
Unlike Linus said, you can actually use all Google apps and services on Huawei. You just have to do that through the layer of virtualization. For instance, in Russia they provide this solution right out of the box(you just have to start Google app through another app first, but after that you can have an icon on the desktop and run it like if it's native) , when I bought my Huawei tablet I was really concerned about Google apps. But now I'm 3 months in and find myself only using Gmail and RU-vid. And, moreover, it appears to be so much more power efficient without that Google "bloatware". In addition, I've also seen guides in russian about making all Google services to run almost natively(without virtualization) , strange that Linus couldn't find that stuff in english... 🤔
U want one of them, and I want you to understand why they kept a 7Nm chip in that, If it was other company that got banned it would have dissappear like many brands did, but Huawei never gave up,so I say that 7nm processor, who cares they made impossible possible so I respect the 7nm Kirin.
Its not bad even. I mean yeah peak petformance is not there. But every day usage thanks to software optimization is so good that you might only notice it on very heavy games or longer rendering times for videos if you cut videos on such devices.
12:37 You can add Google services to it, I followed a youtube tutorial, apps auto update and all but I'm having issues with maps, not sure if its the phone or the app
it's not an advanced technology at all. However his point is that most manufacturers simply don't go the extra mile to make that happen. I'm sure if Samsung did that on the fold, it would become so boring and insignificant.
1:54 I loved having IR emitter on my old Huawei phone. It was perfect in hotels because fuck touching those gross remotes. It takes up so little space, I wish other manufacturers would keep that old school thing around.
Most hotels wipe down the remotes as part of the cleaning process as well as most of their remotes having anti-bacterial coatings built-in. As for using them in hotels, that makes sense since most hotel remotes don't allow you to switch sources though if you happened to want to use a Chromecast or Roku device instead of crappy cable or whatever paid crap is on the TVs.
Ah yeah I get the cold thing. We have a walk in freezer and you have to use specific plastic containers inside because some become brittle and disintegrate in your hands lol. The wheels on the steel cages also lock up because any kind of moisture freezes and expands in the tiny gaps in the bearings. Can't imagine what that would do to a phone that thin with hinges with super tight tolerances.
@@JoséFerIzaparraga Use a up to date chip at least instead of a chip from 2020? Oh they can't since you can't buy any..... Oh you will never have up to date chip ever since you can't buy a ASML machine? Do you even know what that is? It's not like Samsung can't make something even better if they want but why? It has zero use in real world. You drop it once and your phone is broke. Can't put a cover because of the stupid design.
@@gloriousrunningpotato then all phones/pads in the world are whether CCP spy devices or FBI/CIA spy devices, let alone most of the non chinese brands smartphones are still mostly made in china lol
Watching Linus excitedly talking about this incredible piece of technology is like watching someone seeing a Harry Mack's Omegle Bars video for the first time.
This is a really interesting milestone. That's a practical demo that a market scale production of a device that is both a reasonable phone and reasonable tablet all in one can be made. I think whoever can pack a reasonably useful tablet and single hand phone into the same physical package is going to create a new subset of mobile devices that are truly 2 in 1 functionality, it'll be a new kind of market after smart phones enabled their hybrid of that and laptop which created the market for tablet computers in the first place.
With the work flow at LMG, Linus could have been filming this anything up to two weeks ago. I don't know if that pre-dates the flood of returns but it makes sense of a lot of "Linus doesn't mention..." comments. Correction: he had the iPhone in last week's WAN but not the week before.
@@makavelisgadgetreview8089 the reason people in China like the apple more is because it's lighter with one hand and you actually get returns with apple over there. Huawei’s is more like 50/50 and sometimes they won't answer at all
Huawei was a leader in their businesses for many things. In terms of phone camera advantages, battery and a not so bad Kirin SoC. Samsung was and is still faaaaar behind with their Exynos series. Cell phone carrier antennas and other products were in use by nearly all major carriers. With the latest smartphone products begining with the P50 Pro, P60 Pro and P70, you can still use Google services. Helped by a software (microg) funded by the german Goverment :-) The Mate Xs(2/3) foldables were very cool, the new XT is an amazing masterpiece.
I'd love to see a drawing tablet roundup from Sarah or some of the other designers on the team! I feel like that's the one corner of the tech space they've never really covered
There are a bunch of artist focused devices reviewers out there. Brad Colbow, Teoh Yi Chie, Yan Sculpts are some of the more famous ones. They are artists and they know what artists want. Things like pen line wobbling control, shoe stringing, surface glare and surface texture roughness, etc. LTT is not the right channel for reviewing Wacon, Huion, XP-Pen, Xcenlabs products
Trust me, I want it too, or the Pura 70, I would love to have a phone like Huawei Pura with the Kirin glass, no more screen protector, and if I got a backplate that was not in glass or ceramic I would also have no need for a stupid case either
In their early years when they were just getting into the market, they copied the tried and true designs to build up the brand, which I see absolutely nothing wrong with that, if things ain't broke don't fix it, there are brands that died because they thought they could reinvent the wheel @@alysander1439
Linus: **Glazes a phone for 14 mins** Nah fr this phone is legitimately one of the coolest pieces of tech this channel has shown. Damn near a pocket sized tablet.
You have to applaud Huawei that they can innovate to this level in complete isolation, if it wasn't for the ridiculous ban they would still be the number one smartphone manufacturer in the world today.
Dont think its fair to call huawei copycats. They really paved the way for: Fast charging, telescopic lenses, lightning fast under screen fingerprint readers, long runtimes, all while having really competitive prices and a good clean UI. Always something new and unique, he kirin processors were pretty impressive in real life use. They beat samsung on every mark for a while. Too bad they are a chinese company with all the implications that followed.
Linus not knowing what aurora store was so funny to me, for who doesn't know it's just an open source front end for the play store, if you want to degoogle it's nice to have.
personally i can see this being the future. there isn't alot of stuff that a laptop can do that a phone can't i can imagine just kicking this thing out and hooking up one of them shitty keyboards like the ipad has and just having a pocketable laptop essentially. as just a day to day phone i don't think i'd ever unfold it other than maybe watching some youtube in bed.
@@jingyangshi8393 not agreeing or disagreeing with why they were banned - its just funny that a spy picture was inside of a Huawei box from a company who were suspected of spying.
You need to change that Thumbnail. I was about to skip over the video on my home feed because I didn't realise it was from short-circuit. Add Linus' face or something otherwise this might underperform.
Dude, I want this thing so bad. Not only do you get an awesome landscape aspect ratio for media consumption, but I didn’t even consider until now the great vertical aspect ratio for being a giant e-reader or web surfer. Can’t justify the price currently but I am praying that other players adopt a similar construction eventually.
It’s become a meme in china because users have figured out it’s trash but for some reason all tech reviewers in Europe and America are promoting it as something groundbreaking.
Huawei was my favorite third party phone back when I worked at Best Buy during college. They just make such good products and I’m sort of mad they’re not allowed anymore.
For some reason the three fold makes me more excited than the 2 one. This format works for enlarging your screen. I imagine opening this like a police badge would be fun.
As a person living in China I have already tried the Huawei Mate XT and think it's absolutely amazing. It's so thin and feels so amazing in the hand. But 19,999RMB may be affordable for western people but for the most people living in China this is as much as they make in 4 months.
😂 OK. How many people complain about not affording one out here. And how many of these are on pre order? Quit making it like everyone in china's still farming and eating sweet potatoes. Like any luxury product it's targeted for a specific market. And who's the biggest consumer of luxury products these days.
@@sheepXYM I don’t make 20K RMB in one month because I work as a software engineer. But many people that work as meituan deliverers or drive people (DiDi or Taxi) only make 4K RMB per month.
fun fact,all the *alpha tester* or people that buy this to use it in china experience the same exact thing the screen randomly commit suicide without any physical damage and yes huawei refused to warranty it,enjoy the 2800 dollar paperweight knowing Huawei, repairing this thing is probably a pain in the ass,just repairing some of them in the pass,their design decision is questionable and sometimes plain stupid
1:33 would like to correct you on that for Huawei creating: 2013, The first smartphone with a 5 MP front camera. 2016, The first dual camera system. 2018, The first triple camera lens setup. 2018, The first to introduce night mode. 2018, The first one to announce 7nm cpu. 2019, The first telephoto lens with a periscope lens also the first one to release 10x optical zoom. 2023, Kunlun Glass 2, strongest glass.
I couldn't justify the cost, but having had a Fold 3, Fold 4, and now a Pixel Fold, I love the execution here. But I have zero trust for Chinese devices or even US brands, which is why my Pixel Fold runs GrapheneOS.
