First, the preface: full-dimensional upgrade of the thin and light small folding Huawei Pocket 2 is here!
Huawei first released the small folding P50 Pocket in "vertical folding" form in 2021, and inherited the XD Fusion Pro primary color engine technology, and debuted the 32-megapixel hyper-spectral camera, which has achieved great success in the high-end women's market with great success.
In the field of folding phones, Huawei has always pursued innovation and explored new directions, and has always maintained its pursuit of quality, aesthetics, art and innovation.
In 2022, Huawei made the Pocket series independent, forming an exclusive product system with a vertical folding screen.
In 2024, the Huawei Pocket series returned with a full-focus quad camera, two-way satellite communication capabilities, and the world's first 40W wireless fast charging function. This "small fold", which combines a number of advanced technologies, is this year's most comprehensive vertically folded phone with a comprehensive experience, Huawei Pocket 2.
1, the industry's first basalt water drop hinge
Huawei Pocket 2 folding hinge adopts the industry's first Xuanwu water droplet hinge structure, significantly eliminating the gap in the structural components, the official said that the flatness will be increased by 62%, able to achieve the "ultimate flat", daily use you can hardly notice the existence of creases, even if the screen is used for long periods of time can also remain flat.
2, vertical folding phone first with four camera modules
Huawei Pocket 2 is the first ever vertical folding machine equipped with a quad camera module, not only integrated with a full focal length triple camera module, but also Huawei's first generation of vertical folding machine P50 Pocket on the highly acclaimed Hyper Spectrum Camera (second generation), which is able to capture the information of the invisible spectrum of the natural world, to capture more details in the imaging, so as to show a clearer and more accurate image reproduction capabilities, but also brings the ability of fluorescence photography and UV sunscreen detection.
3. Vertical folding cell phone first with two-way satellite communication
Huawei's first satellite communication function is used for the first time in a vertically folded cell phone, and Huawei Pocket 2 has become the first vertically folded cell phone with two-way satellite communication.
4. 40W wireless fast charging for the first time in a vertically folded cell phone
Huawei Pocket 2 is the first vertically folded cell phone to feature 40W wireless fast charging, which, together with the 66W wired fast charging that has the highest charging power of any vertically folded cell phone, constitutes the highest-power "dual fast charging" combination of any vertically folded cell phone to date.
Appearance: Basalt water drop hinge completely eliminates the screen crease Tahitian Gray color brings visual and tactile double sensory impact!
We received the Huawei Pocket 2 in Tahitian Gray, a design inspired by the Tahitian Black Pearl, which creates this 3D effect, but it's exceptionally smooth when you touch it, creating a strong visual and tactile sensory impact.
For the first time in a vertically folded phone, the Pocket 2 features a full-focus triple camera as well as a hyper-spectral camera, creating a powerful quad-camera system that also features a laser focus sensor.
Below the rear camera module is a 1.15-inch circular secondary screen, which also uses an LTPO substrate for a 1-60Hz adaptive refresh rate.
Huawei Pocket 2 is equipped with a 6.94-inch OLED screen on the front, supporting 10bit color depth, LTPO substrate, which can achieve 1-120Hz adaptive refresh rate, 300Hz touch sampling rate also supports 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming.
Secondly, combined with the hinge structure of the double-door version, unfolding the phone is as flat as a straight-screen phone, and the existence of creases can not be felt at all in daily use.
The phone's 10-megapixel front-facing camera sits in the center of the top, with a slit earpiece above it, as well as speaker capability, which forms a stereo soundstage with the speakers at the bottom.
The power fingerprint button and volume adjustment buttons are located on the right side of the body.
The folding hinge of Huawei Pocket 2 adopts the industry's first Xuanwu water droplet hinge structure, which significantly eliminates the gaps in the structural components, and the official statement says that it will increase the flatness by 62%, which can achieve the "ultimate flatness", so that you can hardly notice the existence of creases in daily use, and the screen remains flat even after a long period of use.
Secondly, the design of the double force arm lever gear, in the screen for multi-angle hovering when the role of a solid, but also allows the phone has the ability to multi-angle hovering.
The Huawei Pocket 2 comes with a Type-C port at the bottom, and a SIM card slot, microphone and speaker cutout on the left and right sides.
The 66W fast-charging adapter that comes with the Huawei Pocket 2 carries on the classic A+C dual-port design.
Third, performance and games: Kirin 9000S smoothness is beyond doubt, the original God high quality nearly full frame running
The Huawei Pocket 2 is powered by the new Kirin chip, which, combined with the unique Huawei Ark Engine and Harmony OS4 operating system, puts the Huawei Pocket 2 on par with rival flagships in terms of smoothness and performance.
Then, we also tested the Huawei Pocket 2 in detail for theoretical performance and gaming.
--Performance Test
First up is the CPU theory test, with a single-core score of 1,328 points in GeekBench 6.2.2, outperforming the Kirin 9000 by about 3%, and a multi-core score of 4,309 points, outperforming the Kirin 9000 by about 12%.
In the CPU test, we used GFXBench's 1080P six items for testing, and in aggregate, its performance has surpassed the Snapdragon 888 by about 15% or so.
In the GPU single test, we tested it using GFXBench's 1080P six projects, and collectively, its performance is ahead of the Snapdragon 888 by about 10%.
In the flash memory test, the sequential read speed of the Huawei Pocket 2 was measured at 1.96GB/s using Androbench, with a write speed of 1.89GB/s, and random reads and writes of 389MB/s and 521MB/s as well.
--Game Test
In the gaming test session, we chose two handheld games with low and high loads, namely Honor of Kings and Original God, for testing in an office environment with an indoor temperature of 25 degrees Celsius.
During the test, we adjusted the brightness of the phone screen to 50% and turned off the auto-brightness to ensure the accuracy of the test, used the highest image quality + the highest frame rate for the test in the game, and recorded the performance of the frame rate, temperature, and power consumption in the game.
1. King's Honor
Low load of the glory of kings hand game, in HD quality + very high frame rate test, single game against the average frame rate stabilized at 119.7FPS, the average fluctuation is only 0.3, the game overall frame rate stabilization in a straight line, it seems that the Huawei Pocket 2 longitudinal folding machine, in the face of this kind of low to medium load game, can still do the effect of the ease of use.
The average power consumption is only about 3.9W, with a frame energy consumption of 32.8mW and an energy efficiency ratio of 30.45FPS/W.
Temperature control, the front of the body 38.5 degrees Celsius, the back 36.6 degrees Celsius, in the vertical folding phone, play 120 frames of the king and do not drop frames, can have such a temperature performance is also quite not easy, but also indirectly proves that Huawei's control of the energy efficiency ratio and the system is very well tuned.
2. Original God
Next is the high load of the original God's hand game test, in the highest resolution + 60 fps mode, Sumeru City running test for 10 minutes, the average frame rate stabilized at 59.3FPS, frame rate fluctuations of only 1, although there are some minor fluctuations, but in the overall game during the period will not cause a significant sense of lag in the screen and the feeling of tearing.
With an average power consumption of only about 4.3W, a frame energy consumption of 71.9mW, and an energy efficiency ratio of 13.91FPS/W, this high load gaming performance of the Huawei Pocket 2 is quite impressive and even one of the best among vertical folders.
Temperature, the front of the body up to 41.1 degrees Celsius, the back of the highest whole 40 degrees Celsius, holding the phone horizontally to play games, there is only some slight heat, and will not cause any impact on the player.
Image: Full Focal Length Image in a Small Body Hyper Spectrum Camera Brings Banknote Checking and Other Novelty Games
Huawei Pocket 2 is the world's only vertically folded phone with a full-focus triple camera, and a hyper-spectral camera to form a quad camera module.
The main camera is a 50-megapixel hyper-perception lens with a 23mm (actually 27mm) equivalent focal length, has an F1.6 aperture, and supports OIS optical stabilization.
The ultra wide-angle camera is a 12-megapixel, 13mm equivalent focal length with F2.2 aperture.
The rare 8-megapixel telephoto camera in the small fold, with an 80mm (actually 81mm) equivalent focal length, achieves an equivalent 3x optical zoom compared to the main camera, has an F2.4 aperture, and also supports OIS optical stabilization.
In addition, the Huawei Pocket 2 also features a 2-megapixel hyper-spectral camera with an F2.0 aperture, which is mainly used for auxiliary shots for functions such as fluorescence photography.
--Primary Camera
The 50-megapixel main camera produces the kind of photo-realistic photos you'd expect from a bright daytime scene, and with the XMAGE system's tuning, the colors are just the right amount of saturated, neither over-enhancing nor avoiding color distortion.
This tuning makes the photos outstanding in detail while maintaining a sense of realism.
-- Telephoto
This 3x telephoto lens on the Pocket 2 takes samples that are overall clear and clean, and is able to effectively highlight the subject in the frame. Even when zoomed in to more than 5x, thanks to the optimized processing of the XD Fusion Pro texture engine, the details of the photo remain sharp and the image quality is excellent.
In addition, under complex lighting conditions such as backlighting or direct light, the telephoto lens of the Huawei Pocket 2 captures images with little color difference compared to the main camera, allowing changes in light and shadow as well as details of the subject's texture to be recorded accurately and clearly, and ensuring high-quality image output in any lighting environment.
--Ultra Wide Angle
With a 13-megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens, the image virtually eliminates distortion on both sides, and when zooming in to take a closer look at the edges of the photo, you'll see that the image isn't distorted, and the imaging is still perfect. Though the pixels aren't high, they're still perfectly adequate for showing off grand, tall buildings, and taking photos with an ultra-wide angle of view.
--Night Scene
In a night environment, the Pocket 2 is able to precisely control the light at long exposures, no matter how far away the bright light source is, effectively avoiding light diffraction and haloing.
Moreover, the white balance adjustment of this telephoto lens is very precise, ensuring the color fidelity of high-brightness objects in the picture such as light signs, preventing color temperature distortion caused by overexposure, and producing clear, natural photos with realistic light and shadow effects at night.
--Fluorescence Photography
With the Hyperspectral Camera, the Huawei Pocket 2 is also equipped with Fluorescence Photography.
As with the previous generation Huawei P50 Pocket, this hyper-spectral camera can be invoked under the Fluorescence Photography option to capture novelty images that can't be captured by regular lenses.
When taking pictures, you can shoot the invisible light on the surface of the object, and the lines of the photographed image are still recognizable, which can be called night vision, and you can even use it to test counterfeit bills, so you don't even need to bring a bill checker when you go out.
One thing to note, however, is that to experience fluorescent photography, you need to shoot still life in total darkness or extremely dark scenes as much as possible, in order to maximize the ability of this hyper-spectral camera.
--Sun Protection Detection and UV Intensity Detection
When girls go out, they pay attention to sun protection and there are still a lot of UV rays whether it's winter or summer, which can be solved in a big way by utilizing the Huawei Pocket 2's Hyperspectral Camera.
When applying sunscreen, uneven sunscreen may lead to uneven protection of the skin, thus increasing the risk of sunburn, this time, we can use it to check whether the sunscreen is evenly applied, so you can go out with confidence and boldness.
Before you go out, it's a good idea to monitor the UV intensity of the environment outside below, using the Huawei Pocket 2's rear camera module to most accurately measure the environment being measured, which will give you an accurate UV intensity measurement within 3 seconds.
So whether you need to apply sunscreen on the day, whether the sunscreen is evenly applied, this problem Huawei Pocket 2 gives all the solution.
--AI Skin Texture Detection
There is also an interesting feature, AI Skin Quality Detection, which can help us detect the state of our skin and assess a variety of skin attributes, including sun spots, pores, blackheads, fine lines, etc., and we can adjust our habits and skincare regimen based on this real-time feedback to improve the health of our skin.
V. Satellite communication experience: small folding for the first time with two-way satellite communication
Huawei Pocket 2 is the first small folding to carry satellite communication, supporting two-way satellite communication of Beidou, which not only realizes the reception of text messages, but also realizes satellite calls when there is no network on the ground, bringing us enough security.
Huawei Pocket 2 utilizes the Smooth Connect APP to send and receive short messages and location information to the outside world by turning on location information in a network-less environment.
In order to ensure the accuracy of message sending, we need to calibrate the device. In the messaging screen, we can choose from a variety of built-in message content. When sending a message, the phone will guide us to set up the best position for star searching. The search process takes about 6 to 7 seconds. Once the star search is successful, we need to wait for about 15 seconds and then we can successfully send the message.
On the message sending screen, we can see the content of the message we just sent as well as detailed location information.
When receiving a message, we need to perform similar actions as we do when sending a message. First, we need to perform a star search and follow the phone's instructions to place the device in the right position. Then, we need to hold this position for about 10 seconds in order to successfully receive the message from the sender.
In many emergency situations, we need to be able to send a quick and accurate distress message so that the rescuers can know the location and condition of the rescued person in more detail. This is why the Quick Help feature is so important.
In the lower right corner of the sending interface, Huawei has set up a Quick Help button, which can quickly send emergencies and physical conditions to the outside world by simply tapping this button.
Through this function, rescuers can prepare sufficient medical facilities in advance to ensure that the rescue operation is foolproof.
Six, charging and battery life: 44 minutes to quickly return to the blood Continuity of nearly 7.5 hours is satisfactory
Huawei Pocket 2 has a built-in 4520mAh battery that supports 66W Huawei Super Fast Charge as well as 40W Huawei Super Wireless Fast Charge, which is the highest wireless charging power supported by a vertically folded phone to date, bar none, and is also compatible with 7.5W power wireless reverse charging.
Moving on to our test of the Huawei Pocket 2's charging and battery life.
--Charging Test
After the test, the power starts from 1% to extinguish the screen charging, 10 minutes to 31%, 20 minutes to 59%, half an hour to 83%, and finally completely full in 44 minutes.
--Battery life test
For the battery life test, we use a professional battery life test tool - Battery Dog produced by Fast Tech to conduct the test.
In the test program, the default will be carried out to 20% of the power test, at the same time, including CPU high-pressure, CPU multi-threading, AI recognition, image browsing, video playback and web browsing of all the test items will be checked, through the simulation of the user's use of the scenario, to restore the real load to the greatest extent possible, and infinitely close to the real power consumption situation.
During the test, in order to keep the environmental variables of all models tested uniform as well as to ensure the accuracy of the test scores, Battery Dog automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen to 50% and turns off the auto-brightness, and the volume is adjusted to 30%.
After the battery dog's uninterrupted battery life test, Huawei Pocket 2 power consumption from 100% to 20% in 6 hours and 08 minutes, after discounting, full battery life can reach nearly 7.5 hours.
Seven, summary: the most comprehensive experience of the thin and light small folding
Huawei Pocket 2, thanks to the full-focus quad camera, 40W wireless charging, two-way satellite communication, and perfect crease-free screen and many other advantages, is the most comprehensive and powerful small folding as of today.
Its power is reflected in its appearance.
Thanks to the enhancement of the waterdrop-shaped hinge technology, together with the industry's first Xuanwu waterdrop hinge structure, the Huawei Pocket 2 unfolds the phone as if it were a straight-screen phone that is flat, achieving a perfect seamless folding form.
In our experience we couldn't feel the creases at all, and it also lays the foundation for the ability to hover at multiple angles, and combined with the dual force arm lever gears, it's virtually crease-free even after 3 years of use, making it the flattest little fold of all time.
In addition, the power of Huawei Pocket2 lies in the all-around improvement of its product power, with every feature reaching the top level of the industry.
The full-focus triple camera + Hyper Spectrum Camera gives the small fold the ability to shoot images at long distances, giving users the freedom to shoot at a variety of focal lengths. It also brings us a new fluorescent photography experience, utilizing this unique feature to capture the fluorescent spectrum that is not directly visible to the human eye, creating distinctive image work that allows users to explore and capture hidden beauty at night or under special lighting conditions.
It can be said that in terms of imaging capabilities, Huawei Pocket 2 has surpassed all small-folds to date.
Secondly, the two-way satellite communication function first introduced by the Small Folding phone breaks the traditional straight-screen flagship's exclusivity for satellite messaging, and combined with the superb Spirit Communication, it ensures that users can maintain smooth communication regardless of whether they are in remote areas or signal blindness, allowing communication everywhere and all the time.
Finally, there is the 40W wireless fast charging that the small folding debuts, when users can enjoy the unique experience of a folding screen phone, while also obtaining a wireless charging efficiency comparable to that of traditional smartphones.
Comprehensively speaking, Huawei Pocket 2 is the most comprehensive comprehensive experience so far, the strongest vertical folding phone, outstanding value and feel, the ability to go up to the sky and into the ground communication ability, full focal length image and rich and diverse photographic play, Huawei Pocket 2 breaks the concept of the traditional cell phone, which is not only a cell phone, but also an ultra-practical trend of lightweight luxury goods.
