Huawei Mate Xs Unboxing - Whoa.
Oct 19, 2025
Unboxing the new Huawei Mate Xs. Finally got my hands on a Huawei foldable smartphone. FOLLOW ME IN THESE PLACES FOR UPDATES Twitter - http://twitter.com/unboxtherapy Facebook - http://facebook.com/lewis.hilsenteger Instagram - http://instagram.com/unboxtherapy
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I gotta say, man, it's not every day I'm this excited
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Will has been promoting this package around the studio. I got something coming in. I got the best thing coming in
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Will do Unbox Therapy hand delivered. Hand delivered. And of course, it's the plain envelope with the tape on it
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And Kirk just brought some fresh hot coffee. So, of course. Oh, delicious
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This is the greatest moment in YouTube history. Is that how you said it
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More or less? Or no, was it internet history? The greatest day in internet history
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Will doesn't normally go to this extent. If you're not amped up now, I don't know if you ever will be
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Why am I cutting it there? Wow, we got Kirk's attention. You also you also don't know what it is. No, only will
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But he said we're all gonna really enjoy it. Honestly, that's what he said
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I'm not... Lou's making stuff up. Oh! In studio
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It's the Mate XS. In studio. Foldable. I could never get my hands on the original Mate X
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It was the foldable that, for whatever reason, it was the unattainable foldable here in the studio
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And would you look at that? It's here thanks to Willy Do. So shout out
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There's some kind of a bumper case frame that's on the very top right here
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Foldable form factor that I have not experimented with. It's not the clamshell folding in
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It's the outfold. Color interstellar blue. 512 gigs of storage, 8 gigs of RAM
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Ooh, all right. Greeted by the device currently unfolded. Ooh, that is so different
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so it folds is there a button do i just begin to fold straight away i just fold like this whoa
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the galaxy fold never never felt like a normal smartphone in its folded position oh will's
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getting up the fold felt like a thing that needed to be unfolded you're gonna have some concerns
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you're going to wonder about durability because all your display is on the outside. So this is a
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lot more day to day. You're living your life. You're answering the calls. You're tapping the
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messages. And then you've got an extra moment of relaxation. You're about to enjoy your content
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your unbox therapy, your loo later. You hit the button and then you go into the small tablet
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mode at that moment. The Galaxy Fold is over here. So over here, it really felt like the tablet
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portion was the important one. That was the one that Samsung cared about first. And then the phone
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element, the screen on the outside, the earpiece and whatnot was an extra bonus. It can do that
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in a pinch. You look at this particular implementation and you realize that in this
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folded form factor that's a lot more like a typical smartphone. It's actually very similar
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in stance to well this is the S20 Ultra It barely fatter and it a whole tablet in there We have a camera array on the back There one two three looks like four cameras This little switch controls the unlock So you hit this button and it sort of flings up
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to start the process for you into the unlock position and then back down into the closed position there
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Oh, we need power. All right, so that thing is charging up right now. Let's check out the other items inside the package
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Sim tool is in there, some paperwork. There's also gonna be your Type-C cable, I presume
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A fairly long USB Type-C cable. There's a headset in the package
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Type-C as well, earbuds. A power brick, supercharged power brick, max 40 watts
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Okay, there it is. And once again, this is in phone mode
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And for me, this is the most impressive part. When you pull your phone out of your pocket
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you wanna be able to use it immediately as a smartphone. You wanna dive in there, you wanna open it up
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you wanna have the full smartphone experience straight out of the pocket. Now, a couple of observations
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It's a bit heavier than a typical smartphone and because the screen wraps around the edge
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it's got a little slip, a little extra slip to it. On the back, when you're using the front, you have nothing
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It's just blacked out. It looks kind of like the back of a phone
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And then when you open it up, there's an animation and it just swings over to the entire thing
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Let's do that one more time. We close it and the opposite takes place
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Regular smartphone. Open. Big time. It does feel like an easier transition for me because there was something odd with the fold
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As cool as the fold was, there was something odd about needing to flip it open or feeling the need to flip it open for almost everything
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They want you to be able to reach the far edge of the screen, considering how big it is and so on
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But it did feel like a compromise. In the folded format, it's hard to say that this isn't superior to this
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I mean, it should be pretty obvious. Wow, typing is so easy on here
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It's crazy. I should show you guys unboxtherapy.com you can actually browse all the videos in a new
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format now kind of cool I never talked about this but as you can see will you got to fill me in here
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this doesn't currently have the google play services so I can't just install the youtube app
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on here I could get in a sideload business okay let's turn it up can now run android oh wow yeah
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Something called Project Sandcastle, and it's not going to be a supported thing to do
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You've got your video, you're scrolling comments, you've got great audio. Specifically an iPhone 7, and there's some video footage, in fact, of this guy from Forbes
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It really does feel like a substitute for a tablet when you have it unfolded in this form factor right here
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Now, speaking of that, Will, this thing is not going to be cheap, right
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You tell them, Will. What's the price of this? $2,700. $2,700. That makes this one of the most expensive production smartphones we've had on a set
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It's incredible. I should also mention the fingerprint scanner is over here on the side
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Look at that. Locked. If I try on my index, nothing. Thumb Bang Full spec list It a 300 gram device It eight inches in size when it unfolded diagonally measured
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The beauty when you're folded up is now you are a 6.6 inch smartphone
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which in 2020 is fully acceptable. OLED display. Unfolded, it's 2480 by 2200
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Folded, it's 2480 by 1148. Camera layout, 40 megapixel wide, f1.8 16 megapixel ultra wide f2.2 8 megapixel telephoto f2.4 the battery in here is 4500
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milliamp hour which is again fairly large how does that compare will to the galaxy fold uh 4380 oh
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okay so they're in the same territory all right now let's give these cameras a quick look why don't
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we by default we're at 1x straight out the box and you can touch these dots to slide all the way in
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all the way up to 30x which wow which i probably wouldn't use 3x looks pretty usable hey will can we get a thumbs up sir
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bam one x bam and wide a nice variety there of focal ranges which is a must on a flagship
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in this day and age it used to only be a dream but now it's an absolute must i like
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the ultra wide myself now what if we flip around to the selfie we gotta do this you see how that
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works. Look at that. You see that magic? Oh, that's a selfie, Jack. I'm detailed and I'm detail
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oriented. You're using the high caliber camera even for your selfies. So this is a selfie sleeper
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You don't have to have that mini little camera and a hole punch on the front that they just kind
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of put in there as an afterthought. Wouldn't you still have access to your other lenses there
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We flip it around. Yeah, we have access to the full suite. Oh my beard hair. Oh my word
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wow tremendous detail oh 5x on that detail we tombo that's beard for beard zoom in on your own grill
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as they say as the kids say they don't say that kirk does but he's not a kid he's 47 years old
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oh this is really interesting if you just back out of the app you got a mini version
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of your single display, and then you flip the phone. Interesting. Lots of different uses
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different thought processes here. What about a video? Why don't we? 60 FPS, 4K, why don't we
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And we can compare this, actually, to our previous video, in which I looked at the edit
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after you uploaded, and he was orange or red or pink or something
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Hopefully that doesn't happen here. We're, of course, going to find out. So by default, 1X
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Beauty mode is at zero very well. This is 1080p, 60fps. We have Will
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We have the dogs. Of course, Otis still wearing his fancy outfit
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Who knows? He might keep picking it from the closet each morning
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You never know. Doing it to this day. There's Will. Hopefully, he's the complexion
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To me, it looks good. Right now, it looks good. He's got to wait for the video
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Yeah, he doesn't... Right now it looks good very detailed Many Ks Many of the k we are shooting in there jack he moving and grooving he back in business he back on the job and of course we can do
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a kirk test in order to i don't know just we did we did everything else so it's a kirk test
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and he's enjoying the weather and he's normally standing against this pole
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most of the day. So if you need to find him, that's where he normally is
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And we're going to zoom out. Let's see, let's get out wide. Okay, the wide lens definitely gets a bit softer
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but usable. And then maybe we go back. We go back. I kind of like this thing
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Is that alright? So you take a screen and you're folding and you're moving and you're grooving
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Why you gotta reach for your laptop? Why you gotta reach for your iPad
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It's no Google Play services You're living in Tweak Town You gotta side load your stuff
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You gotta be a bit of a nerd I wish that wasn't the case but that's just the state
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That's the state of the union in 2020. For now, who knows
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It may change. In the folded mode, straight out the pocket, this is a more familiar place for me to be
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It's much less of a sandwich. It does not feel like a sandwich. Now, I have nothing against sandwiches
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Kirk does. He can't eat the bread. Lou, I'm going to break that thing
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I'm going to place it down. I'm going to scratch it. I'm going to shatter it
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You know what? You might. You might very well. I feel like this phone, this phone, both of these phones, all these phones, they're almost three grand
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This thing's almost three grand at this point. You got to treat it like it's three grand
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If you're actually going to splurge on it, you baby the thing. Like I said, you put it to bed on the pillow. It gets the nicer pillow than you. It gets the memory foam pillow
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It's not a form factor that's tried and true. It's absolutely fringe and it should be approached in that way
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It's the cutting edge for a reason. It's not for everyone. Not everybody should be on that edge
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But if you can be, you end up having these science fiction experiences, which that's one of the big reasons I signed up for this gig in the first place and got into it in the first place was to have these types of experiences
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So from that standpoint, it's exciting to have stuff like this show up that isn't like everything else
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um can we put this in the video on kirk's phone do it that's intense all right quick a little quick
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extra here i didn't install the case it kind of looked flimsy but i actually think it offers a
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tiny bit of protection here for the one thing that might make people nervous which is when you place
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it down on the table this tiny little frame like case gives you a bit of a ridge so it sits on that
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instead of the screen so that was included in the package i think it might be a good move
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you can't put a huge bulky case on here but this bumper at least gives you something
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