WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.880 Now I don't usually start a video with a shout out to our sponsor, but if it wasn't for Dbrand, 00:00:04.880 --> 00:00:09.680 I would not even have my hands on the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design. 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:17.280 This phone is so exclusive that these are going for about 9,000 US dollars on eBay right now. 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:21.120 The hilarious part is they don't even make accessories for it. 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:27.200 No cases, no skins, no nothing, because it's China exclusive and I'm pretty sure they don't 00:00:27.200 --> 00:00:30.960 let Dbrand's guys into China anymore after all that s*** they've pulled over the years. 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:38.000 So we've got that in common. Anyway, without further ado, massive shout out Dbrand for getting this phone over to us, 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:43.120 however the hell it is you did that. Unlike a lot of our recent phone videos, there's no Labs testing or anything. 00:00:43.120 --> 00:00:48.160 It arrived, we jumped through a bunch of freaking ridiculous hoops to set up a Huawei Cloud account 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:52.240 and I jumped on set. I am so excited to see this thing. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.600 You will pay for this. That's my garage door. 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:01.600 Why is my garage door open? That's a really weird and f***ed up thing to have in the packaging. 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.360 Is this from Dbrand? Wow, it's freaking huge. 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:12.560 I have looked at basically no media coverage of this thing because I wanted to experience it in person. 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:18.400 It's got about the same crease as I would have expected on like a first generation folding device, 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.320 but what jumps out to me is the astonishing thinness. 00:01:22.320 --> 00:01:25.360 I'm daily driving an iPhone 16 Plus right now. 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:29.680 This is the thickness of the iPhone in comparison. It's on a whole other level. 00:01:30.720 --> 00:01:40.000 I am loving the design too. Huawei has gone from being just like a copycat brand to this looking absolutely incredible. 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:44.240 Dude, it's basically as thin as it could possibly be and still have a SIM tray. 00:01:44.240 --> 00:01:50.000 I've seen concept devices for like a tri-fold, for example, in the Samsung booth at CES. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.000 The difference is that even their concept devices weren't this thin. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.440 That is not an IR emitter. Shut up. 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:01.680 It has an IR emitter? This is a device that I look at and I go, 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:05.280 yeah, they couldn't have fit a headphone jack in here. Not this one. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:10.880 On the right, volume rocker. What appears to be a fingerprint sensing lock button. 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:14.400 USB-C port. Look at this. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:22.000 Can you even see the edges of it? How is there room in this thickness at the edge of this port for the entire display stack? 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.720 Is this leather? It can't be. It can't be real leather. It's got to be a faux leather, but it feels really good. 00:02:26.720 --> 00:02:31.360 Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's folded. Oh, dang, that is so cool. 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:35.360 Oh, buddy. And there, yeah, that's cool. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:39.280 It's like a folded metal. Oh, oh, oh, what else is in the box? 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.880 Oh, important reminder. Thank you, Andy. Right, I forgot Andy's my cameraman today. 00:02:42.880 --> 00:02:46.480 Oh, this buddy ain't waterproof. I'll tell you that much. 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:50.080 Don't go where it's cold. Don't touch it with anything sharp. Don't touch it at all. 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.880 Don't fold it if it's under five degrees. Oh, minus five. 00:02:54.880 --> 00:02:57.440 I can see why they didn't bring it to the Canadian market. 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:03.440 This is the kind of thing that feels like they built a concept car. 00:03:03.440 --> 00:03:06.800 And then they were just like, you know what? F*** it. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:13.760 We'll make a handful of them, you know? Like it reminds me of that Sony OLED from 2008. 00:03:13.760 --> 00:03:17.360 They were just like, yeah, this thing makes absolutely no sense at this price and size. 00:03:17.920 --> 00:03:21.600 We're going to do it anyway. Oh, it comes with Huawei earphones. 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:25.040 Now I know that these are a thing. That's good. Shut up. 00:03:25.040 --> 00:03:28.400 88 watt charging on this thing? There's no way. 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:32.560 Yeah, okay. This is an 88 watt. Wait, why does it come with a car charger? 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:37.600 Does it come with a regular? Oh, dude. This thing is the whole package. 00:03:38.320 --> 00:03:42.000 Regular charger, 66 watts, two cables. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.600 Oh, it comes with a case. That's great. This is carbon fiber. 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:50.640 Oh my God, I think this is real carbon fiber. The reason I think it's real is A, it looks real. 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:55.680 And B, they know there isn't going to be a single accessory on the market for this. 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.880 So whatever comes on the box, that's the only possible case that anybody can get for it, 00:04:00.880 --> 00:04:04.720 which means if you have the kind of money to afford a phone like this, it better be a good one. 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:08.320 How much does this cost in China? It's not even that much. 00:04:08.320 --> 00:04:12.640 Like to be clear, $2,800 is a freaking ton for a phone. 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:20.000 But you'd spend almost that much on a top tier iPhone, especially if you pay for Apple care, which this includes similar service to. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.000 It includes four replacements of the screen protector in the first two years 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.520 and a full out broken screen. So it's not beyond the realm of what people are spending on phones. 00:04:29.520 --> 00:04:35.520 It's just that that's for 16 gigs of RAM and only 256 gigs of storage. 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:39.280 I don't even know how they put an hands chip in here, let alone 250. 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:47.680 You can get it with up to a terabyte of storage, but that's going to cost you $3,400, $10.2 inch display. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:52.000 Absolute freaking game changer for on the go entertainment. 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:57.040 3k resolution, 92% screen to body ratio. 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:05.040 I believe it. Look how tiny these bezels are. It's like a Samsung Galaxy Fold plus a third phone. 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:08.720 This thing's crazy, like pretty good anti-glare treatment. 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:13.360 It's not perfect, but like guys, that's a studio light. You know, oh, that's cool. 00:05:13.360 --> 00:05:17.440 It prompts you for the password down in the bottom right, because it knows how you're going to be holding it. 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:21.040 Oh, you can tell it if you're right or left handed or if you're holding it. 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:25.760 Shut up, shut up. Andy said if you're holding it with your left hand, no way. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:32.800 Oh, they did the work, man. I've been using a fold since the first generation Samsung Galaxy Fold. 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:38.560 Okay. And with those early ones, you could really tell like it was basically stock Android, 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:43.040 but like with some tablet tweaks and, you know, they didn't really have it all figured out. 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:47.040 Dude, it moves where the pin prompt is depending where you swipe. 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:52.960 That is freaking awesome. It's little touches like that, that make all the difference in the world with a device like this. 00:05:52.960 --> 00:05:55.520 It comes preloaded with a lot of garbage. 00:05:57.280 --> 00:06:00.480 That I know is pretty typical for Chinese devices. 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:03.760 We've talked about three screens, two. 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:09.440 Okay. How does it feel in the same? That is smooth. 00:06:09.440 --> 00:06:14.640 The way it transitions, you guys. Also, this is totally a high refresh rate display. 00:06:14.640 --> 00:06:20.000 What are the compromises people? 90 Hertz, which is good enough. 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.600 Obviously, a 120, 144 is better or whatever your extreme gamer. 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:28.160 But if you're an extreme gamer, you're not buying this phone. Now that I finally got it folded down the whole way. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:33.600 Dude, it's not even thicker than a buy fold from Samsung. 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:38.000 And it's a tri-fold. Wow. 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:41.680 Yeah, it's thicker than a traditional candy bar phone. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:47.440 But it's not totally unreasonable either. Like again, as someone who used a fold for a long time, 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:52.560 it feels pretty good in the hand. And not only that, but this is such a usable form factor, man. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:56.080 Do you remember how small the front screen was on the first Galaxy Fold? 00:06:56.080 --> 00:07:00.080 Like it's tiny. I made that work. This would be basically no compromises. 00:07:00.080 --> 00:07:02.560 No, no, I would go like this. Boom, fold. 00:07:03.440 --> 00:07:06.800 Boom, I got some movies to watch. I want this thing so bad. 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:10.560 Like so bad. Does it even work on Canadian bands? 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:17.520 Come on, Huawei. It's not like we jailed your executive and kicked all your infrastructure 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:21.280 out of our country or anything. I'm going to try it. I'm putting my sim in it, boys. 00:07:21.280 --> 00:07:24.080 You can uninstall their garbage. I can uninstall Huawei Wallet. 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:29.040 Maybe a blah, blah, blah. Yeah, sure. See you later. Okay, cool. So I don't have to keep any of that stuff. 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.320 In single window view, you could swipe up and down to either side to scroll. 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:38.640 Oh, that's a nice usability tweak. 00:07:38.640 --> 00:07:43.280 Dude, this is crazy. It's so thin. It's so light. 00:07:43.280 --> 00:07:48.320 Let's talk about specs. Got a Kyron 9010 7-manometer chip in here. 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:55.680 10.2, 7.9, or 6.4-inch display. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:00.240 No particular peak brightness rating, though. Hey, you've got the Play Store and everything. 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.360 Wait, what the hell's in Aurora Store? No Google Play Services. 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:08.800 You can't even force it? Dang it! So wait, what am I supposed to watch on here, then? 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:14.000 We did find one source that says 1,500 nits. We found another source that said 1,000 nits. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.720 Either way, it's pretty flipping bright. This is not like your first generation folding displays, 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:23.920 where they're super dim and basically unusable outside. Looks a little yellow. 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:29.360 It's got a bit of a red cast compared to the iPhone, but in terms of the brightness and SDR content, 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.840 I do not see any disadvantage here. I will say this, though. 00:08:33.840 --> 00:08:38.560 The color accuracy is probably good enough for just about anybody who's not doing 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:42.160 color-critical work on their phone. And can your iPhone do this? 00:08:42.160 --> 00:08:45.440 Holy crap. No, your iPhone can't do that. 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:50.720 It looks like even when they're powering the whole display, the overall brightness is close. 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.160 It might be a little bit less bright. 00:08:54.160 --> 00:08:58.240 Oh man, the auto-rotate, it's off. Like, it's 90 degrees off. 00:08:59.520 --> 00:09:02.560 Oh, it doesn't know what mode I'm in. 00:09:02.560 --> 00:09:07.200 Oh, that's a downer and a half. 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:11.280 You can see it's working fine in bi-fold mode, but then I switch over to tri-fold. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:16.160 Herpader, herpader, herpader. 00:09:16.160 --> 00:09:19.920 The lock button's like right there. You're going to accidentally mash that constantly, 00:09:19.920 --> 00:09:23.280 but this is like caveman technology by comparison. 00:09:23.280 --> 00:09:27.280 This is awesome. You got to put all your apps in like a little like 00:09:27.280 --> 00:09:31.280 shuffly thing like a peasant. Dude, don't you even have a bigger screen, Apple? 00:09:31.280 --> 00:09:35.680 Oh, oh, I want to try the camera though. It has a variable aperture camera? 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.080 How the crap did they pull that off? Oh, oh, no way. 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:43.760 You can go all the way from f1.4 to f4. 00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:48.160 Basically, that affects how wide the hole is through which the camera's shooting, 00:09:48.160 --> 00:09:51.440 which affects the depth of field and affects how much light gets in. 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:58.240 So if I want to open it up all the way, I can get real bokeh, like not fake AI bokeh, 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:02.240 like real bokeh on my shot. That is super cool. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:06.080 I can close it all the way and I can make sure that basically everything 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:10.240 in my shot is in focus. Okay, let's go back to, let's go back to auto mode though. 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:14.640 Not the best I've seen. Not terrible. Pretty sharp actually. 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:20.480 50 megapixels. Yeah, you can count every one of them. You can actually read the brand of our tripod on the Huawei. 00:10:21.040 --> 00:10:24.000 Can barely make it out on the iPhone. Pretty wild, hey? 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:29.040 Man, look at that. Look at it like stretch out. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:33.440 That is so cool. Dude, I want one of these so bad. 00:10:36.640 --> 00:10:38.960 Wow, that's a big sound, boys. 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.880 One speaker here, one speaker here. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:50.960 They're pretty muddy. But given the space constraints, I'm still very impressed. 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:54.960 I'm also impressed by how little the folds are bothering me. 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.840 Once I've actually got content on the screen, you can see as I move it around and catch the light, 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:04.960 you'll catch a glimpse of them once in a while, especially when it's directly reflected towards your eyes. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:09.360 But overall, pretty good at most of the angles that you would actually care about. 00:11:09.360 --> 00:11:14.880 Even though it does have an older processor in it, it's got a 5600 milliamp hour battery in here. 00:11:14.880 --> 00:11:18.080 That'll help a lot. You'll probably get a day out of it. All right, let's put on the case. 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:24.160 This little flappy guard thing kind of gets in the way when you go from bifold to trifold. 00:11:24.160 --> 00:11:28.160 But apparently it's there because people were concerned about the unprotected screen here. 00:11:28.160 --> 00:11:31.600 And like this way, it's right there when you're holding it. So I guess that's something. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.720 Oh yeah, I was going to try out the stand. Oh yeah, that could work. There we go. 00:11:34.720 --> 00:11:37.840 Okay. Oh yeah, oh yeah. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:40.480 Okay, she's stable. She's stable, she's stabilized. 00:11:43.680 --> 00:11:48.320 Oh yeah, there we go. No problem, bud. I mean, look, you laugh, laugh all you want. 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.680 But this was an engineering challenge that someone at Huawei had to solve. 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:54.480 And they did a pretty, pretty okay job. 00:11:56.560 --> 00:11:58.960 Oh, not bad, not bad. 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:05.040 Nope. A little inconsistent. 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:08.560 Oh, it'll be better without the case, I think. 00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:13.360 So much better. Nope, it failed. I think it comes down to when I enrolled it, 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:16.960 it was kind of wonky because I had the case on. I would definitely recommend 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:23.200 enrolling with the case not on. I want one so bad, but there are multiple deal breakers here. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:27.360 Even if it did support North American bands, which did may vary well. 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:30.640 There's no Google services on here, which doesn't mean, oh yeah, 00:12:30.640 --> 00:12:35.040 well just go get the Play Store and add Google service. No, they won't run on it. 00:12:35.040 --> 00:12:39.360 Not unless you like, I don't know, root it somehow, but then you're going to lose a lot of the optimizations 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:42.800 that Huawei has made to Harmony OS. You literally cannot put the Play Store on here 00:12:42.800 --> 00:12:46.160 and you can't run Google apps like Google Maps, for example. 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:49.440 Wait, Google Maps works? Ah, I see. 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.880 The rotation bug? Pretty brutal. And even though we have it set to English right now, 00:12:54.880 --> 00:12:58.080 there are many aspects of the device that remain Chinese only. 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:02.000 There's no IP rating, so you drop this thing in the drink. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:06.400 It is dead and setting up an account in Canada was extremely difficult 00:13:06.400 --> 00:13:09.920 because Huawei devices are banned in the country over security concerns. 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:15.120 Finally, the SOC and camera. Well, actually I thought the camera seemed pretty solid, 00:13:15.120 --> 00:13:20.720 but the SOC is very last gen, estimated to be about on par with a Snapdragon 888, 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.680 which came out in 2020. I really want one though. 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:29.120 And I want you to subscribe to ShortCircuit. Thanks again to Dbrand for making it possible 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:36.160 for us to get our hands on this thing. I was not expecting it to blow my mind this effectively.