Huawei tested the Google-free waters ahead of announcing the Mate XS with its Mate 30 Pro. Despite launching in 2019, it only hit select shelves in the west in 2020.

The Huawei Mate Xs should get a wider launch than the Mate X which has never been sold outside of China, but it’s set to cost a staggering 2,500 Euros, which is around $2,700 at the time of writing.

The Huawei Mate Xs’s design is virtually unchanged from last year’s model. You still get a wraparound display, which, when closed in phone orientation, makes for a Galaxy Fold shaming 6.6 ...

The Mate XS’s display has a two-layer polymer structure on top of the display, with the film joined by a transparent adhesive. There’s also a screen protector on top, which HUAWEI advises ...

A note on this HUAWEI Mate Xs review: I used the Mate Xs for 12 days in Berlin, Germany. It was running Android 10 with the February 2020 security patch (since updated to EMUI 10.1 in some markets ...

Huawei’s Mate 30 Pro and P30 Pro are two of my favorite camera phones, and I had no complaints at all with the Mate Xs, which took very good photos. When you use the camera with the phone folded ...

The Huawei Mate Xs is priced at £2,299 / AED 9,999 (around $2,746 / AU$4,205). and there is only one configuration available for it which is with 8GB RAM and 512GB storage.

Despite the cancellation of Mobile World Congress (MWC), Huawei has still announced a slate of new devices. The presentation wasn’t live and instead was pre-recorded, similar to a Nintendo Direct.

A 6.6″ main display (AKA when the Huawei Mate Xs isn’t folded out). A 8″ expanded display (AKA when it is). Camera-wise, it has: a 40MP main lens, a 8MP telephoto, and a 16MP ultra-wide camera.

The Huawei Mate Xs picks up where the original left off. That means a design that is almost identical — although that’s most definitely not a bad thing, by any stretch.