Huawei Mate XS 2 Real World Review + Camera Test vs iPhone 13 Pro

[@adithyagulab]

This phone looks like the foldable version of Mi Mix Alpha. Really good looking design.

[@richardo.5781]

Harmony OS is really user friendly, like the entire OS was designed to handle multi tasking

[@dragonforcegaming7555]

shouldn't it be more natural for the Foldables phones? like most people buy Foldables for better Multi tasking and it's Foldable form factor which isn't possible to do with a Tab.

[@My-Opinion-Doesnt-Matter]

It's worse than iOS, uncustomizable and unintuitive, and you can't even change the swipe down gesture to something useful, and it kills any app you want to work in background...

[@hoey77]

Awesome review Ben, I’m not a fan of this type of foldable but do appreciate your insights - Looking forward to the next tech review

[@dragonforcegaming7555]

yeah...this type of design is inconvenient for the Foldable phones. It's more like a Mi mix Alpha phone which had 360° wrap display

[@RSS1010]

Huawei always had good innovation 🙂

[@rashedali7618]

Amazing review like always. I've sideloaded GMS on my Mate Xs 2 using a method from a chinese Hacker and it took less than 10 min using only an app he made. The phone now is almost perfect for my use. I'm a Huawei fan here too! I imported the Chinese version although the global version is coming to my country in Germany but only to install GMS on HarmonyOs which is not possible on EMUI 12

[@GserMx8]

Can you share the method you used/?

[@tayo9074]

I always love your review... Thumbs up always...I really wanna see HUAWEI come out strong from all the sanctions... I'm a fan and I use mate40 pro.

[@kirinyagakihanya2631]

The phone is pretty good for a foldable. Thank you for the tip on purchase as well.

[@shahkhalid108]

Legend come back

[@wasifalam9567]

Love your dedication to your work regardless of the sometime low view response of the viewers. Keep it up ✌ Always ahead of all other youtubers out there when a new device comes to market.❤

[@mikhaell8683]

Thank you Ben, you really go above and beyond making your videos. Love your work 👍👍👍

[@EngrMoe]

Harmony OS is getting another level, hope google service allows them to use it officially soon. I love how Huawei managed to make this phone so thin. I have one question out of the topic: Is it okay to eat directly from plastic bag?

[@usmanabdulkadir3334]

Awesome real world review and camera comparing as always Ben's bro

[@HamadAlMutairi97]

The only problem I have is that it isn't Kirin 5G.

[@evil_xsimon3639]

Yeah kirin's image processing is better

[@ginnox2049]

Let's hope 5G kirin chips from Huawei will be back next year. But there's still Mate50 which is rumored to be announced in the next few months...if it does, let's hope we get to hear something new about Kirin. Huawei did patent a stacking chip design early this year or late last year, so hope that plays well. And if they have access to 5nm or 3nm chips, I'm pretty sure no brands can beat Huawei with whatever chips they got.

[@Cal_Paul]

Great video. Been a while since I've seen a genuine smartphone review like this and was refreshing.

[@stephen315chan]

oh my god ben you're killing me with the food segment I went there to have chinese rice noodle and curry fish balls too 😋. missing HK like crazy, still can't come back for a visit yet but it's just a matter of time. thanks for a great review as always not a huawei supporter myself but I do like the design.

[@ALNadiiir]

I love huawei A company that has made all competitors develop in the world of technology

[@jocelynb3882]

Great video. I bought a Mate XS 2 in Singapore and use it in Australia. GSpace is excellent for getting around the absence of Google apps - I have found every single one that I use there - I just can't use GPay.

[@loonation2185]

the form factor and design is actually good but so fragile at the same time.

[@toexipnokinitaki3927]

you deserve more subscibers really man.great job

[@subhaa_]

1st liked 🤩.

[@jeddmamaat9870]

still enjoying all your content. love your way of analytical and practical reviewing. speaks to my inner nerd better than any other reviewer 😂❤️🔥

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Thabk you!

[@moussavoubertrand5240]

Awesome bro keep the great work going

[@jd2086]

If it wasn’t for the price to me this is the best phone out right now

[@midhunkjairaj4124]

if Huawei integrated a stylus in the free space on the right side this would be a genius invention

[@tmzjsansu9136]

To be honest, this is the first time i am tempted to buy a foldable phone. The design of this phone is so well planned and we all know that Huawei is the best out there in terms of design and quality of phones. Too bad this US bans are costing them too much..

[@dragonforcegaming7555]

yeah....and also Xiaomi and Huawei's ones are possibly the only Foldables aside from Samsung's available outside China...but the US ban just ruined all the innovation from the Smartphone industry in US. Literally all Chinese brands are now wary to enter the US market just because of this Huawei ban and are just selling their Sub-brand phones in the US in less quantity....

[@mohammadzein504]

Love your real world reviews Ben and your practical, honest take on a foldable like this. Regardless of the risks of damage that come with the foldable screen. I think this is awesome! 👌 The whole interaction and usage of the phone is soo intuitive. 👍👍 Thank you for the great Content Sir✌✌

[@skyhawk3090]

If I go to Hong Kong I will remember this food and this store . Maybe a small tiffin would be a good idea! Bon appétit !

[@DronesTwinkies]

Love it Ben, Me too I am a fan of Huawei I have the Mate Xs, Thanks Ben.

[@dantereyalcantara2474]

i "ALWAYS LOVE" the way you review Ben..keep it up and be safe always..Kind regards from the Philippines..

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Thank you!

[@maxreuv]

Excellent review, thank you!

[@s.ferres4595]

I had the 1st XS, still the most beautiful fold

[@raymondwan2621]

Especially how it slims out toward one end. They took out that design this time. Bummer

[@OliverCo]

would you replace it with Xs 2?

[@chriscantrell6983]

Always been excited by foldables but usually too many compromises, this is the first one I have thought I really want that. A lot of really thoughtful design choices. I miss HK fish balls!

[@de-niz7631]

Honestly Ben, ur review has always been great 👍

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Thank you

[@kenman91]

Hey Ben as always great review, wanted to ask does the Mate XS2 have desktop mode, and you can connect it to a monitor/ doc station to use it as a workstation ?

[@starboy7336]

Nice review 👌🏻

[@5kyforger]

what's up with the focus at 6:42? It looks real bad cause it misses to focus your face completely

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Yeah the camera messed up focus there

[@Ahmed_A8]

Actually you are a great person, most of the different kind of mobile I seen in your channel, thumbs 👍

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Thank you

[@chesterw5058]

Amazing work. Thank you Ben. And I like the way you walk around the city. Maybe you can take a video of how your daily life is in HK. Or run a second channel of how you live your life there. 😹

[@n2t460]

Huawei sometimes ships a new phone with good video camera, and this time again not a good video camera, so much blurry shaking when moving, maybe software will fix overtime. Not usable for me personally, maybe when reduced to 1080p then will be better.

[@Demurr]

Came for the phone review, but daaamn those noodles look good!

[@theyoutuber273]

Great review Ben! I hope samsung adopts this gesture navigation.

[@rolins3279]

It's true that Samsung should try to copy Oppo and Huawei's multitasking gestures a bit.

[@jeizschey]

Thanks ben for your reviews! Very helpful and informative 🙏🏻😁✨

[@elizabethnwosu882]

Thanks so much for the review. I love how you review phones. I'm here in the US watching on my Mate 20x/4g. I'm totally fine with 4G. I can easily use work arounds for google apps or just use web versions. I was so excited then came the camera test. Large phone and great camera. That's what I want. Hoping the US stops messing around before my phone dies. I want another large screen Huawei phone, hopefully with an excellent camera.

[@Manuelferrante]

Can i ask you the guide you followed to install Native GMS on it ???? And it will survive if you OTA update SW device ?

[@oluosibo9334]

Always dope bro! Keep going

[@lemonadeweekend7503]

Love your professional review and effor on video editing! LOVE HONG KONG

[@jw7518]

Very nice phone. Btw you just made me feel hungry watching you eating 😋.

[@DENZ317]

Hands Down The Best Designed Phone Out !!! ...

[@WYVERN76]

Excellent efforts thank you my favorite reviewer.

[@cahyoaroyanto8990]

Subscribed forever

[@cristianspiridon]

Huawei did a mistake by keeping the prices so high! With better pricing I think they could have keep many users even without google!

[@adithyagulab]

Really good and detailed review 👍🏼

[@blues7667]

Love it. Huawei always make the good phones

[@albidry]

How the google maps working....does it support google service and google play working on it ???

[@Dender303]

Awesome review, you are 1 and only one who made REAL LIFE Review! i watch many, cos want to buy this phone! Now You have +1 subscriber and i tell all my friends who like watch reviews aboute You! Thank You!

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Thank you!

[@hafizyaakob5753]

Hi, I want to ask if your Huawei Mate Xs 2 phone uses Google, how to use the Huawei Mate Xs 2 with Google

[@minhthuc1232003]

Nice review Ben,I still prefer the book style of the Foldable phone but I love to see companies like Huawei, OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi bring innovation to consumers, specially make it global to slap in Samsung face to make them work harder...From all the leak of the Galaxy Fold 4,im very disappointed, that's why I got Vivo X Fold, it the best hardware of foldable phone right now and I love it, but still hope Vivo can keep up with the software

[@profesorz642]

Where did u buy vivo fold? Its still not available in europe as far as i know

[@minhthuc1232003]

@@profesorz642 yup it still China exclusive, I imported it and I buy it from wondamobile :)

[@raymondwan2621]

Thanks for the review Ben! And love how you integrated some local culture in it - keep them coming! I also have a question about running local banking and payment apps on this phone, u know with the security login and all that. Did u get a chance to try? Would love to hear from you.

[@deekshithheat]

Any update of Huawei mate xs 3.

[@armendzhagaryan6049]

Great review! A lot of good info.

[@Thomasmcse]

Thanks mate. Great video! I love the hardware and idea behind, but Google Services is a deal breaker. :(

[@chesu22]

hermoso celular! saludos desde Argentina!

[@shanehorne22]

Huawei is just amazing

[@Maxiiim02]

Goodlock on Samsung has a module called Multistar and it has a cool thing where if you swipe in from a top corner on a full screen app it makes it go to pop up view. It's pretty nice, much better than the regular way to do it.

[@joshuabergeman354]

I'm really thinking about getting a Hauwei phone, just as a personal protest and I want to know, which do you think are better, the P50 pro or the P40 pro?

[@orepoutanes]

I'd say P50 pro, imo.

[@ginnox2049]

P50 is better, looks great too and less bulky Not sure where you are, but if you country do sell it, I still suggest getting a Chinese version. You get the HOS (Harmony OS) out of the boss.

[@joshuabergeman354]

@@ginnox2049 thanks, but I decided on the P40 pro. Not only does it have a more secure face unlock as well as finger print scanner but it was about $200 cheaper than the P50🤷‍♂️

[@ginnox2049]

@@joshuabergeman354 still a good choice, it's Huawei...haha

[@yl1101]

Love the content 👍

[@chris3116]

Ben, enjoying the channel for some time. Also a fan of Huawei hardware. Gspace now tipped me over the edge to buy this. Worth a short update ?

[@christlikes]

Very calm review 😊

[@bReAkEr1007]

nice review, Ben.

[@basantathakuri5132]

Wow❤️

[@JohnP.6775]

For my Z fold 3 I set up so when I swipe the bottom right handle with one hand gestures with goodlock it multitasks with one swipe.

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Yeah but it still requires good locks which needs installing. Samsung should build something faster natively

[@JohnP.6775]

@@bensgadgetreviews I agree it's not like we're on the 3rd going on 4th generation already.... oh wait 😂

[@Meteor-ThunderBears]

@@bensgadgetreviews Why didn't you use the side panel actually? You just drag and drop to whatever side you want to do split screen

[@thegamernani9385]

Your always good ben always support you

[@DamnObama]

Dope phone! Love your videos.

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Thank you

[@badkissvlog]

Good phone Ben but don’t have Google support

[@tOnySi]

are u still using this phone? need a review 2 years later.

[@mvevitsis]

You can change the one UI app switcher to focus on the current app by default instead (via good lock)

[@ghonzhaurigonzaga9810]

Ur studio bro is too dark but grt vid

[@epzaqzazazazazaz3580]

I want one so bad it's so beautiful just so EXPENSIVE

[@ibvocean]

Hi Ben, huawei phones used to excel in low light photos. That doesn't to be the case anymore. Is that a result of other brands catching up, or Huawei unable to incorporate special photo processing units like they did with Kirin processors before?

[@bensgadgetreviews]

It’s because US sanctions prevents huawei from buying newer components. So huawei can’t buy the newest sensors can’t buy the newest Qualcomm chip. It’s a game the US gov is playing.

[@Modern_CarWorld]

Because he did not use night mode. It is not auto night mode like iPhone and the software didn't update yet.

[@bensgadgetreviews]

@@Modern_CarWorld night mode makes no difference. I tried it

[@Modern_CarWorld]

@@bensgadgetreviews I used it in my P50 Pro and it produced different image. It is clearer than without night mode.

[@ginnox2049]

@RJK02 Haha....you clearly said it, it is only not in the best interest. That's enough to be a national security reason for US for everything they can't compete or is losing at. But it's great to see many in US still prefers Huawei phones. And with the sanction, it's just slowing down US even more in the 5G field and industry, there's no way they can catch back up if they choose to play a close up or little gossip groups with few other nations they preferred to work with.

[@kannanmash008]

Ben I want buy camera centric phone I love photography. So please tell me. best camera phone

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Vivo x80 pro or galaxy s22 ultra or pixel 6 pro. All three great. Top three

[@kannanmash008]

@@bensgadgetreviews OK. Thanks for replay. Is it sony new phone mark series 4 good for photography

[@AlejandroDeLaRosa05]

Hello Ben! I love your videos man. Does Trinity electronics have a website?or you can only reach them on Facebook?

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Hi sorry they only have a Facebook. Facebook messenger is best way to reach them.

[@tugrakulig]

I really like your reviews Ben and Huawei mate xs 2 is the sexiest phone ever exist in my opinion.

[@dragonforcegaming7555]

and also the most inconvenient foldable phone. It's more like a concept device than an actual Consumer ready phone like Mi mix Alpha was

[@tugrakulig]

@@dragonforcegaming7555 agree with you

[@danii5846]

Great job ben. you can buy 2pcs s22ultra for this money😉

[@samsonderera9589]

I just love this phone no matter what U.S and other guys says

[@dragonforcegaming7555]

US lamed Huawei.....they made extremely good phones but the sanctions now almost killed everything about Huawei. We could have managed with the Qualcomm ban but Google ban is too much as Google is the medium in all of the Android apps. In a place where Google services aren't needed Huawei phones are great options and also more "bang for buck" smartphones.

[@Geerod]

If only other brands made a similar design especially in usa that would be very awesome.

[@KingBoy-bu8kp]

Sir I want to best phone for camera in gaming which one is the best option

[@michelejp69]

Hi Ben, which has the better camera overall. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 or the Huawei mate XS 2?

[@bensgadgetreviews]

Fold 4 has a slightly better camera system. Better zoom mostly.

[@sumitpalsingh5262]

Hi i have mate 40 pro plus China with full gms services running by doing some workaround process.. Ben do you have any idea if I can install full gms services in this phone...?

[@mr.nobody4097]

This is the best phone of the world right now.

[@KaizerFaith]

Why not take a night mode photo with the huawei if you're waiting on the iphone to do it automatically?

[@nic7227]

Ppl should hv more faith in foldable phones now with Mrkeybrd's ongoing folding test

[@jjeter7828]

🤯I miss Huawei😭

[@1d3nn1ss]

this all screen just reminded me of mix Alpha

[@techcornerid]

Maybe you have to try Mate XS2 with Kirin SoC. Like my P50 Pro with Snapdragon, the camera result especially in low light situation look bad. Really different with Huawei's devices with Kirin like P30 Pro or P40 Pro.

[@quirelll]

The camera quality is at the fold 3 level. That's too bad, because it means I'll go for a fold 4 this year even though I like the mate's design more.

[@mariogrifus8020]

Hi Ben from Italy Milan this device will arrive in Europe? And about the launch price?cause is important comprare with next zfold4

[@bensgadgetreviews]

It's quite pricey 1999 euro. And yes it will be selling in Europe soon

[@jaysample5496]

how about the gaming experience?

[@ilkererol1986]

I don't really care about phone but I do care about Hong Kong scenes

[@julezdude]

You forgot to update the battery status at the end of the day 😆