The Huawei Mate Xs 2 is finally moving out of China and it will come to Europe starting in June.

The Huawei Mate Xs 2 will be offered in three colors - Black with what Huawei calls a cross-hatch leather texture, White with a "natural" leather texture, and Violet.

But the display and the body are very different.

The Huawei Mate Xs 2's display stretches to a slightly smaller 7.8-inch diagonal and retains a 6.5-inch usable area when folded.

The display is a big leap forward from the Mate Xs.

Huawei calls it a True-Chrome foldable display.

The other immediately noticeable improvement over the previous Mate is in the hinge?

The body itself uses lighter materials, which help the phone achieve the superb weight of just 255g (for comparison, the Galaxy Z Fold3 is 271g). Huawei has used ultra-light glass fibers for the phone's backplane, aerospace-grade titanium alloys, and the aforementioned ultra-light steel.

Huawei calls the Mate Xs 2's desgin 3D Fiberglass. It uses patterns in the texture of the rear panel to create a leather-esque finish. The Black model, which we had the chance to play with, feels just like leather even if it is actually plastic.

The finish feels nice too, especially when watching a video or using the phone with two hands. The Mate Xs 2's profile when unfolded is just 5.4mm, which sounds thin, but we're here to tell ya it feels thinner! With the thicker sliver at one end of the phone, the Mate Xs 2 feels a bit like the Kindle Oasis.

Being foldable, the Huawei Mate Xs 2 is handy for taking selfies with its main cameras. The proper in-display selfie camera is good in a pinch and we'd still default to it for video calls. But we'd choose the triple main camera for taking photos of ourselves every time.

Weirdly, Huawei is insisting on giving you a blocky square viewfinder to preview your main-camera selfies with. The final shots are in the sensor's native 4:3 aspect, which is fine, but it makes framing very hard. Then there's the fact that you still can't use the ultrawide camera to take a selfie with, just like on the Mate Xs, which is just weird.

Huawei has gone with the Snapdragon 888 chipset on the Mate Xs 2 and it lacks a 5G modem, unlike the Mate Xs and its 5G-capable Kirin 990. Buyers outside of China will have to contend with having just 8GB of RAM, but storage is very ample at 512GB.

Software-wise the Mate Xs 2 launches with HarmonyOS and EMUI 12. It's a responsive OS that's well-adapted to using the foldable form factor with options like Smart Multi-Window, Split-screen, floating windows, swipe gestures, and the option to rotate the screen any which way you'd like.

But the Mate Xs 2 is limited to only the apps in Huawei's App Gallery. And while they have grown significantly, the lack of Google apps and the full Android app store support are bound to turn many power users away.

The Huawei Mate Xs 2 will arrive in Europe in June and will start at €1,999 for the 8/512GB model. And while it stands little chance of breaking sales records, the unique design might entice a few buyers. We'll hopefully get a better idea when the phone arrives in our office for a full review.

But fans said Huawei phone doesn't have crappy bloatwares. Wth is Huawei karaoke? :)