Can Huawei’s new US$2,600 foldable phone Mate X take on Samsung’s Galaxy Fold?
The Mate X, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, is bigger and folds outwards to become a tablet, unlike Samsung’s device that opens like a book
Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has followed rival Samsung and unveiled a foldable phone called the Mate X.
It’s bigger than Samsung’s Galaxy Fold and, at a first glance, looks like it's more advanced. Beautiful and impressively sleek, given the technical complications, it’s expensive at US$2,600.
The Mate X also turns into a tablet, but the question is: does anyone actually need that, given the prevalence of cheaper, big-screen phones right now?
We took a close look at the Mate X when it was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24.
First off, the Huawei Mate X really does fold and it looks pretty amazing.
At US$2,600, it is pricier than Samsung’s US$2,270 Galaxy Fold.
Huawei didn't give us hands-on time with the device at Mobile World Congress, hiding the Mate X behind perspex and security. You can see the scrum here.
