Full specification if you consider the price iPhone 16 Pro Max or Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 was high, has a new flagship that might require some people to pay for a bank heist. the phone, which the company claims is the first triple phone to hit the market, will debut in China and start at 19,999 yuan (about $2,800). That’s enough to buy an 11-inch iPad Pro, an M3 MacBook Air, and a phone iPhone 16 – and still have money to spare.
It took Huawei five years to develop the Mate XT, according to Richard Yu, president of its consumer business. As part of this process, the company is said to have made advances in display and hinge technology. The device folds accordion-style, with one hinge tilting outward and the other inward, leaving one of the panels available for use as a 6.4-inch external display.
“Huawei Mate XT is the world’s first triple-folding smartphone and the largest and thinnest foldable phone globally,” Yu said during the launch event. . “We are the first in the world (in smartphones) to create a fold-out phone and a fold-in phone with no gaps.”
Despite the high price, the Mate XT has already captured the imagination of Chinese consumers. By early Tuesday, Huawei had received 3.7 million pre-orders.
It’s no wonder why Huawei officially announced the device a few hours later Monday’s iPhone event — he’s trying to steal Apple’s thunder. Given the pre-order numbers and relatively modest iPhone hardware updates this year (Apple delayed Apple Intelligence features as the main selling point), Huawei may have just removed it.
When fully unfolded, the Mate XT sports a 10.2-inch 3K display with a 92 percent screen-to-body ratio. Buyers can use one, two or all three panels at once (the two-panel display measures 7.9 inches). It comes in red or black, with a leather cover on the back and gold trim on the edges and folds. When out of mobile network coverage, owners will be able to connect to the rest of the world via satellite.
As you can imagine, there are also a number of generative AI features, including a voice input function that can polish and translate the transcript. There is an option to open a chatbot on one side of the screen to answer questions and summarize articles. There is also a photo editing tool with artificial intelligence. On that note, Huawei says that the triple camera system (featuring a periscope telephoto camera and an ultra-wide-angle camera) includes an approximate optical zoom of 5.5x.
However, Huawei is not the first company to show off a triple device. We had it back in 2020.
Sales plans for the Mate XT outside of China are not yet clear. The Mate XT is unlikely to officially arrive in the US imposed against the company over the past few years.
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