Earlier this week, Samsung unveiled its first foldable phone – the Galaxy Fold. It’s an interesting device albeit with a pretty steep price. Huawei will announce its own foldable device in a few days at MWC 2019 and a picture of a poster taken at the event has revealed it will launch as the Mate X.
Yes, Huawei’s foldable phone will be commercially known as the Mate X and not the Mate F, or Mate Flexi, or Mate Fold. Huawei actually applied for a trademark for the name back in February last year. Even at a point, the Mate X was thought to be the name of the device that eventually launched as the Mate RS Porsche Design.
With respect to design, the Mate X has only one display, unlike the Galaxy Fold. It also has pretty thin bezels and doesn’t have a notch. It doesn’t appear to be as wide though. The flexible screen actually folds backward into phone mode.
The right side of the phone’s frame is also thicker which is not surprising seeing as that is where the cameras and controls are located. There is a side-mounted fingerprint scanner with a button above it and on the back is a triple camera setup.
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The Huawei Mate X will support 5G thanks to Huawei’s Balong 5000 modem and will be powered by the Kirin 980 processor. There is no info on how much it will cost but we won’t be surprised if it is cheaper than the Samsung Galaxy Fold.
