Huawei has already announced its first foldable smartphone Huawei Mate X but the smartphone is yet to go on sale. Ahead of the phone is available commercially, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Division was spotted using the phone at an airport.
As per the reports, the Huawei Mate X smartphone received the network license earlier this month and supports traditional GSM, CDMA, CDMA2000, WCDMA, TD-LTE, LTE-FDD, as well as 5G with NSA and SA networking methods.
The device was recently listed on TENAA, revealing its full specifications. The listing revealed that the foldable smartphone will come with an 8-inch external OLED display with 2480 x 2200 pixels screen resolution.
When folded, it transforms into a dual-display phone – one side is a 6.6-inch with 2480 x 1148 pixels resolution and 19.5:9 ratio while the other is a 6.38-inch display with 2480 x 892 pixels resolution and 25:9 aspect ratio.
Under the hood, the smartphone is powered by the company’s own Kirin 980 octa-core flagship processor clocked at 2.6GHz and comes in three variants based on the memory configuration — 6/8/12 GB of RAM and 128/256/512 GB of internal storage. It comes with the 7nm Balong 5000 modem which brings 5G support to the device.
The phone also comes with support for NM card allowing users to further expand the phone’s storage capacity up to 256 GB. As for the connectivity options, the device supports NFC, dual-frequency GPS, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, and USB Type-C port.
It features a 40-megapixel main sensor with f/1.8 aperture, an 8-megapixel telephoto lens with f/2.4 aperture, a 16-megapixel ultrawide lens with f/2.2 aperture and a ToF 3D camera. The Mate X is also equipped with a side-mounted fingerprint reader.
The TENAA listing also reveals that the device is running Android 9 Pie operating system out-of-the-box and is likely to have EMUI 9.1 custom interface on top. The phone is fuelled by a 4,400mAh battery and could support SupercCharge fast charging technology which supports up to 55W.
