On Monday, Huawei had held a global launch event to announce the Huawei Mate Xs as its latest foldable smartphone. Yesterday, the Mate Xs was found listed on JD.com for reservations. Today, the Chinese firm took to Weibo to reveal that the Mate Xs will be costing 16,999 Yuan (~$2,415). As it was revealed on Monday, the European markets will be receiving it with a price tag of 2,499 euros (~$2,715).
The above shown poster shows that the Mate Xs will be priced at 16,999 Yuan (~$2,415) in China. The reservations of the device began from today through platforms like Vmall and JD.com. The Mate Xs will be available for purchase in the home market from March 5 at 10:08 AM (local time). The predecessor Huawei Mate X was also introduced with the same price tag,
Huawei Mate Xs specifications and features
The Huawei Mate Xsv comes with some improvements over the predecessor model. It features an upgraded hinge structurer and an enhanced cooling system. More importantly, it is powered by the latest Kirin 990 5G chipset.
The Mate Xs possesses a dual layer structure over the 8-inch foldable OLED display that produces a resolution of 2200 x 2480 pixels. The frontal 6.6-inch screen offers an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and the screen portion on the rear offers a tall aspect ratio of 25:9.
The camera setup of the device includes a 40-megapixel main lens, an 8-meapixel telephoto shooter with OIS, 16-megapixel ultrawide lens and a ToF sensor. It does not feature a front-facing camera. The main cameras with the rear screen working as viewfinder can be used for shooting selfies.
The 4,500mAh battery of the device supports 55W fast charging. The Android 10 OS without Google services runs on the device along with EMIU 10. It does come with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). The device is packed with 8 GB of RAM and an internal storage of 512 GB.
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