Despite the repeated anti-Huawei campaign by the U.S government, the company has continued to prove that its growth is hinged on innovation. The was made explicit with the launch of the Mate X foldable phone yesterday. The Huawei Mate X comes with a spectacular design which embodies what we think a foldable device should look like. Unlike the Galaxy Fold, the Mate X folds up to 180 degrees apart without any visible gap.

On the design aspect, the Mate X is said to utilise a design which Huawei calls Falcon Wing with up to 1000 components inside that ensures a seamless performance. It has a thickness of 5.4 mm in the unfolded state which is thinner than the Apple iPad Pro 2018. When it is folded, it still is thin with a thickness of just 11 mm. The device weighs 295 grams.

In order to keep the design thin, the phone doesn’t have the 3.5mm audio jack but it has a USB Type-C port. The phone also packs a side-mounted fingerprint scanner that doubles as the power button. At the side also, is a triple camera setup with the Leica badge.

A quick reminder of the specs. The Mate X has a large 8-inch screen with a resolution of 2480 x 2200 pixels and an 8:7.1 aspect ratio when unfolded with pretty thin bezels and no notch or “cliff” like the Samsung Galaxy Fold. When folded, It becomes a dual display phone – one side is a 6.6-inch (2480 x 1148) 19.5:9 display while the other is a 6.38-inch (2480 x 892) 25:9 display. The device is powered by the Hisilicon Kirin 980 chipset with Balong 5000 modem to power the 5G. The chipset is paired with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It dual nano SIM slots but only one of them supports 5G. 

Related: Huawei launches MateBook X Pro, MateBook 14, and MateBook 13 with FullView display at MWC

The main camera is a 40MP wide-angle lens, the second one is a 16MP ultra-wide angle lens, and the third lens is an 8MP telephoto lens. The device packs a 4500mA battery capacity and one interesting thing is the 55W SuperCharge fast charging technology it packs. On the software angle, the Huawei Mate X runs EMUI 9.1.1 based on Android 9 Pie.

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