Huawei has finally put an end to the prolonged wait for its first-ever foldable smartphone, the Huawei Mate X, by announcing the price and availability details. The company today launched its foldable smartphone at a 5G conference being held in Shenzen and well, it’s priced exorbitantly and sadly confined to Huawei’s home ground.
Huawei Mate X was first unveiled at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona back in February as a direct competitor to the Galaxy Fold but had since been delayed. If you’re not aware, it features a more attractive outward-opening design as compared to Galaxy Fold, whose screen folds in and offers a secondary screen on the outside. It’s using the same polyimide protective film as the Galaxy Fold, which means you will need to use it carefully so as not to scratch the display.
While we expected the company to unveil an upgraded Kirin 990-powered variant of the Mate X foldable phone, Huawei on stage revealed that it’s going to arrive in 2020. It has been dubbed the Mate Xs as you can see in the image below.
Huawei Mate X foldable phone comes in a single 8GB+512GB variant, which has been priced at 16,999 yuan (roughly around Rs. 1,70,000 or $2400) in China. The device currently will only be available in China and go on sale from November 15. Image Courtesy: Weibo
