Android powerhouse, Huawei answered Samsung’s ‘Unpacked’ event at a Mobile World Congress pre-brief. Huawei Mate X is slated to launch “mid-2019” at an eye-watering €2,299.
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While Samsung showed the ‘first’ foldable phone that will make it to market, Huawei chief Richard Yu acknowledged the ‘Galaxy Fold’ before taking jabs at the device.
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“No gap and no notch in unfolded mode – unlike our rival. Our device is 7mm thinner than our rival. Our Mate X comes with 5G – something our rival will not have. And an 8″ full-screen mode beats our rival again – Mate X is the fastest, thinnest 5G foldable smartphone.”
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Feature Heavy
With 3 years of R&D on the clock, Huawei have something usable. It feels solid, it feels like something I could and would use. For starters, the 11mm thickness while folded is close enough to a standard handset – 5.5mm per side isn’t much to grip so the Mate X has an as-yet-unnamed ‘bar’. An 11mm thick handle that houses cameras, chipset, charging port and makes it much easier to work with while unfolded.
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A 4,500mAh capacity is split across two batteries within the device. While this isn’t a huge upgrade over the current Mate 20 Pro, the Mate X will feature 55W SuperCharge. This will charge the handset from 0-85% in just 30 minutes. Huawei now feel that charging throughput is adequate to power laptops and handsets from the same standard Supercharger.
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Confirmed Specifications
- AMOLED 6.4″ screen while folded, 8″ in tablet mode – 2,200 x 2,480 (unfolded)
- Balong 5000 + Kirin 980 – ‘world’s first 5G chipset’ – Octa-core (2×2.6 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2×1.92 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55)
- 8GB RAM, 512GB on-board storage
- 55W SuperCharge
- 4,500mAh battery
- NR+4G downlink – up to 7.5Gbps
- 40 MP, f/1.8, 27mm (wide), 1/1.7″, PDAF + 16 MP, f/2.2, 17mm (ultrawide) + 8 MP, f/2.4, 52mm + TOF camera