Have S$3,600 to spend on a folding phone? That’s how much the new Huawei Mate XT will cost you!
Would you spend S$3,600 on a triple fold smartphone?
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Note: This article was first published on 11 September 2024.
A 10.2-inch display is nothing to sneer at! Photo: Huawei.
We knew it was coming, and it certainly made its presence felt. Huawei’s triple fold smartphone, the Huawei Mate XT has arrived under the company’s Ultimate Design branding.
Like its branding, it is commanding an “ultimate” price. ¥19,999 or about S$3,660 if it were to go on sale here. More than S$1,000 a screen!
And that is just for the basic model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Want the top-of-the-line model with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage? Expect to pay ¥23,999 or about S$4,440. For that money, you do get a glorious 10.2-inch display running on HarmonyOS 4.2 when the device is fully opened. You can also unfold it once to have a 7.9-inch display. For comparison, the Galaxy Z Fold6 'only' offers a 7.6-inch display when unfolded. That means the Huawei Mate XT can rival full-sized tablets, while the existing foldable phones can only get close to an iPad Mini size.
The hinges can apparently also fold back upon themselves. Photo: Huawei.
Unlike the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 or the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which have a single hinge between their two screens to fold into each other, the new Huawei Mate XT seemingly does more of an “accordion collapse,” with one display becoming the external single display with a screen size of 6.4 inches.
While we don’t know the processor used, we do know that it comes with an OLED display with a 5,600mAh battery, a rear camera setting with a 50MP main camera, and two 12MP ultrawide and periscope cameras, and a front facing 8MP camera. It weighs 298gm and goes from 12.8mm (when fully folded) to 3.6mm when unfolded. Oh, we also don’t know what AI functions will come with it either.
According to Huawei’s pre-order site, they’ve received almost five million pre-orders for the Huawei Mate XT so far. Unfortunately for Singaporeans hoping to get one, from all reports, this is a China-only smartphone launch.
Source: Huawei
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