In summary
- Huawei Mate XTs to be announced 4 September
- Device shown being used by company CEO
- Similar device to Huawei Mate XT expected
Huawei is set to announce its second tri-fold foldable smartphone, the Mate XTs, before Samsung has managed to reveal its first.
The company has revealed that it will hold a launch event for the Huawei Mate XTs in Beijing on 4 September.
As GSMArena notes, company CEO Richard Yu also released a teaser video in which he can be seen using the Huawei Mate XTs, in a fetching white finish with a gold frame.
The executive initially appears to be using a stylus accessory with the foldable, before folding it down into a regular form factor and slipping it into his jacket pocket.
Reports suggest that the new model will switch to a faster Kirin 9020 chip, and will also feature a new 50MP main camera with a variable aperture, alongside a new periscope telephoto camera.
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What we thought of the original Huawei Mate XT
We took the original Huawei Mate XT for a spin earlier this year, and found a familiar story of stunning hardware and fatally flawed software.
The fold-out three-part internal screen really is a game changer, offering you a full portable tablet experience – not the weird square one that all other large foldables to date have supplied.
We also appreciated the Huawei Mate XT’s excellent cameras, which are far from a given in a foldable phone.
As always with Huawei phones, however, those Western sanctions really bite. There’s no access to the Google Play Store or Google’s services, which means many of your favourite apps just aren’t readily available.
Still, we’ll be interested to see how Huawei advances the format with the follow-up. No one is making foldable hardware like this. Samsung has been tipped to launch its own example, the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold, for a while now.
