Huawei is still optimising the foldable Mate X smartphone and would not make it public without meeting quality requirements, the company’s director of consumer business mobile phones He Gang has said. According to the executive, Mate X is still undergoing optimisation to meet the company’s stringent and high quality requirements.
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“It’s actually taking a lot longer and is requiring more effort than initially anticipated. And if it doesn’t meet those requirement, we won’t put out the phone,’ Gang was saying in a Chinese portal.
Mate X runs Android 9 Pie on top of EMUI 9.1.1 and features two FullView Display panels in 6.6-inch and 6.38-inch sizes that jointly bring an 8-inch OLED FullView Display panel when unfolded — without any display notch. The device, when folded, offers a 6.6-inch display experience at the front with a pixel count of 1148×2480 pixels and 19.5:9 aspect ratio.
Under the hood, the Huawei Mate X has a HiSilicon Kirin 980 SoC, coupled with 8GB RAM. For photos and videos, the Huawei Mate X sports a two-in-one front and rear camera setup that is powered by Leica optics. The camera setup includes three sensors, including a 40-megapixel sensor (wide-angle lens), 16-megapixel (ultra-wide-angle lens), and an 8-megapixel sensor (telephoto). The Huawei Mate X has 512GB of onboard storage that is expandable via microSD card (up to 256GB).
Samsung announced last week that it would release the Galaxy fold in September in select markets.
Other companies are also keeping shtum about their plans. Xiaomi has teased such a phone – the Mi Mix Flex – but hasn’t flexed its muscles hard enough to actually show off that device. Doing so right now would probably be a mistake, unless it’s found some new-fangled technology that’ll get around the various issues discussed.
Even companies that make phones are side-stepping such technology for use in such devices. Lenovo is the greatest example of this yet, a laptop where the screen runs right over the hinge and into a lower control bar by the keyboard. That’s savvy design, because it won’t be in your pocket, the screen lid will keep the panel protected, and it’s not an actual real product you can buy just yet. Because, well, it’s not quite ready, just like folding phones aren’t either.
