The Mate XT, a new smartphone that is said to be the world’s first to boast a tri-fold design, featuring a special OLED display that can expand to 10.2 inches in a way that’s been likened to an accordion, is headed to select markets, Chinese electronics maker Huawei has announced. Pricing for the new phone, which is being promoted by local celebrities that include Hong Kong actor Andy Lau of Infernal Affairs fame, ranges from 19,999 (~$2,800) for the 16 GB/256 GB model to 23,999 (~$3,370) yuan for the 16 GB/1 TB model.
From a report:
- “The Chinese tech giant showed off its new Mate XT, which users can fold three ways like an accordion screen door, during a launch ceremony in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen.”
- “The device has already received more than 4 million pre-orders, for which no deposit is required, according to the company’s website.”
- “The new phone boasts an AI assistant with text summary, translation and editing functions, as well as AI-boosted image editing functions such as trimming unwanted parts of photos, [Huawei executive director Richard Yu] said.”
- “The much-anticipated launch comes just hours after Apple unveiled its latest model – the AI-boosted iPhone 16 – with both smartphones due to go on sale on Sept. 20.”
Specifications and pricing:
| Single Screen Size | 6.4-inch, 2232 x 1008 pixels, 156.7 x 73.5 x 12.8 mm |
| Dual Screen Size | 7.9-inch, 2232 x 2048 pixels, 156.7 x 143 x 7.45 mm / 4.75 mm |
| Triple Screen Size | 10.2-inch, 2232 x 3184 pixels, 156.7 x 219 x 3.6 mm / 3.6 mm / 4.75 mm |
| Display | OLED LTPO 90Hz panel, 1440Hz high-frequency PWM dimming, 240Hz touch sampling rate |
| Processor | Kirin 9-series chip |
| RAM | 16GB |
| Storage Options | 256GB / 512GB / 1TB |
| Battery | 5,600mAh |
| Charging | 66W wired charging, 50W wireless charging |
| Operating System | Harmony OS 4.2 |
| Front Camera | 8MP |
| Rear Cameras | 50MP (f/1.4~f/4.0 aperture, OIS) + 12MP (ultra-wide) + 12MP (periscope telephoto, OIS) |
| Additional Features | Side fingerprint sensor, Dual SIM, IR blaster, NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.2, USB-C (3.1 Gen1) |
| Weight | 298 grams |
| Price (16GB + 256GB) | 19,999 CNY |
| Price (16GB + 512GB) | 21,999 CNY |
| Price (16GB + 1TB) | 23,999 CNY |
| Colors | Ruihong, Dark Black |
A look at the new phone in the wild:
Reuters noted in its coverage:
While Apple for years enjoyed strong demand in China, where new iPhone launches once sparked a frenzy, its sales have dwindled and the company’s ranking in the world’s second-largest economy has now dropped from third to sixth place.
Huawei made a comeback to the high-end smartphone segment last year with the release of a device powered by a domestically-made chip, defying U.S. sanctions that have cut off its access to the global chipset supply chain. The launch of the Mate 60 Pro surprised analysts and U.S. officials.
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Nifty.
Well, tell the price part. Still nice tech.
Enjoy some complementary spyware courtesy of Chinese Peoples Liberation Army military intelligence with your absurd fancy foldy phone :p
"Huawei product"
Hard pass. ?
"Zarathustra, post: 89175, member: 203" wrote:Enjoy some complementary spyware courtesy of Chinese Peoples Liberation Army military intelligence with your absurd fancy foldy phone :p
To be fair, we're getting the same thing, except it's corporations feeding NSA, and other corporations. ☹️
"Shotglass01, post: 89183, member: 4341" wrote:To be fair, we're getting the same thing, except it's corporations feeding NSA, and other corporations. ☹️
That is true.
There are legal opinions on file that if data is commercially available and can be bought, then law enforcement can use it without a warrant.
Considering how many data brokers there are with files on all of us and willing to sell it to the highest bidder, there are some real due process concerns here.
On the flipside, with the China angle, they do so much industrial espionage it is crazy. I work in product development. I'd hate for my choice of hardware to wind up compromising my work's IP, and as has happened so many times before, result in a company folding, as their designs are stolen, and the Chinese government hands over tons of cash to a Chinese company to produce and dump the product on the international market, driving its inventor/designer out of business.
I would rather not lose my job this way. Rinse and repeat enough times in scale and the entire U.S. economy can suffer because of it.
They are hell bent on taking over the world economy by any means necessary. Most people are very naive about this. They even say it out loud. It's not as if this is some sort of secret. If it were up to me there would be a complete ban on imports of any electronics product designed and developed in China, and an effort to attempt to re-home as much electronics manufacturing as possible, so we are not dependent on them for that portion of the supply-chain either. It's just too risky. Then I'd even try to limit exports China of anything other than old technology to limit IP theft that way.
So my take is this. BOTH types of data theft are concerning and important. At least to me the Chinese threat is more immediate however. There are very real and serious consequences that might come out of the collapse of 4th amendment protections as we have come to know them though, but that is a little abstract at this point.
I suppose I could be accused of a murder I didn't commit because my phone places me somewhere geographically, and that would be terrible, but it feels less real somehow, In a few years it might not. Time will tell.
and Huawei we go!
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Join Discussion →Nifty.
Well, tell the price part. Still nice tech.
Enjoy some complementary spyware courtesy of Chinese Peoples Liberation Army military intelligence with your absurd fancy foldy phone :p
"Huawei product"
Hard pass. ?
To be fair, we're getting the same thing, except it's corporations feeding NSA, and other corporations. ☹️
That is true.
There are legal opinions on file that if data is commercially available and can be bought, then law enforcement can use it without a warrant.
Considering how many data brokers there are with files on all of us and willing to sell it to the highest bidder, there are some real due process concerns here.
On the flipside, with the China angle, they do so much industrial espionage it is crazy. I work in product development. I'd hate for my choice of hardware to wind up compromising my work's IP, and as has happened so many times before, result in a company folding, as their designs are stolen, and the Chinese government hands over tons of cash to a Chinese company to produce and dump the product on the international market, driving its inventor/designer out of business.
I would rather not lose my job this way. Rinse and repeat enough times in scale and the entire U.S. economy can suffer because of it.
They are hell bent on taking over the world economy by any means necessary. Most people are very naive about this. They even say it out loud. It's not as if this is some sort of secret. If it were up to me there would be a complete ban on imports of any electronics product designed and developed in China, and an effort to attempt to re-home as much electronics manufacturing as possible, so we are not dependent on them for that portion of the supply-chain either. It's just too risky. Then I'd even try to limit exports China of anything other than old technology to limit IP theft that way.
So my take is this. BOTH types of data theft are concerning and important. At least to me the Chinese threat is more immediate however. There are very real and serious consequences that might come out of the collapse of 4th amendment protections as we have come to know them though, but that is a little abstract at this point.
I suppose I could be accused of a murder I didn't commit because my phone places me somewhere geographically, and that would be terrible, but it feels less real somehow, In a few years it might not. Time will tell.
and Huawei we go!