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Folding smartphone Huawei Mate X - live photos, release dates sale and prices (10 photos)


New Huawei Smartphone - Mate X Modelequipped with a bending screen, but uses a fundamentally different technology than a similar Samsung gadget. At the same time, the price of Mate X significantly exceeds the cost of the Samsung Galaxy Fold.

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During the events of the MWC 2019Chinese corporation Huawei presented its first product with a folding screen, a diagonal of 8 inches with an OLED monitor (2480 × 2200 pixels). A screen with an aspect ratio of 8: 7.1 folds outward when folded. When folded, the consumer receives two screens having one common side: one screen with a diagonal of 6.6 inches and an aspect ratio of 18.5: 9 (2480 × 1148 pixels), and the second, additional, has a diagonal of 6.4 inches, an aspect ratio of 25 : 9 (2480 × 892 pixels).

The design of the smartphone is quite compact, andThere are no cutouts for cameras located on a special panel. The frames are very thin. Fingerprint ID - on the side surface of the power button of the smartphone. In the unfolded state, the thickness of the smartphone - 5.4 mm, and in the folded - 11 mm. Compactness is achieved due to the absence of a gap when the screen is bent outwards. In the company's patented Falcon Wing hinged mechanism, engineers installed more than 100 parts, and it was developed for more than 3 years.

The hardware of the smartphone runs on a processor.SoC Huawei Kirin 980, produced by 7-nm technology. The device has a 5G modem Balong 5000 from Huawei, which provides the ability to work with mobile networks of the 5th generation.


Battery capacity - 4500 mAh with charging55 Watts SuperCharge. The smartphone is designed for 2 SIM-cards and an additional memory card Huawei Nano Memory. The Leica Triple Camera is equipped with a 40 megapixel wide-angle sensor, a 16 megapixel ultra-wide-angle lens and an 8 megapixel sensor with a telephoto lens.


The smartphone runs on Android 9Pie with its own software shell EMUI 9.1.1. In the summer of 2019, Huawei Mate X will begin to go on sale at a price of 2299 euros for the basic model with 8GB of RAM and a main memory of 512 GB.