MWC 2019 is currently underway in Barcelona and Huawei was first in line to show off its latest innovations. Following the lead of Samsung, which showed off its first-ever foldable smartphone this week, the Chinese giant today gave us a look at its take with the Huawei Mate X. It’s calling it the ‘World’s Fastest Foldable 5G Phone.’
The Huawei Mate X is another standout piece of innovation and so is the asking price for this foldable smartphone. Huawei has priced it at a whopping and mind-numbing (as one adjective didn’t feel quite right) 2,299 euros for the 8GB+512GB variant and Interstellar Blue color.
Huawei Mate X Design and Display
One look at the Huawei Mate X is enough to captivate you. This new foldable smartphone comes packed with a single folding screen unlike the two screens on Galaxy Fold. It is simply 5.4mm thin when unfolded, slimmer than the new iPad Pro, and merely 11mm thick when folded.
When folded up, the front display is a 6.6-inch screen with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio and 2480×1148 pixel resolution and the rear display is a 6.38-inch panel with 25:9 aspect ratio and 2480×892 pixels resolution. However, when you open the Mate X’s fold, you’ll get a huge 8-inch display with a nearly square aspect ratio of 8:7.1 and a resolution of 2480×2200 pixels.
Before we delve into the internal specifications, you should know that Huawei has done everything in its power to prevent the Mate X from getting bulky. Thus, all components required to power the device sit in the sidebar (that you can see raised on the back when Mate X is opened up) and this includes the processor, cameras, 5G antennas, and a lot more.
