If you're a fan of foldable phones, you're in luck,
If you're a fan of foldable phones, you're in luck, because there are plenty of them on the way: Samsungand LG are just two of the manufacturers who are planning handsets with a foldable screen. Here, we're focusing on yet another company getting involved – Huawei.
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All we know for sure is that Huawei has a foldable phone on the way – company execs have confirmed that much – but as for specs and design we're relying on leaks and rumours for the time being. Here's everything we've heard about the upcoming foldable phone so far.
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We know that Huawei is planning a foldable phone, because CEO Richard Yu has said so. "We are already working on it," Yu said in September 2018, adding that it would be out within 12 months. So August 2019 then? Or potentially even earlier.
We know that Huawei is planning a foldable phone, because CEO Richard Yu has said so. "We are already working on it," Yu said in September 2018, adding that it would be out within 12 months. So August 2019 then? Or potentially even earlier.
With no exact launch date yet specified, we can only make educated guesses, but the foldable Huawei phone could appear at Mobile World Congress at the end of February 2019. Or it could show up alongside the successors to the Huawei P20 phones – which are likely to appear at some point in March. Considering the advanced technology a foldable phone is going to need, we think something around July or August time is more likely.
And the price? Well, it won't be cheap, that's for sure: foldable screens need a lot of research, development, and manufacturing cash, like any emerging technology. The Huawei Mate 10 Pro originally cost £699/$799, so think about something above and beyond that.
This 2019 phone is going to have a foldable, hinged screen – something you might have sussed from the title of this article. How exactly that's going to work isn't quite clear, but this concept video from TechConfigurations gives you some idea, a concept video based on patents filed by Huawei.
The handset will probably look a little like two smartphones stuck together, so you get the usual front display (with a notch) and a back camera. The device's party trick, though, will be the way it can fold outwards to reveal a hinged screen in the middle – one that you might ,
As yet we don't know exactly how big these displays will be, but given Huawei's fondness for large screens, we could be looking at well over 6 inches for the individual displays, and even more when the displays are folded out and laid flat.
If you're a fan of foldable phones, you're in luck, because there are plenty of them on the way: Samsung and LG are just two of the manufacturers who are planning handsets with a foldable screen. Here, we're focusing on yet another company getting involved – Huawei..
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