Bloomberg — Huawei Technologies Co. presented on Thursday an update of its innovative triple folding phoneperfecting a novel format and underlining their hardware engineering capabilities.
The new mate XT has two folding mechanisms, which allows you to function as a conventional smartphone or as two variants of iPad type tablets. It is Huawei’s second bet for a folding device, after last year’s mate, presented a few hours after the presentation of the autumn iphone of Apple Inc (AAPL).
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Huawei is Apple’s strongest rival in the China Premium mobile phone market, and His Mate series has recovered a lot of lost land in recent years. This is due to its revolutionary manufacture of chips manufactured in China, and the Mate XT is manufactured with its last processor, the Kirin 9020.
Huawei, residing in Shenzhen, set the price of XT at ¥ 17,999 (US $ 2,500), below US $ 2,800 of 2024, and explained the improvements in an event broadcast live from its hometown. This device can be deployed until a 10.2 -inch screen can be reached, as explained Richard Yu, director of the consumption division, from the stage.
“The only one who can overcome Huawei on triple phones is Huawei,” said Yuhe added that the company has dominated the mass production of said hardware and now offers a selection of four colors, two more than the first generation.
Huawei promoted new experiences similar to those of a PC on the devicetaking better advantage of their larger dimensions, with some work applications developed for PC running on the phone. Users can also change between applications more easily when performing multiple tasks or seeing them in parallel when displaying the phone.
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The mate xt, now with Harmonyosthe internal operating system of Huawei, represents another step in the transition from the Chinese company to Android, the Google operating system. For years, Android has had difficulty competing with Apple’s most refined operating system, Ipadosfor large screen devices. However, Harmonyos could be more likely to offer an attractive user experience in China thanks to Huawei’s strong links with local software suppliers. Tencent Holdings Ltd., Shenzhen’s neighboring company, has worked to optimize Wechat for the Huawei platformand the Chinese government has encouraged others to adopt the local operating system.
Huawei has accelerated its expansion with the launch of a series of high -end phones with Harmonyos. Earl this year, he presented the Pure x folding, With an unusual format halfway between a folding phone and a book type, which has sold about half a million units in its first quarter, according to Counterpoint Research.
The folding device market was recovered with a 45% growth in the June quarteraccording to Counterpoint data. China concentrates most of the shipments worldwide, although the United States doubled its market share and almost tripled shipments, according to the study. It is likely that Apple Redefina and revitalize this market next year with the launch of its first folding iPhone, about seven years after Samsung Electronics Co. and Huawei popularized folding devices.
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