Tag: Mate X

July 6, 2020

When the first flexible screen smartphone made headlines more than a year ago, people were polarized in their opinions about the new futuristic technology. Many saw it as a gimmick and the high price wasn’t helping either. Nevertheless, manufacturers embraced […]

June 8, 2020

In our Huawei Mate Xs review, we found the Mate Xs a joy to use for reading, social media and browsing the internet. Such a device could cost well beyond what most people are ready to pay for a smartphone […]

April 29, 2020

The Huawei Mate X and Mate Xs were the only real competition to Samsung’s Galaxy Fold, in terms of design. Both companies chose a book-like folding design where the user ends up with a small tablet, but while the Galaxy […]

February 17, 2020

Huawei is going to host a virtual press conference on February 24 from Barcelona, Spain after GSMA decided to cancel MWC 2020 as many companies dropped out of the event due to the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) in may countries […]

November 8, 2019

Samsung’s first foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, is competing directly against Huawei’s first of the kind, the Mate X, on the Chinese market. The Korean phone-maker officially launched the Galaxy Fold — we called it “one of the coolest products” […]

September 16, 2019

The iPhone 11 phones are available for preorder, with several iPhone 11 versions and most iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max options being sold out at the moment. The handsets will ship to buyers on September 20th, but just a […]

August 20, 2019

One of the most anticipated handsets of the year was just delayed for the second time in a matter of just a few months with virtually no explanation. That’s Huawei first foldable phone, the Mate X, that was unveiled all […]

August 15, 2019

Huawei’s Mate X has suffered another delay. The company told TechRadar at a press event in China that there is “no possibility” of the folding phone making its September launch date, which itself was pushed back from the original planned […]

July 22, 2019

The foldable Huawei Mate X made its debut back in February and was expected to launch in June. But in light of Samsung’s Galaxy Fold issues, the company chose to delay the Mate X’s release until September in order to […]

July 22, 2019

It may not have had much luck with the temperamental, faulty Samsung Galaxy Fold, but that isn’t stopping Samsung’s ambitions in the bendy-phone race. A new report suggests it has not one, but three foldable phones in the works. It’s […]

July 19, 2019

Samsung is looking for ways to quickly expand the foldable phones ecosphere once it launches its own Galaxy Fold later this summer. One of these is to supply flexible OLED panels aimed for bendable handsets to those Chinese manufacturers that […]

July 9, 2019

Huawei has repeatedly said that the Mate X will be launched in September, due to additional testing of the device, and the slower than expected roll-out of 5G services worldwide. An official company presentation slide also backs up the launch […]

June 27, 2019

The Korea Herald is citing The Investor in writing about Samsung’s plan to release multiple foldable devices, including an out-folding smartphone. After criticizing the form factor, it seems like Samsung is not only embracing it, but the report suggests that […]

June 21, 2019

Usually when we see a patent we know immediately if it’s for a futuristic new phone, or a different design to an existing phone that never saw the light of day – but with a newly-released patent for a device […]

May 24, 2019

This is an interesting story, as Samsung was granted a new patent for an alternative foldable smartphone design. While Huawei was certain that the out-folding Mate X is the solution, and the in-folding Galaxy Fold is a bad design choice, […]

May 2, 2019

While there is still hope that the initial issues with the Galaxy Fold test units are fairly easy to address and the unique phone may ship this month, the final release may stretch out to June, which would erase Samsung’s […]

April 23, 2019

A colleague asked me today what I thought the delay of Samsung’s $2,000 Galaxy Fold meant for the brand. To bring you up to speed, the phone maker announced on Monday that it will postpone sales of its first foldable […]

March 6, 2019

Samsung is not only defending its in-folding approach of the Galaxy Fold smartphone, but also criticizes the out-folding concept of its main competitor, Huawei, and its Mate X. This comes just days after Huawei CEO Richard Yu admitted that the […]

February 25, 2019

We’re at the beginning of the beginning of the foldable smartphone era, as you might be able to tell from the explosion of hype surrounding these sci-fi devices. Attending Mobile World Congress this week, I look at the excitement coming […]