Move over Samsung, Huawei’s foldable smartphone is an absolute stunner

referring to Instead of the standard MicroSD card, the Mate X support's Huawei's "Nano Memory" (NM) Cards, a proprietary card format that matches the dimensions of a nano SIM card. Huawei's exterior display means you see it when the phone is open or closed, so you only need the one display. The Mate X comes with a breathtaking $2600 (€2,299) price tag, although the two devices are not quite comparable. Huawei's website actually describes the Mate X as having a "soft screen," which doesn't sound very scratch resistant to me. On the wraparound Mate X display, you are always placing the scratchable, plastic display face-down on a table.

Huawei launches foldable smartphone with €2,299 price tag

Just days after Samsung unveiled its first smartphone with a foldable screen, Huawei has shown off the Mate X, a similar device that has a considerably larger display than its rival, but also comes at a significantly higher price. Huawei launched the Mate X at an event at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday. The Mate X runs on Huawei's Kirin 980 processor and Balong 5000 chipset, enabling users to download a 1 Gigabyte movie in just three seconds. The US and a number of other nations have banned the use of the company's 5G technology, and many other countries are also weighing up their options. Locally, Vodafone has teamed up with Ericsson for the rollout of its 5G network.

Huawei's Mate X foldable 5G smartphone has one big design difference

as mentioned in The Mate X will run $2,600 for three cameras and three screens. Yu was also keen to stress that the Mate X has a larger screen than the Galaxy Fold – 8-inches across. Compared with the Samsung device, Huawei said the Mate X is also thinner when folded than it's big rival: 11mm compared with 17mm. The Mate X foldable phone is set for release in the "middle" of 2019 and will cost €2299, the company said. Huawei also unveiled the Huawei Mate XP Pro laptop, offering users what Yu described as "borderless experience" with a 3:2 aspect ratio.

It's still not clear why consumers would need a foldable smartphone

Source: AP Photo/Eric RisbergWill foldable displays in smartphones take off or fall flat? It was hard to tell from Samsung's announcement on Wednesday of the Galaxy Fold, the first smartphone with a foldable display. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) MoreThat doesn't set the stage well for foldable displays in general, which some smartphone manufacturers are banking on to boost flattening sales. Lower prices are generally more likely the longer technologies — foldable displays, in this case — are manufactured and available. "I think it will take some time for these foldable screens to reinvent the smartphone category and deliver differentiated experiences," predicts Husson.

Watch Huawei's stream here to see its foldable smartphone