The new Huawei Mate X goes official, the thinnest foldable smartphone yet

Foldable devices are indeed here and real. There are already a handful of manufacturers that ventures into the future mobile form-factor with each has their own unique designs.

As we see through each and every version there is for a foldable smartphone, we can’t help but be amazed on what Huawei has done on their design with the new Huawei Mate X – the company’s first foldable smartphone that could potentially and even excel at this point with what Samsung had shown a few days back.

The new Mate X comes with 5G connectivity and it is sign of forward standard adoption. This is made possible with Huawei’s new Balong 5000 modem which the company claims to be the fastest 5G modem yet on a smartphone.

It has the thinnest profile yet for a foldable phone at least when it’s unfolded at 5.8mm. This reveals the entire stretch of its large 8-inch bezel less display with a 2480 x 2200 pixels. When folded though it results into an 11mm thick familiar form of a phone with the main display measuring at 6.6-inch with a 2480 x 1148 pixels resolution and having a familiar 16.5:9 Aspect ratio.

The other half of the display faces the back and becomes a secondary display where other options and shortcuts fits right in. Its folding method uses a Huawei patented hinge mechanism with up to 100 components inside as a result of a 3 year research and development.

The camera module on the Mate X is only one and that’s where the thickest side of the phone is. This module though houses the Mate X’s camera sensors. During the event, the demo unit has 3 lenses on it but ours sources suggests that Huawei would put 4 cameras on the finally production units.

These camera sensors are co-engineered with Leica, and Huawei claims that users should be able to take “Best in class Selfies” on the Mate X as it uses the same module both for landscape photography and Selfies.

Huawei uses two batteries on the Mate X that delivers 4500 mAh of juice and comes with the world fastest charging with the new 55W SuperCharge. Huawei claims that the new fast 55W charging can charge Mate X’s battery from 0 to 85% in just 30 minutes.

There’s no mention of a Wireless charging though so charging is done on its USB-C port. Fingerprint readers is embedded into the power button on the side.

The new Huawei Mate X will be available sometime in the middle of 2019 with a price of $2,299 and with only one color variant that is Interstellar Blue.