Huawei Gets Huge Demand for Triple Fold Smartphone Mate XT Ultimate Design, Goes out of Stock on Start of Sale


Chinese electronics company Huawei launched its first tri-fold smartphone Mate XT Ultimate Design earlier this month. The sale of this smartphone has started in China from Friday. However, many customers of this smartphone were disappointed because the company is selling it only to those customers who had pre-ordered it.

One from Reuters Report According to Huawei, many customers who visited mobile stores in Beijing and Shenzhen were disappointed to find that they could not buy the Mate XT Ultimate Design at the start of the sale. The smartphone was only available to customers whose pre-orders were confirmed by Huawei.

The base variant of this smartphone with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB storage is priced at CNY 19,999 (approximately Rs. 2,35,900). Its 512 GB and 1 TB storage variants are priced at CNY 21,999 (approximately Rs. 2,59,500) and CNY 23,999 (approximately Rs. 2,83,100) respectively. The Mate XT Ultimate Design is available in Red and Black colours. This dual SIM smartphone runs on HarmonyOS 4.2 out-of-the-box. Its screen can be 10.2 inches (3,184 x 2,232 pixels) when unfolded. The flexible LTPO OLED screen of this smartphone measures 7.9 inches (2,048 x 2,232 pixels) when folded once, and 6.4 inches (1,008 x 2,232 pixels) when folded for the second time.

The company has not given information about the processor of Mate XT Ultimate Design. It has a 50-megapixel camera on the outside with optical image stabilization (OIS) and aperture between f/1.2 and f/4.0. This smartphone has a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera with f/2.2 aperture and a 12-megapixel periscope telephoto camera with 5.5x optical zoom and f/3.4 aperture. There is an 8-megapixel camera on its display for selfie and video call. With this smartphone, Huawei can give tough competition to South Korea’s Samsung in the rapidly growing market of foldable smartphones. American devices maker Apple plans to bring a clamshell style foldable device. Huawei introduced the foldable smartphone Pocket 2 in February.