TECH NEWS – The Chinese company is rumored to be preparing a new model of its tri-fold smartphone… will it be madly expensive?

The Huawei Mate XT was the first tri-fold smartphone presented by the company on September 10, and not many people believed it at first. Of course, the end result wasn’t so great (you could see liquid leaking into the display, a single drop can ruin the display, and there was no mention of the fact that HarmonyOS, Huawei’s own technology, doesn’t seem sophisticated enough to be competitive after Android).

On Weibo (that would be China’s replacement for Twitter), an insider, Fixed Focus Digital, said that there will probably be no new design for the Huawei Mate XT successor. The second generation Mate XT will be powered by the Kirin 9020 chip. It currently powers the Mate 70 series. It is still a chip created with a 7-nanometer manufacturing process with a 12-core cluster for hyperthreading, so it can offer better multi-core performance compared to the Kirin 9010 released in early 2024.

Due to the ban on access to EUV equipment, Huawei can only use DUV equipment owned by China’s largest mobile phone manufacturer SMIC. And because of this, Huawei is likely to be stuck with 7nm lithography for a long time, so the successor to the Mate XT could be futuristic in appearance, but not much improved in performance due to U.S. trade sanctions. Considering that it took Huawei several years to get the fully folded device as thin as possible, there won’t be much change in this area either.

The display might have a longer life and the battery might be bigger. Otherwise, we’re talking about a device that folds into a 6.4″ (16.25 cm) cell phone and, when fully unfolded, a 10.2″ (25.91 cm) tablet. It’s an interesting formula, but not cheap.

Source: WCCFTech