Huawei Mate X Price, Review And Launch Date

Huawei Mate X Price, Review And Launch Date

Recently, Huawei unveiled the Mate X foldable smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. After facing many rumors and delays, finally, the Huawei Mate X is for sale. However, the bad news for those eagerly waiting to adopt Huawei foldable smartphone, it might not be available outside china for now. For the Global launch, you need to wait a little longer. Unlike the Samsung Galaxy Fold, the Huawei foldable smartphone took a different approach in terms of design. It has a wrap-around display that is accessible even when the device is closed. like the Fold, the device has a wraparound outside display that’s accessible even when the phone is closed. Initially, the company announced that it had shipped 200 million phones so far. Let us learn more about its design, performance, and price in UAE.

Huawei Mate X Design & Display

When Samsung was striving hard with the foldable design Samsung Galaxy Fold, Huawei showed off the Mate X at MWC in Barcelona. It has taken a different approach for Mate X with a wrap-around display that is even accessible when the device is closed. When closed, the Huawei Mate X in Dubai offers a front display of 6.6-inches screen, 19:5:9 aspect ratio and 2480 x 1148 resolution. It is complemented by another rear 6.358-inches screen with 2480 x 892 resolution and 25:9 aspect ratio. It is really exciting to see the Mate X Dubai change from a phone to a tablet. So, enjoy watching videos on the bigger 8-inches display as it can play 4K videos. The picture quality is crisp, clear and bright as other Huawei smartphones. When open, you can either use the handset in a horizontal or vertical orientation.

Huawei’s foldable smartphone is 5.4mm thick when unfolded. Even the grip components bigger enough. Close up the phone to be 11mm thick. You find a pill-shaped button that acts both as a power button and a fingerprint scanner. On one end of the grip is USB-C port but lacks in the headphone jack. Huawei claims it to be the thinnest and fastest 5G foldable phone to date.

Huawei Mate X Processor & Performance

Along with the whole new design, the Chinese company is all set to create a trend even in terms of specifications. Though not the latest processor, but Huawei managed to include Kirin 980 processor with a Balong 5000 modem. The 5G modem is reportedly capable to render 4.6Gbps downlink speeds Meaning, you can download 1GB movies in just three seconds. The processor is paired with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of internal storage. Another thing to remember is as in the Huawei Mate 30, even the Mate X runs on open-source version Android, which means you don’t get access to all Google apps and services. The Huawei’s custom skin is impressive and brings in some excitingly new features.

Huawei Mate X Camera & Battery

Talking of the camera, it is a Leica triple-camera system. When the screen is bent down in the smartphone mode, the cameras appear on the rear end. Although, the camera system points forward when you find the device fully closed thus allowing you to capture impressive selfies. Technically speaking, there is no front snapper on the Huawei Mate X in Dubai. On the rear is a Quad camera setup of 40MP primary snapper, 8MP telephoto lens, 16MP ultra-wide sensor, and a ToF 3D sensor. It is accompanied by a dual-LED flash, HDR and panorama.

Being a dual-screen device, there includes a pair of batteries of 4,500mAh capacity. With the all-new 55-watt proprietary SuperCharge system, the device can charge up from zero to 85% in just 30 minutes. The last year Huawei Mate 20 has only 40W Supercharge technology.

Price and Availability

As expected, the Huawei Mate X price in Dubai will be around AED 9343. It is available in all online stores as well as the selected online retailers. While the initial version of Huawei Mate X packs in Huawei’s Kirin 980 chip as in Huawei Mate 20 5G, the subsequent Huawei Mate XS that might come up in 2020 gets more akin such as the updated Kirin 990 chip that the company announced recently.