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Have S$3,600 to spend on a folding phone? That’s how much the new Huawei Mate XT will cost you!

We knew , and it certainly made its presence felt. Huawei’s triple fold smartphone, the has arrived under the company’s . Like its branding, it is commanding an “ultimate” price. or about if it were to go on sale here. More than S$1,000 a screen!  And that is just for the basic model with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Want the top-of-the-line model with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage? Expect to pay or about . For that money, you do get a 10.2-inch display running on HarmonyOS 4.2 when the device is fully opened.You can also unfold it once to have a 7.9-inch display.  Unlike the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 or the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold that have a single hinge between their two screens, to fold into each other, the new Huawei Mate XT seemingly does more of a “accordion collapse” with one display becoming the external single display with a screen size of 6.4-inches.  While we don’t know the processor used, we do know that it comes with an display with a battery, a rear camera setting with a main camera, and two ultrawide and periscope cameras, and a front facing camera. It weighs and goes from (when fully folded) to 3.6mm when unfolded. Oh, we also don’t know what AI functions will come with it either.  According to , they’ve received almost five million pre-orders for the Huawei Mate XT so far. Unfortunately for Singaporeans hoping to get one, from all reports, this is a China only smartphone.   Source: