Reuters Huawei's 5G folding phone, the Mate X.
- On Sunday, Huawei unveiled its first foldable smartphone, the Huawei Mate X.
- It will cost a whopping €2,299 ($2,600) when it arrives sometime in the middle of 2019.
- We took a close look at the Mate X at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Chinese smartphone giant Huawei has followed rival Samsung and unveiled a foldable phone called the Mate X.
The Mate X is the bigger device of the two and, at a first glance, looks like it's more advanced than Samsung's offering.
It's a beautiful-looking and impressively sleek device given the technical complications, but it's expensive at €2,299 ($2,600).
Whether anyone actually needs a phone that turns into a tablet, given the prevalence of cheaper, big-screen phones right now, is another question.
We took a close look at the Mate X when it was unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Sunday.