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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Huawei's Mate XT garnered 2.7 million preorders within hours of its launch.</li><li>The trifold smartphone will be unveiled just hours after Apple's Glowtime event.</li></ul>One of China's top smartphone makers raked in 2.8 million preorders for its latest phone just one day after reservations began — even before people learned its price.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rise-of-chinese-telecoms-company-huawei-2024-5">Huawei's</a> Mate XT, a trifold smartphone, is set to be unveiled during an event on Tuesday in China. On Huawei's online sales platform, which is selling the device in two colors, nearly 3 million people had registered interest at publication time.The company's event will be hours after Apple is expected to launch a slate of new products, including the iPhone 16, at its <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-new-iphone-ai-capabilities-expected-at-glowtime-event-2024-9">fall Glowtime event</a>.Huawei said its phone will go on sale on September 20. The company will likely talk more specifics, including pricing, at Tuesday's event, and it may also showcase its new line of electric vehicles.Huawei didn't immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.The timing of the launch and its preorder success signals Huawei's ability to compete directly with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apples-foldable-iphone-plan-doesnt-sound-that-convincing-2024-7">Apple</a>. The US smartphone giant has been <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-new-iphone-16-china-market-sales-glowtime-2024-9">losing ground</a> in China, the company's most <a target="_blank" rel="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ceo-tim-cook-china-development-forum-xi-jinping-meeting-2024-3">important international market, </a>because of weakening consumer interest. China made up about 17% of Apple's sales in the three months ending June 29.<h2 id="2eb7dbf2-c1bc-4acc-a198-3b80a2e2bd86">Comeback story</h2>Huawei was one of the world's biggest smartphone players in the world before <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-is-firing-back-again-in-china-chip-semiconductor-wars-2024-3">US sanctions</a> in 2019 crushed its handset sales and prevented it from accessing the latest semiconductors.But the Shenzhen-based firm turned those sanctions into a comeback story last year.Huawei <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-china-new-headache-huawei-pura-70-2024-4">shocked the world</a> by <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-smartphone-own-designs-processors-5g-2023-9">designing its own processors</a> for a superfast smartphone and raised fears that China <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-15-faces-battle-against-china-huawei-mate-60-2023-9">is rapidly producing solutions to bypass restrictions</a> on its access to Western tech. In April, Huawei also launched a new smartphone series.While pricing for the latest phone, which folds twice, is not known, Huawei has recently been competing with Apple in the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-price-cuts-averted-china-crisis-tim-cook-2024-5">same price territory</a>.Huawei's Pura 70 — its April release — costs 5,499 yuan, or $774, while Apple's iPhone 15 starts at 5,999 yuan. Pro and Ultra versions of both phones cost about $1,400.According to data compiled by third parties, Apple has recently <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-falls-out-of-top-five-smartphone-shippers-china-reports-2024-7">fallen off the list of the top five</a> best-selling smartphone makers in China.According to an IDC report, local manufacturers like Vivo, Huawei, and Xiaomi gained significant ground in the second quarter, while Apple saw a 3% year-on-year decline in market share.

Huawei's new trifold phone got more than 2 million preorders in a few hours, just before Apple is set to announce new iPhones

<ul><li><keyword id="215177" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vivo" source="Orion">Vivo</keyword> has filed a patent for a foldable device.</li><li>This device is likely to have a hinge-less folding mechanism.</li><li>It may also come with a projection virtual keyboard.</li></ul>Samsung’s <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-3-first-impressions/slidelist/85624194.cms">Galaxy Z Fold</a> and Flip series devices are one of the most prominent foldable phones in the market, many rumours and leaks have been doing rounds that suggest foldable devices from <keyword id="1731609" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="oppo" source="Orion">Oppo</keyword> and its <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/oneplus-patent-hints-at-a-foldable-smartphone-with-three-screens/articleshow/87862274.cms">subsidiary, OnePlus</a>. And now, a patent of Vivo suggests that a hinge-less foldable device may be on the cards from the Chinese smartphone maker. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Vivo’s hinge-less foldable" comment="subhead" text="Vivo’s hinge-less foldable">Vivo’s hinge-less foldable</cmsannotation> According to <a href="https://nl.letsgodigital.org/opvouwbare-telefoons/vivo-tri-fold-smartphone/">LetsGoDigital</a>, Vivo’s patent suggests a double-folding smartphone with a projection virtual keyboard. The patent was filed in June this year with the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) and it documents a smartphone that is like a regular smartphone when folded, but it can unfold into the tablet. Interestingly, this foldable device uses a hinge-less mechanism to fold and unfold. The folding process will be powered by a telescoping system that does require hinges and can prevent the creases that form with regular uses of these foldable devices. The telescopic system may feature additional components such as a groove to hide it from the outside. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Vivo trifold device" comment="subhead" text="Vivo trifold device"><keyword id="12646480" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vivo-trifold" source="Orion">Vivo trifold</keyword> device</cmsannotation> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1nuQVSYee8">Parvez Khan</a>, a graphic designer, teamed up with LetsGoDigital to create a 3D product render of Vivo’s trifold device based on the patent. According to the render, the smartphone will have narrow edges, with the top and bottom edges equipped with the camera set-up and other sensors. The folding would be similar to that in Samsung’s foldable phones, Z-fold, and it will not require an additional front display as the top screen automatically converts into the front display. This is different from the expected <keyword id="2210217" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="oneplus" source="Orion">OnePlus</keyword> foldable smartphone, which is likely to have a “6” or “G” fold. <div type="Youtube" id="J1nuQVSYee8" title="Vivo Tri Fold Phone : Virtual Keyboard" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J1nuQVSYee8/mqdefault.jpg"></div> <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Projection Virtual Keyboard" comment="subhead" text="Projection Virtual Keyboard">Projection Virtual Keyboard</cmsannotation> The product render suggests the phone unfolds into an 8-inch tablet and the company wants to offer a 16:9 screen ratio screen, which is similar to laptops. And with the addition of a projection virtual keyboard, productivity can be increased manifold. This will mean that you would be able to use the smartphone like a compact notebook if it can be supported by an accessory for the keyboard to be projected at the right position. Although the renders are based on the patent, Vivo might not launch a device exactly similar or even close to the product render. However, Vivo may use some of the technologies from the patents to launch its devices in the future. The virtual keyboard may be a concept that Vivo wants to deploy on its future tablets and regular smartphones. While the foldable device may altogether be a separate device having its own unique features. However, we will only get more details once Vivo announces the specifics of its foldable device. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/mobile/news/iphone-se-3-flagship-mobile-release-date-specs-and-price/articleshow/88024642.cms">iPhone SE 3 release date, specs and price — all you need to know</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/snapdragon-8-gen-1-chip-improved-performance-camera-capabilities-and-more/slidelist/88022289.cms">Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip: Improved performance, camera capabilities and more</a>

Vivo’s new patent hints at a hinge-less foldable phone with a laser projection keyboard

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Huawei's Mate XT trifold smartphone debuted Friday in China, as did Apple's iPhone 16.</li><li>Huawei said it had <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-folding-phone-millions-orders-apple-glowtime-event-iphone-smartphone-2024-9">millions of preorders</a>, while Apple had customers lining up outside its stores.</li></ul>It's not every day that you have two rival smartphones arriving on the same day.Huawei's trifold smartphone, the Mate XT, debuted Friday in China, as did <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-16-launches-in-apple-stores-2024-9">Apple's iPhone 16</a> — and it's turning out to be a showdown between the tech rivals in the largest smartphone market in the world, where Apple is working to reclaim slipping territory.The competition has been tight over the past year, and Huawei has looked to upstage Apple with its most recent launch.Hours after Apple unveiled its <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/iphone-16">iPhone 16 models</a> earlier this month, Huawei announced the Mate XT would drop on the same day.Huawei said it secured <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-folding-phone-millions-orders-apple-glowtime-event-iphone-smartphone-2024-9">over 2.7 million preorders</a> for the trifold smartphone in the first few hours, and the $2,800 device was listed at three times its retail price on <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-mate-xt-resale-prices-skyrocket-apple-2024-9">resale sites</a>. Ahead of launch day, the company said preorders crossed 6.5 million units.For Americans, there won't be the temptation to choose the Mate XT over the iPhone 16, as the Chinese smartphones haven't been available directly from the company in the US since <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-trump-united-states-ban-explained-2019-5">being placed on the "Entity List"</a> in 2019.<div type="image" title="Huawei's Mate XT trifold smartphone sits on a display." height="3334" width="4445" msid="113535024" hostid="261" sizebytes="165862"></div>But in China, Huawei started delivering its new phones to customers who preordered them shortly after 10 a.m. local time on Friday, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/20/huaweis-trifold-proving-popular-among-apple-iphone-fans-in-beijing.html">CNBC</a> reported from Beijing. While people lined up at Apple stores as early as 5:30 a.m. to be first in line for the new iPhone when stores opened at 8 a.m., Huawei stores in Beijing and Hefei didn't have lines, the news outlet reported.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/huaweis-2800-tri-fold-phone-hits-stores-amid-supply-concerns-2024-09-20/">Reuters</a> reported seeing about 30 people lining up at the Huawei stores in Shenzhen and Beijing, compared with Apple's 100 prospective customers lined up outside a Beijing store.<div type="image" title="Customers in Guangzhou, China line up to enter an Apple store." height="1500" width="2000" msid="113535027" hostid="261" sizebytes="277382"></div>The disparity could be partly due to how Huawei distributed the first batch of Mate XT sales. Some superfans of the company told Reuters they were disappointed to find out that they couldn't walk in to purchase the trifold device, which was apparently reserved for people who had preordered it.Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment made outside local business hours.<h2 id="881f3c2e-dd4e-4fae-9ba2-cd2c54cdad6d">Key differences in price — and design</h2>To make the competition between the companies even more intense, both brands are touting their own artificial-intelligence features.The Mate XT includes generative-AI and satellite-communication features. Meanwhile, Apple has made splashy announcements of its own gen-AI offerings, collectively called Apple Intelligence, but those features won't start rolling out to the iPhone 16 until October.The phones are otherwise strikingly different in appearance and price, with Huawei benefiting on social media from its eye-catching trifold design, which allows the phone to expand out into a tablet-sized device with a 10.2-inch screen.<div type="image" title="Huawei Mate XT" height="4480" width="6720" msid="113535026" hostid="261" sizebytes="238668"></div>It's one step further than previous foldable-phone designs, and the Mate XT's $2,800 price tag means customers will have to pay a hefty premium to be among the first to own the phone. Apple's iPhone 16 line starts at $800.Apple's hardware design is more iterative by comparison, but there are some notable changes. The iPhone 16 offers a new "camera control" button and brings the "action" button previously found only on the iPhone 15 Pro models to the entry-level iPhone 16 as well.<div type="image" title="The iPhone 16's new Camera Control button." height="938" width="1686" msid="113535028" hostid="261" sizebytes="75212"></div>While Apple is betting that subtler tweaks to its form factor and bigger changes to its software will persuade buyers to upgrade to the iPhone 16 line, there are signs we could see some different designs in the coming years.Apple, The Information reported in February, has been exploring <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-foldable-iphone-prototypes-report-2024-2">prototypes for two folding phones</a> after chewing on the idea for years. The tech giant, which typically prefers to wait to launch into a new category until it feels ready to dominate it, would be late to the game as competitors have already <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apples-foldable-iphone-plan-doesnt-sound-that-convincing-2024-7">produced similar products</a>, including US-available Samsung and Google Pixel devices.In the meantime, the company is looking to launch a noticeably thinner <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/thinner-iphone-17-air-smart-move-apple-2024-8">iPhone Air</a> as soon as next year, Bloomberg reported last month.<h2 id="717fa620-0889-4e0d-a256-c1d675763c13">Apple has faced headwinds in China</h2>In 2023, Apple became the best-selling smartphone in China, a monumental achievement that came years after the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-folding-phone-millions-orders-apple-glowtime-event-iphone-smartphone-2024-9">US slapped sanctions on Huawei</a> in 2019, which locked the Chinese company out of access to the newest semiconductors. In response, Huawei <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/huawei-smartphone-own-designs-processors-5g-2023-9">designed its own processors</a> to use in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-china-new-headache-huawei-pura-70-2024-4">line of smartphones</a> released in April.But Apple's victory was short-lived as the company's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-sales-china-down-huawei-vivo-smartphone-2024-3">iPhone sales in China fell an estimated 24%</a> in the first six weeks of 2024, according to data from the market-research firm Counterpoint Research. Vivo became the new top smartphone seller in the region.Since then, Apple has faced questions from Wall Street during its earnings calls about the company's smartphone sales in China.Vivo maintained its lead in China in the second quarter, followed by Apple and Huawei, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/china-smartphone-q2-2024/">Counterpoint Research</a> found. Apple saw an estimated 5.7% market-share decline year over year in the quarter, while Huawei's sales jumped nearly 45% over the same period, the firm's data showed.Some on Wall Street, such as the analyst firm Wedbush Securities, feel that Apple could be turning a corner in China with the iPhone 16.The firm <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-16-super-cycle-may-be-greatly-exaggerated-2024-9">predicted earlier this month</a> that the iPhone 16 will be Apple's "most successful iPhone unit launch in its history as Apple Intelligence will be the launching pad for the consumer AI Revolution globally."But with fierce launch-day competition in China, you can bet Wall Street will be looking to see whether Huawei complicates the Apple comeback story.

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