Huawei has just launched the world’s first tri-foldable smartphone – the Mate XT Ultimate. It consists of three parts. And yet, even taking into account all these elements and three panels, when folded, the device is almost as thick as the latest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 model.
The photo below shared on Reddit today says more than a thousand words.
On paper, the situation looks like this: the Mate XT is 12.8mm thick, while the Fold6 is 12.1mm thick, so – on paper – Samsung is winning this war.
But – just look at the image above. 0.7mm is an almost imperceptible difference to the human eye. And then there’s the fact that Huawei consists of three! Its screen is 10.2 inches, compared to the Fold6’s foldable display of 7.6 inches. It’s just no comparison.
Here’s what’s going to happen in the comments. Samsung fans will insist that the Korean company is much more meticulous about sturdiness and durability when it comes to foldable devices, which is why it seems like its last innovation in this area was actually the original Galaxy Fold from 2019. It spent all that time tweaking the little things, making sure every detail of its foldable devices is perfect.
The second camp will point out that Samsung’s foldables have looked the same for years, that they’ve only made minor improvements each year, and that most of those improvements are really Samsung (very slowly) fixing a problem it created (the narrow folded format). Chinese smartphone makers like Huawei with its tri-fold and Honor with its Magic V3 (and how thin that smartphone is) have recently become true innovators in this space.
So let’s get to it! People on the aforementioned Reddit thread have definitely been discussing this topic a lot.
