Flexible phones

are now taking over the market.The Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei unveiled the mystery surrounding its smartphone with a foldable screen which the company was working on for quite some time.

Although it is definitely not the first device in the industry that can be bent. Samsung has just released its famous

Samsung Galaxy Fold

, some sources claim that Xiaomi and Apple might also be developing phones with the same concept. However, the first doesn’t mean the best.

Let’s take a closer look at Mate X and its characteristics, and find out how it compares to Galaxy Fold.

The gadget was officially released online, and after that shown to the journalists from all over the world in the “secret chamber” during the Mobile World Congress, an annual event, devoted to the newest and most creative devices, held in Barcelona, Spain.

As for the screen, it has an unusual asymmetrical design. When it’s unfolded, it is a 8-inch wholesome OLED display, once folded outwards, it turns into two smaller screens: 6.6 and 6.38 inches correspondingly.

Such a twist was performed in order to input a triple Leica camera, which, besides other things, can be used as a selfie camera as well. The asymmetrical design provides space to fit in a camera flash and photosensors.

As we also briefly mentioned before, Huawei Mate X is the thinnest foldable smartphone in the world - just 11 mm in the folded state, and 5.4 mm in the unfolded state.

Mate X also became the first one according to another feature. With its 4500

mAh battery, it is the fastest charging smartphone in the world. In 30 minutes the gadget can go from 0% to 85% of its battery charge.

Furthermore, the developers integrated their own modem into the phone, so Huawei Mate X supports 5G. The company claims that their gadget is the fastest 5G smartphone, however, this information has not yet been checked.

And last, but certainly not least, we could not leave out the details on the price. The approximate price of Huawei Mate X is 2600 dollars (Samsung Galaxy Fold costs 1980 dollars), which definitely makes it the most expensive foldable smartphone.

The new foldable Huawei will be available for purchase sometime in the middle of 2019.

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Briefly speaking, Huawei Mate X is thinner, bigger and much more expensive that its South Korean competitor.