{"id":119812,"date":"2025-09-04T17:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119812\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:11:03","slug":"huawei-unveils-us2500-trifold-smartphone-ahead-of-apples-iphone-17-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/119812\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei unveils US$2,500 trifold smartphone ahead of Apple\u2019s iPhone 17 reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/knowledge\/companies\/huawei\/news?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Huawei Technologies<\/a> has launched the Mate XTs \u2013 its second trifold smartphone, which is more affordable than its predecessor \u2013 just five days before Apple is set to unveil its new iPhone 17 series.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Powered by Huawei\u2019s self-developed Kirin 9020 chipset and running on the company\u2019s proprietary HarmonyOS ecosystem, the Mate XTs boasted a 36 per cent performance improvement, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei\u2019s consumer business group, said during the launch event in Shenzhen on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The handset features three screens between 3.6mm to 4.75mm thick, which extends into a 10.2-inch display when fully opened. It weighs 298 grams \u2013 identical to the previous model, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3279026\/huaweis-mate-xt-tri-fold-smartphone-sparks-frenzy-prompting-scalpers-raise-prices?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Mate XT.<\/a> Available in four colours, the 256-gigabyte version starts at 17,999 yuan (US$2,520). Higher storage options are priced at 19,999 yuan and 21,999 yuan \u2013 about 2,000 yuan less than comparable versions of the Mate XT.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Mate XTs comes with the new Huawei M-Pen 3 stylus, designed for navigating the device\u2019s interface, as well as for note-taking and sketching.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Huawei unveiled the Mate XTs during an event in Shenzhen on Thursday. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5794833c-85b5-4e36-b044-732446444638_65dae297.jpg\" title=\"Huawei unveiled the Mate XTs during an event in Shenzhen on Thursday. Photo: Handout\"\/>Huawei unveiled the Mate XTs during an event in Shenzhen on Thursday. Photo: HandoutFor the first time, Huawei has enabled the installation of apps originally designed for personal computers on a smartphone. They included the desktop version of WPS \u2013 a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-war\/article\/3293142\/chinas-microsoft-office-rival-reaches-100-million-daily-users-amid-self-reliance-drive?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chinese alternative to Microsoft Office<\/a> \u2013 and Wind, a local competitor to the Bloomberg Terminal, Yu said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huawei Technologies has launched the Mate XTs \u2013 its second trifold smartphone, which is more affordable than its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1572,1205,66718,49,48,95,19810,49884,15674,8051,49881,20787,66716,26926,190,27142,12157,1574,1382,61,66717,21663],"class_list":["post-119812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-barcelona","tag-bloomberg-terminal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-foldable","tag-harmonyos","tag-hong-kong","tag-huawei","tag-idc","tag-iphone-17","tag-mate-xt","tag-mate-xts","tag-mobile","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-shenzhen","tag-smartphone","tag-taiwan","tag-technology","tag-trifold","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}