Apple and Samsung have both been strongly linked with plans for foldable phones in a boxy, wide aspect ratio, but it looks like another company will get there first. Huawei has just revealed the design of the Pura X Max, a new foldable it\u2019s launching in China next week, and its passport-esque form factor is a dead ringer for early leaks of the iPhone Fold.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know too much about the Pura X Max yet, which will get a full release on April 20th alongside the colorful Pura 90 series<\/a>, but early images shared by Huawei<\/a> show blue, white, orange, and black versions of the phone, all featuring a triple rear camera. The rear design, with gridded sections with different textured finishes, is taken from the original Pura X<\/a>, which launched last year, and is also wider than other foldables \u2014 Huawei has previous here, and isn\u2019t just chasing a trend.<\/p>\n The Pura X is smaller than the X Max appears to be, and was marketed as a flip phone, with the odd expectation that you\u2019d rotate the whole phone into portrait as you open it. The X Max looks more like a cross between the classic flip and book form factors, though it\u2019s also reminiscent of early foldables like Google\u2019s first-gen Pixel Fold<\/a> or Oppo\u2019s initial Find N<\/a>. It\u2019s telling that Huawei\u2019s early imagery shows people using the opened phone in both portrait and landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple and Samsung have both been strongly linked with plans for foldable phones in a boxy, wide aspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1631,786,59,4755,2306,50,6994,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-528310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-foldable-phones","9":"tag-gadgets","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-huawei","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phones","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}