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Huawei considered clamshell design for its foldable phone but gave up

By Phate Zhang
Mar 1, 2020 at 1:39 PM UTC
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Huawei considered clamshell design for its foldable phone but gave up-CnTechPost

Huawei had considered launching a device similar to the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's clamshell design, but this plan was later rejected, according to a Huawei executive who spoke to media after the launch event for the new Mate Xs foldable phone.

"If you open it up and there [isn't] more smartphone, why โ€ฆ do [a] foldable?" Huawei UK MD Anson Zhang told Trusted Reviews.

"You do the foldable in order to enhance the user experience. Why do people [want] a foldable? โ€ฆ They want a device with a bigger screen but pocketable โ€“ that is the reason behind [it]."

The company instead opted for a foldable phone design that would unfold into a larger display to give users a better experience, which became the Huawei Mate X series.

"You do foldable in order to have better views โ€“ reading, video, even multi-task as Richard [Yu] showed," Zhang said, referring to Huawei's CEO, who debuted the Mate Xs on stage at the event.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip has a 6.7-inch FHD+ (2,636x1,080) display when it is unfolded. The display is quite narrow with a ratio of 21.9:9.

Huawei considered clamshell design for its foldable phone but gave up-CnTechPost

The Huawei Mate Xs is slightly shorter, but it is more than twice the width of the Z Flip. The unfolded display is 8 inches (2,480x2,200).

Flexible materials have always been a key issue affecting the development of foldable devices, which is why the first generation of foldable devices often used plastic instead of glass.

But even if Samsung Galaxy Z Flip uses ultra-thin glass, the phone's display is still as easy to be scratched as the plastic display.

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