Huawei Delays Mate X Folding Phone Again

[realtuner]

Surprise, surprise.

I doubt we’ll see a foldable device (without all the numerous flaws Samsung and Huawei have) for at least another 5+ years, if at all.

Maybe, just maybe, by then Android will actually have useful tablet Apps you’d want to use on such a device. Wait, who am I kidding.

 

[andredicioccio]

so basically what Apple is doing.

Yeah just like with the catalina beta hey.

 

[Classie]

I guess Ive knew what he was talking about.

 

[Kabeyun]

The foldable phone has the potential to return to small form factors while maintaining the trend of huge screen sizes.

As I asserted, there will be no huge screen size that produces a reasonably pocketable phone when folded. There may be a smallish tabletoid screen in an awkward aspect ratio that produces a thickish phone when folded, and I expect it won’t really find a market even if it survives beta testing. No one who relies on a tablet wants a screen that’s an 8” square. A tech revolution might eventually produce a screen that can be folded twice or unrolled, but until then you can look forward to overpriced gimmicks that do neither tablet nor phone particularly well.

 

[manu chao]

Still don’t get the obsession with foldable phones.

It's not phone you (can) fold, it's a phone you (can) unfold or a tablet you (can) fold.

 

[44267547]

Nothing wrong with a delay. Manufacturers should want the product executed right first time, which Samsung set the example of how not to be with the Galaxy Fold. Good that Huawei can recognize when something isn’t ready for the market yet.

 

[sunapple]

As I asserted, there will be no huge screen size that produces a reasonably pocketable phone when folded. There may be a smallish tabletoid screen in an awkward aspect ratio that produces a thickish phone when folded, and I expect it won’t really find a market even if it survives beta testing. No one who relies on a tablet wants a screen that’s an 8” square. A tech revolution might eventually produce a screen that can be folded twice or unrolled, but until then you can look forward to overpriced gimmicks that do neither tablet nor phone particularly well.

Assuming you want both a small phone and a large tablet, you’re right. A twofold won’t be that big.

However, I’m talking about a small phone that folds out to a phablet size. Huge, relatively, for a phone. By 2010 standards anyway, these days phones are getting bigger every year.

Or what to think of the rumored Razr? https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/21/18191330/motorola-razr-lenovo-remake-foldable-smartphone

The trifold could be just around the corner after the twofold is perfected. That can produce a tablet-sized device, although the its wouldn’t be so small in folded mode. I’m thinking here of the devices from Westworld: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/14...fiction-movies-television-westworld-star-trek

 

[trillionaire]

Too distant to get excited. You want nothing that you’ll have to have if you get a folding phone.


No. They won’t. If you want an actual tablet-sized device rather than an iPad mini, you’ll have to fold it twice to get it into your pocket. Glwt.

First, laptops were threatening desktops, and then everyone’s saying that tablets will replace laptops, and now I’m hearing that folding phones will replace tablets. So by the transitive power of silliness, folding phones will apparently replace desktop computers.

Everybody breathe slowly.

This is more an issue of interface and functionality than it is device. You obviously can't do everything you can on a phone that you would be able to do on a laptop/desktop. If that was the case, then a phone could possibly even replace a laptop or a desktop. I work at an online business and already 90% of our customers come through mobile. If you had the same functions on your phone as on your laptop or desktop then a lot of people would be hooking the phone up to a monitor and would have everything on one device. It's just that the phone doesn't serve that purpose because it doesn't have those functions, otherwise, who knows, maybe it would have already replaced everything.

Therefore, the only possibility is devices that have similar functions replacing each other. This means laptops replacing desktops and phones replacing tablets, and this could happen, but only if the manufacturers of these products allow it, which they won't. They'll find a way to make one product distinct enough from the other to make sure you need them both.

 

[johnnyturbouk]

I’d rather not buy Huawei tbh, I have had a couple of their 5G home routers and had nothing but issues, awful products and non existent support. I’m also mindful of all the press on their spying and other unsavoury activities to clandestinely acquire private data!

 

[Mike MA]

so basically what Apple is doing.

Yeah, exactly like they did with AirPower.

 

[Kabeyun]

Yeah, exactly like they did with AirPower.

Not at all. They never made a defective version. They shouldn’t have teased what they couldn’t create, but that’s not the same as making something that turned out to be crappy just to be first to market.

 

[pweicks]

Haha.

 

[Rogifan]

Yeah, exactly like they did with AirPower.

When did apple seed AirPower to anyone? Heck they never even gave out a release date.

 

[farewelwilliams]

They didn't seem to do that for the butterfly keyboard

I think both Samsung and Hauwei were in a race to be the first, but then what happened to Samsung opened their eyes and its better to have a solid product then first.

While they didn't do enough QA on that, I don't think Apple rushed to the butterfly switch technology because they were afraid someone else might implement it.
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Yeah, exactly like they did with AirPower.

They announced that because they needed a reason for being late with Qi charging, IMO.

 

[Brandhouse]

...but the Mate X is even more expensive at $2,600.

I'm guessing that $2,600 is US? Innovation doesn't mean there's no limit to what customers might want to pay. It's just getting stupidly exorbitant now.

 

[Jsameds]

I don't get the obsession with $2000 mini tablets that will get scratched to buggery within a week.

I'm quite happy with my much more durable and capable 5" phone and 11" tablet for less than half the price that will actually receive OS support beyond this decade.

 

[KevinN206]

Not at all. They never made a defective version. They shouldn’t have teased what they couldn’t create, but that’s not the same as making something that turned out to be crappy just to be first to market.

Huawei Mate X was announced for launch in June then September then now TBD but it's not available for pre-order unlike the Galaxy Fold.
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How about we actually take our time with new products like this and get it right, instead of rushing to announce it for the sake of seeming innovative?

Kinda like the AirPower.

 

[Kabeyun]

Huawei Mate X was announced for launch in June then September then now TBD but it's not available for pre-order unlike the Galaxy Fold.
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Kinda like the AirPower.

Missing the point, still not like AirPower. Apple never publicly unveiled a prototype of AirPower. And they didn’t release it precisely because they took their time but couldn’t get a new product right, like the op said.

 

[jsmith189]

Kinda like the AirPower.

(Almost) exactly like that. That wasn't a new product that they were trying to rush out. They just announced it too haphazardly, so basically said NEVERMIND lol. But yes, point remains.