We compared the two folding smartphones at Mobile World Congress 2019 based on everything we've seen and been told so far.
The folding phones are one of the biggest innovations in the smartphone market for years, and were the main talking point at Mobile World Congress 2019.We are at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona it's the biggest global conference for mobile in the world and it's pretty exciting because Huawei has now launched its own foldable phone, The Mate X and that's a few days after Samsung also launched a foldable phone called The Galaxy Fold.
We had a bit more of a chance to see the Huawei Mate X close up and we could see the screen was pretty impressive from what little time we had with it. So in terms of a real world, you know, how the phones perform in the real world, I think Huawei's a little bit ahead of Samsung on this one. Now that adds a tiny bit of bulk to the device, when it's folded out, it otherwise looks very slim, but the advantage is that you can hold that kind of sidebar where the cameras are and sort of grip while you're holding the tablet, that works quite nicely, and then you know when the tablet folds back in, you know the camera array is still visible on the side and you can still use it like any normal smartphone.
The suspicion is that there is, in fact, a fourth camera lens in the back of the device, that Huawei's gonna reveal at some later date, when it reveals its next batch of phones. Both phones have quite powerful batteries. When you've folded the device back up into smartphone mode, it doesn't quite fold flat, it's not completely flat when you fold it up, so that slightly creates sort of an extra bulk.