Tri-fold Huawei Mate XT leaks in hands-on image

Huawei’s long-teased tri-fold smartphone is getting official in China on September 10, and it will be called Mate XT. A newly outed image purports to show us a hands-on view of one of the device’s sides, but do take this with a gigantic pinch of salt, since not even the Chinese source of the image is sure of its authenticity.

It’s hard to tell how real this is since the Mate XT will be the very first tri-fold smartphone we’ll ever see. Maybe it will look like this from the side, maybe it won’t. Either way, we’ll have official images in exactly one week, so there isn’t that much more waiting to do.

This Mate XT (if it even is that) is claimed to be an engineering prototype, which has 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. Of course, Huawei may offer other RAM/storage combos as well upon launch. The phone was allegedly listed on a second hand sales platform in China for a whopping CNY 16,888, which right now translates into $2,371 or €2,147.

As this is a first-of-its-kind device, you definitely shouldn’t expect it to be cheap.

Source (in Chinese) | Via