The Chinese company Huawei has received more than 2.7 million pre-orders for the world’s first tri-fold smartphone, the Mate XT, the official presentation of which will take place tomorrow. The vendor began accepting pre-orders on Saturday, several days ahead of Apple, which will present the new iPhone 16 this evening.
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Details about the unusual tri-fold Mate XT will only be revealed tomorrow. Not much is known about the device at the moment, despite Huawei releasing a teaser video showing off the Mate XT a few days ago. The retail price of the new product has not yet been announced. Official sales of the first tri-fold smartphone will begin on September 20.
It is curious that at the end of the second quarter, Apple fell out of the top five largest smartphone suppliers in the Chinese market. According to Canalys analysts, for the first time, Chinese manufacturers took all the first five places in the ranking in terms of smartphone shipments to the home market. According to experts, in the second quarter Huawei sold 10.6 million smartphones in the Chinese market, which allowed the company to take fourth place in the ranking. During the same period, Apple sold about 10 million iPhones in the country.