Specifications:
- Processor: HiSilicon Kirin 980 (7 nm), Octa-core (2 × 2.6 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2 × 1.92 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4 × 1.8 GHz Cortex-A55), Mali-G76 MP10 graphics + Balong 5000 5G modem
- Operating system: Android 9.0 (Pie), shell EMUI 9.1
- Memory: 8GB / 512GB, nanoSD combo slot
- Screen: 6.6 inches, AMOLED, 1148 x 2480 dots, 19.5: 9 + 6.38 inches, AMOLED, 2480 x 892 dots, 25: 9 ratio = 8 inches, 2480 x 2200 dots, ratio 8: 7.1
- Battery: Li-Po 4500 mAh, fast charging 55 W
- Main camera: 40 MP, f / 1.8, 27mm (wide angle), 1 / 1.7 ″, P DAF + 16 MP, f / 2.2, 17mm (ultra wide angle) + 8 MP, f / 2.4, 52mm (telephoto) + ToF camera, optical stabilization, 3x optical zoom, AIS stabilization (combination of artificial intelligence and optical stabilization)
- Front camera: no
- Sim card: 2 Nano-SIM
- Network and data transmission: GSM 900/1800/1900, 3G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac, Bluetooth 5.0, A2DP, LE, aptX HD, dual-band A- GPS, GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS, IrDa, NFC, USB Type-C
- Sensors: Fingerprint scanner (side), accelerometer, proximity, lighting, gyroscope, compass, barometer
- Other: no FM radio, there is a 3.5 mm jack
- Dimensions: unfolded 161.3 x 146.2 x 5.4 mm, folded 161.3 x 78.3 x 11 mm, weight 295 grams
- Package: Type-C headphones, leather case, super fast charging adapter, special protective film
- Price: RMB 16,999 (US $ 2,420)
China has started selling a smartphone with a flexible screen from Huawei. The price in terms of dollars is $ 2,420. The first batch was sold out in an online store in less than a minute. The second batch will go on sale on November 22.
Interestingly, on the day of the bachelor, Samsung staged a sale of its Galaxy Fold folding smartphone. Sold for $ 2,000. In the US, the Galaxy Fold is available with a two-week wait in BestBuy stores for $ 1,929, or about 123,000 rubles. It surprises many times what is wrong with Russia, that every manufacturer, be it Apple or Samsung, breaks the price tag. Indeed, in Russia the Galaxy Fold costs 159,990 rubles, that is, 2,270 euros or 2,510 dollars.
Of course, in China Huawei the Mate X will be in huge demand. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, in fact, this is the only smartphone with a flexible screen on the market. From time to time, Samsung appears on the horizon, but as you remember, the Korean company has profiled the Chinese market and holds a share of less than 1%.
Secondly, if you look at the latest report Huawei, you can see a huge increase in sales in the Chinese market. Huawei is still on the wave. The decline in sales in international markets is more than offset by domestic ones.
Third, the Huawei Mate X is an expensive smartphone by any standard. People with such sums usually occupy difficult positions, and they receive more attention from the all-seeing Chinese eye. So think, will they buy a Korean or a native Chinese smartphone? If I were in the place of the Chinese government, I would have called everyone who bought the Galaxy Fold for a conversation.
Fourthly, if in the global markets the sales of Hauwei Mate X are questionable, since they lack Google services, then in China there is absolutely no problem with this, since Google has been tightly blocked for a long time, and the locals do not even know what it is. YouTube and Gmail.
US sanctions aimed at stopping China only slightly weakened it and greatly angered it. And, probably, in the near future, the US will regret its aggression. Speaking of mobile electronics, China currently sits tightly on the platform Android as well as on ARM chipsets. But in the announced strategy 'Made in China 2025', creating and developing our own semiconductors is the main task. For example, in September, Alibaba revealed its XuanTie 910 chipset, which the company will use for the Internet of Things. The processor architecture is based on the RISK-V concept (risk five).
The 'Made in China 2025' strategy should catapult China into a technology leader. Providing the country with its own chipsets should reach 40% in 2020 and 70% in 2025. This task is viewed primarily through the prism of national security interests.
Arm Holding, as a UK company, said it will continue to do business with Huawei despite US sanctions. However, the process was launched, the Chinese became agitated and began to actively develop their processors. For example, a Bluetooth RISC-V chip, created by the state-owned Unisoc Technologies, was recently shown.
A subsidiary Xiaomi called Huami also stated that its new wearable devices use self-developed RISC-V processors.
The HiSilicon Chipset Development Division Huawei is also active in RISC-V development.
In the world at the moment, only China is busy with the active development of the RISC-V architecture, and unexpectedly it turned out that the Chinese were ahead of the rest. Although both Google and IBM are participating in the study of this technology.
Unfortunately, in terms of global sales, China faces a difficult question. After all, the main thing is not the chipset itself, but the ecosystem and applications. And by developing its own chipset, a country can defend itself against the cunning of other countries, but it is unlikely to be able to sell such consumer devices to foreign buyers.
Most likely, a bipolar world awaits us in the near future. On the one hand – iOS and Android, and on the other – own Chinese chipsets and local operating systems. I think the Chinese government will gladly do so, because it will make it even easier to control the population. Well, foreigners who come to China will not have to rearrange SIM cards, but buy a local smartphone.
The most interesting thing is how other manufacturers of equipment will react to this. For example, will Apple make a special RISC-V version iPhone or will it say goodbye to the Chinese market?