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The Huawai Mate X and Samsung Galaxy Fold are competing for folding phone dominance. Huawei has taken a different approach from Samsung opting for a design that allows for a larger display in fold mode. Which design is more compelling to you? The Samsung Galaxy Fold or Huawei Mate X?
Mate X render footage - https://www.youtube.com/thehacker34
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So it's an exciting time in smartphones. I mean, we all know this. We've been watching and probably
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the thing I'm getting asked about the most in the smartphone universe is folding phones. Is this a
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thing? Should I wait for these? For a while there, it was strictly the Galaxy Fold that people were
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talking about. And rightfully so, it looked like a finished product, like a real product. And we
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hadn't seen that before it was obviously expensive $1,980 but then things got even more interesting
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even more spicy because this device right here came out the Huawei Mate X well it didn't come
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out it was announced showed off and handled in fact and this is a totally different take
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on the concept of a folding phone so in the case of the Galaxy Fold we have this clamshell type
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design which puts another display a supplementary display on the outside of the clamshell which
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allows you to interact with the phone when it's in its folded position. Now that's different
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from the way that Huawei approached their folding design with the Mate X. So of course the purpose
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of this video and the question that everybody has is which implementation do I think is better
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and which phone should you be waiting for if in fact you are waiting for a folding phone So what Huawei did here they took the giant display and they folded it over in the opposite direction So the whole thing a display
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and then the backside just shuts off when you have it in smartphone mode
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What this means is you end up with a bigger display that you can utilize in a more typical smartphone fashion
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but on the front of the device. I must say, I saw some clips of the device
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because of this folding style. it seems that along the hinge portion, you can see some wrinkles in the OLED. Now, of course
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when you're flexing or bending anything, you're going to have to leave some room for these kinds
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of small variances. But the promising part is that when the phone is folded out completely or
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incompletely, it looks like it's not an issue. Now, the next thing to talk about is price
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the Huawei Mate X is like the most expensive smartphone, at least mass market smartphone
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that I've seen probably with the exception of all, you know, those luxury things and whatnot
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The Mate X is said to be priced at €2,999, which converts to about $2,600 USD
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That's a very expensive smartphone, even if it so happens to fold
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But you got 512 gigs of internal storage, 8 gigs of RAM
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and you get a bigger display especially in the folded mode when compared to the Galaxy Fold Now price wise it about 600 more But when it comes to both of these devices I sort of look at them as these loss leader type phones
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I'm not saying they're going to lose money on it, but I don't think margins are the most important aspect of these products, profits
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Instead, they need to act like the F1 car for each of these two brands
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in order to send the message to the smartphone marketplace that the cutting edge exists, well, for Huawei with Huawei or for Samsung with Samsung
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And it seems to be working because the conversations that I'm having in public are following along these lines
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I think the Samsung product at this point right now looks a little more robust
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For some reason, I have slightly more confidence in their approach to the design and the hinge
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with the mechanical components that they showed off during the presentation. but at a distance not having handled either of the two devices which of course i'd love to samsung
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let's talk huawei send it over let's get this uh ball rolling you can bring it you can accompany it
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you can it can be a briefcase with the with the hand handcuff on there if it needs to be but at a
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distance right now there's something for me that's just a bit more compelling about the huawei product
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the Mate X. And I'll tell you what it is. I don think anybody in the folded mode in the slab smartphone mode really wants to downgrade to a smaller display than what they currently used to And with the Huawei device you don have to make that compromise
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You still have a big, you have a giant smartphone with a slim bezel
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and when you're using it in that mode, it looks like a legitimate substitute for whatever flagship people are familiar with
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That's a bit different than what Samsung is doing, obviously. That said, from a manufacturing standpoint, I got to give a little bit more confidence to Samsung just because of the hinge design that they showed off
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It looked robust. It looked strong. But if I had to pick one right now, if I had to have my hands on one, if I had to experiment with one, I think the Huawei product just seems a little bit more advanced
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Nonetheless, it's all good news because at first, when I first heard about these things, I didn't see legitimacy at all
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I was like, maybe I lacked the imagination at the time, but I saw so many holes in these potential implementations
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But these are both, I mean, this has gotten me excited in the tech realm in a way that hasn't happened in a long time
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And you know when these products launch, there's going to be a lot of videos, a lot of interest
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And those questions that are happening for me already in the real world, I'm going to be able to address them in video format
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so you can make a decision for yourself and you can possibly move into the folding future
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that looks to be inevitable at this point
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