Reports on the Huawei Mate X launch have been a moving target, going from June to September and now, according to the latest news, to Oct. 23.
By Jesus Diaz
One surprise: It seems the foldable phone is coming in rather limited quantities.
The date seems in line with the “end of October” timeframe that Huawei officially gave in September but, what we didn’t know is that Huawei is allegedly going to be very conservative when it comes to the number of Mate X units it will put on the market.
According to Chinese phone network CNMO, Huawei is only making 300,000 phones for the launch in China — which is a stark contrast to the Samsung Galaxy Fold Foldable launch of 700,000 units in South Korea.
We don’t know why Huawei is only launching that limited amount of units; we can only speculate. Perhaps the company is either not very confident about this first version, after seeing all the trouble Samsung has been going through. In fact, we know that the Fold is open for trouble due to the inherent fragility of its (fixed) design. (in fact, here’s proof that is still not fool proof.)
Reports on the Huawei Mate X launch have been a moving target, going from June to September and now, according to the latest news, to Oct. 23.
One surprise: It seems the foldable phone is coming in rather limited quantities. More
