Huawei unveils Mate XTs, second-gen folding phone in China Sept 12

Huawei on Wednesday unveiled the Mate XTs, its second-generation trifold smartphone, launching the device in China with deliveries scheduled to begin on September 12, the company said. The Mate XTs keeps the distinctive twice-folding design of its predecessor and aims to refine the concept with a new chipset, updated cameras and wider color and storage options.

The centerpiece remains a single 10.2-inch LTPO OLED panel that folds twice to offer three usable form factors: a 10.2-inch full tablet mode, a 7.9-inch dual-screen mode and a 6.4-inch one-handed phone mode. Huawei describes the display as 3,184 by 2,232 resolution with a 161:1 aspect ratio, up to 1,800 nits peak brightness and a variable refresh rate that drops as low as 1 Hz and rises to 90 Hz. The panel supports stylus input in any configuration, a capability Huawei emphasized as a productivity feature.

Under the hood the Mate XTs is powered by Huawei’s Kirin 9020 chip, which the company says delivers a roughly 36 percent performance increase over the Kirin 9010 used in last year’s Mate XT. Reports differ on the exact scale of the upgrade, and some coverage described the improvement more cautiously as an unspecified...