Huawei Mate XT TRIFOLD is launched outside China: Price, Specifications

Huawei launched its TRIFOLD phone on Tuesday, where it was wearing a return in international markets after it was collected by US sanctions.

Mate XT will have a starting price sign of 3,499 euros ($ 3660). Huawei has not yet announced in the countries where the model will be available, but the company asked users to search for local ads. The CNBC examination found that the device is listed for sale in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The device was first released in China last year and drew global conspiracies for being the first triple phone ever. Ordinary folding devices can be folded once in half vertically or horizontally. The Mate XT contains two points that can be folded and can display the content on one, double or three -screen screen.

Huawei was once the world’s largest smartphone player and Apple and Samsung challenged in the excellent part of the market.

US sanctions that begin in 2019 cut Huawei to advanced chips and Google’s Android operating system, causing its market share to decrease. Everything was eliminated from international markets where other brands filled the gap. The share of the Huawei smartphone market outside China is only 0.3 %, according to data from the International Data Research Company.

However, in China, the market share in Huawei increased to 17 % in 2024 of 12 % in the previous year, According to IDCThanks to the return that started in late 2023 when he released a smart phone with a somewhat advanced segment. The component surprised many because the US sanctions over the past few years have sought to reduce China’s access to advanced semiconductor technology.

Huawei hopes to bring this momentum to its market abroad, focusing on high -end devices.

Francisco Jeronimo, Vice President of Data and Analysis at IDC, told CNBC that The Mate XT will not be sold in large sizes and is likely to aim for those who want to show that they are able to withstand the costs of such a price.

“I think what they are [Huawei] I think Trifold can be a unique suggestion of value, and because it is very expensive, they aim to target wealthy individuals who are keen to pretend they have money for the best experience you can get, “said Jeronimo.

However, even if Huawei sells half a million units of Mate XT, it may generate $ 1.5 billion revenues.

Mate XT will be a Huawei attractive test outside China. For one of them, you will not use Google’s Android operating system, which is the most popular in the world.

Although Android phone users can access millions of applications via the Google Play store, the Huawei App Store does not offer some of the most popular Google applications that people depend on outside China, which may hinder the Maat XT attractiveness.

“The lack of Google is still a” hole in the gap “for the prevailing international market, especially those who will pay the higher dollar for triple devices, but they want to operate the Netflix or Google Store from Google or the latest features of Genai Google Gemini”, Neil Shah, partner in Counterpoint Research , Tell CNBC.

GEMINI is a Google artificial chat.