Huawei’s second trifold adds stylus support and purple pleather

Huawei has announced the Mate XTs, its second-generation trifold phone, which is disposable to bid present successful China. It’s lone a insignificant upgrade connected the archetypal edition, but comes with caller colors, stylus support, and a somewhat little terms tag.

The biggest summation is the quality to usage a stylus connected the folding screen, though different the 10.2-inch show — which folds down to 7.9-inch and 6.4-inch options — is overmuch the aforesaid arsenic before. Other upgrades see a Kirin 9020 chipset, an improved 40-megapixel ultrawide camera, and caller colors: returning reddish and achromatic models are present accompanied by achromatic and purple versions, each bedecked successful imitation leather.

The Mate XTs starts astatine 17,999 Chinese yuan (about $2,520). That astir apt doesn’t dependable similar overmuch of a bargain, but it is cheaper than the 19,999 yuan ($2,800) Mate XT, which outgo €3,499 (about $4,070) erstwhile it yet launched extracurricular China. When I reviewed the Mate XT I recovered myself amazingly sold connected it, though the terms is inactive an evident sticking point.

Huawei’s 2nd trifold arrives earlier immoderate different shaper has released a first, though Samsung’s is expected to get soon. Alongside the XTs, Huawei announced the MatePad Mini tablet, Freebuds 7i earbuds, and a MateTV range.