Within the past month, the Chinese smartphone market has been very noisy with the launch of two companies’ foldable smartphones.
Samsung launched its Galaxy Fold in the Chinese market for the first time on November 8th. Exactly a week later, Huawei also launched its own version of a foldable smartphone, the Mate X in China.
The two have fierce competition by launching the same kind of product in a similar timeline. Even though Mate X is 1,000 yuan more expensive than Galaxy Fold, the two showed similar performance in the market.
Galaxy Fold managed to sell out all of its first batches in the online stores within ten seconds only. While it took a little longer for Mate X which sold its first batch within less than one minute.
Samsung Galaxy Fold sells its smartphone through online stores and e-commerce companies such as TMall. Meanwhile, Huawei only sells it at its own online store.
However, since both companies have not disclosed the number of sales, it is difficult to determine exactly how many units sold.
Which is the better foldable smartphone?
First of all, from the perspective of price, Galaxy Fold is ahead with only 15,999 yuan. Mate X is 1,000 more expensive at 16,999 yuan. However, Huawei Mate X is available in 5G technology while Galaxy Fold only supports 4G.
Samsung plans to launch the 5G model of the flagship phone next month.
On the other hand, Samsung has a more mature foldable technology than Huawei. The few months spent in agony to revise its screen technology didn’t come in waste. The screen doesn’t crack even through million times of folding and unfolding.
Unfortunately, Huawei must bear the title of the premature product as it announced that users can’t fold its foldable phone when the temperature is below 5-degree Celcius.
Ironically, most region in China goes through below zero degree Celcius along winter.
