Huawei Aims to Upstage Sep 9 Apple Event With Tri-Fold Phone Debut

[cjsuk]

They also used Leica lenses. A synonym for professional lenses.

More hipster crap these days.

You can put your name on anything to sound impressive.

Lumps of cheap Nikon plastic are far far better and get little fanfare. Zeiss did the same, but everyone forgets their old M42 mount lenses were full of distortion, aberrations and general weirdness (bugs and mushrooms as well) and their entire commercial operation now is on the industrial side of things because, well quite frankly everyone outclassed them.

 

[jiangqiushi]

and no one will care a bit.

You just did.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Well google is also selling foldables as is Samsung. Huawei is giving consumers far more value for money. Apple will never give up their big profits and will hold to it for as long as they can as long as Timmy is CEO.

Yeah, but Samsung has been iterating on their first foldable for the last several years, and Google is now just plainly copying Samsung's homework with theirs.

Huawei is the only one actually trying to push the form factor.

 

[9081094]

There is the goverment of China.

That’s a lousy excuse naysayers are using for apples decline. There are 2 billion people in China. Not all work in government.

 

[Onelifenofear]

triggered apple fans agenda.

Stringing clickbait buzz words together doesn’t make you clever or right.

 

[Realityck]

Most of these so-called tri-fold phones are actually bi-folds. It only takes two movements to unfold or fold them completely. I personally do not want a foldable that unfolds into anything larger than an 8" display, give or take a few millimeters. I'm not a fan of the larger iPads.

Makes sense, my 8.3" iPad mini 6 is perfect for a lot of things while holding it with one hand. Having a tri-folded phone that opens up to 10" means it's harder to hold one handed similar to 10.9"/11" larger iPads, just probably lighter then those.

 

[9081094]

eww, looks like you can see the crease marks.

If it was an foldable iPhone you probably would piss in your pants from excitement 😂😂😂

 

[TheAppleGuySL]

One up the biggest Apple Event of the calendar year? Yeah right 😂

 

[Deine Mudda]

Huawei has announced a September 10 event where the Chinese company plans to unveil the world's first tri-folding smartphone, with the timing of the event an apparently deliberate attempt to upstage Apple's upcoming iPhone 16 reveal.

Huawei teaser showing tri-fold shape​

Huawei hasn't yet officially shown off the pocketable phone, which reportedly has a 10-inch display when completely unfolded, but the company has shared a teaser on Weibo that depicts a device with three folding sides in a sort of reverse Z-shape, leaving little to the imagination about what's headlining the event.

Concepts of a three-fold device have not been in short supply over the years, but Huawei clearly thinks it can bring one to market, although DSCC analyst Ross Young has suggested that it will be the most expensive smartphone yet. The company's consumer and automotive technology executive Richard Yu called it an "epoch-making product."

The Huawei event is scheduled for September 10 at 2:30 p.m. China Standard Time. That translates to 11.30 p.m. Pacific Time on September 9, so the same day of Apple's "It's Glowtime" event for observers on the US West Coast. Apart from the foldable, new smartwatches and an electric car are also expected to be announced by Huawei on stage.

Huawei's recent resurgence has significantly challenged Apple's position in the Chinese smartphone market. According to research firm Canalys, Apple's standing in China has notably declined, with the company falling out of the top five smartphone vendors by market share in the second quarter of 2023.

In stark contrast, Huawei has experienced a remarkable upswing during the same period. The company saw its smartphone shipments in China surge by 41% compared to the same quarter last year, marking the fastest growth rate among the top five brands in the country.

• iPhone 16 Launch Month Is Here: Everything We Know

Apple is unlikely to release a foldable iPhone before 2027, according to Taiwanese research firm TrendForce. Apple is widely expected to release a large-screen foldable iPad or MacBook to kick-off its foray into the product category‌.

Article Link: Huawei Aims to Upstage Sep 9 Apple Event With Tri-Fold Phone Debut

Tri-folding Smartphone. 😂
So it can even destroy itself faster than the first Samsung flip phone.

 

[Harthag]

In Beijing one of the main pedestrian areas has flagship Huawei and Apple stores across the street from each other. Huawei was packed. Ladies modeling, queue ropes, cars, all of their latest foldable tech and other devices. It was an experience. Same thing at Xiaomi stores, sans models, lots of tech and gadgets.

This is an Apple-centric site so of course opinions are skewed. The flagship flip and fold phones from Huawei destroy even Samsung. By the time Apple produces Gen 1 of their foldable the rest of the world will be several generations in. The Honor Magic V3 looks ridiculously good, the tech will get there. I won't buy a foldable either until they somehow can make two panes of glass fold with some moving mechanism in the middle to remove any crease.

To think Apple missed anything is naive. Folding phones are not the profit driver as are larger phones, look at every manufacturer sales data on the two. AI is overhyped and basically a buzz word. It’s just generative language models. As for the Vision Pro, I personally enjoy mine and use it everyday. The price point and learning curb is what people tend to dislike. I remember people used to dislike not having headphone jacks or having nooks lol.

AI is not all hype. I had a 10 minute conversation about dog food and various ingredients and dog behaviors with my Pixel 9XL / Gemini Live yesterday. We went to a BBQ with about 12 people and I used the 'add me' feature with my phone to take a photo with all of us in it. Apple has absolutely missed the boat. Sure in 2025 they may improve a bit. Until then enjoy the glow line around the screen, which is Siri's big advancement since 2010.

I will likely buy a 16 series iPhone myself at some point, but not due to AI.

 

[jdawgnoonan]

You clearly haven't owned a folding phone, have you?? The internal screen is so delicate that a fingernail can cause permanent damage, and until they make the crease completely invisible you can keep living in your dreamland.

And some dust or a hair can mess up the hinge, just what I want for an electronic device that I carry with me everywhere (hiking, biking, going to the beach, etc…).

 

[Onelifenofear]

That’s a lousy excuse naysayers are using for apples decline. There are 2 billion people in China. Not all work in government.

iPhone is still best selling phone in the world. Top 4 phones are all iPhones… no5 is S25 ultra.

Apple market cap is $3.4T, Samsung electronics $323B, huewai is $180B

Not use what metric you are using for decline… but it’s wrong.

 

[9081094]

iPhone is still best selling phone in the world. Top 4 phones are all iPhones… no5 is S25 ultra.

Apple market cap is $3.4T, Samsung electronics $323B, huewai is $180B

Not use what metric you are using for decline… but it’s wrong.

Well… the biggest innovations come from China these days and since the iPhone is also produced in China they should be good at competing. They don’t other brands copied the “secret sauce” from Apple years ago and are leapfrogging Apple in innovation and value for money. Chinese people are far more technology sensitive and don’t buy a product for a logo. Chinese wants the best and latest. Sorry that ain’t Apple anymore.

 

[FineWoven]

Cheap Chinese spyware crap but hey look it folds!! Ooooooooo!!!!!!1

 

[Realityck]

In Beijing one of the main pedestrian areas has flagship Huawei and Apple stores across the street from each other. Huawei was packed. Ladies modeling, queue ropes, cars, all of their latest foldable tech and other devices. It was an experience. Same thing at Xiaomi stores, sans models, lots of tech and gadgets.

The Beijing store design is interesting comparison.

Huawei Flagship Store Beijing by Superimpose Architecture is an interior design project featuring a contemporary reinterpretation of ancient Beijing’s landmarks. The layout of the store has been carefully organized as a series of sequential spaces, inspired by the sequence of squares, scale variation, and symmetry found in ancient Chinese architecture. The facade, inspired by the city’s undulating rooflines, is replicated into graceful curves.

Ever seen a Apple flagship Store with cars on display?

 

[redbeard331]

Not sure id ever buy a foldable, but that new Samsung looks pretty cool. Maybe in a few years when they’ve gotten better, the plastic screens are a showstopper for me.

I’m waiting for some real innovation, how about a scrollable screen? An expandable screen? Or even better, a hologram phone? Everything I see today looks boring, but we all know when the cool future stuff does comes out, it 100% certainly WON’T be Apple wowing the world with it, that will be the Chinese. Apple can’t even make simple slab phones that don’t overheat or go together crooked.

Mediocre countries that can’t compete ban the competition since they can’t keep up with them. Things will only get worse from here on out, in a week Apple will unveil another dated, obsolete device that barely differs from the one I’m typing on now.

 

[9081094]

iPhone is still best selling phone in the world. Top 4 phones are all iPhones… no5 is S25 ultra.

Apple market cap is $3.4T, Samsung electronics $323B, huewai is $180B

Not use what metric you are using for decline… but it’s wrong.

For a $ 3.4 trillion dollar company there comes embarrassing little out of their pipelines.

In the west Apple is (still) doing very well. In other regions where the Chinese get full access they’re in decline. China was Apples second biggest market after the USA. This year their mobile phones didn’t even reached the top 5. iPhone 16 won’t have a positive effect on that (my assumption) because there is hardly any change. Also to notice Apple is selling their iPhones for much less in China than in the USA or Europe.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Most of these so-called tri-fold phones are actually bi-folds. It only takes two movements to unfold or fold them completely. I personally do not want a foldable that unfolds into anything larger than an 8" display, give or take a few millimeters. I'm not a fan of the larger iPads.

Originating in the print world, the term tri-fold is definitely misleading. The hiccup is that tri- is not in reference to the number of folds (as the name suggests) but the number of panels (three) that the two folds yield. Same holds true for bi-fold: it's a single fold yielding two panels. Branding matters. 🤪

I fall in the camp that isn't interested in a foldable until they are A) creaseless and B) made by Apple. That said, there have been many reports claiming the creases are something "you get used to" - not unlike [say] Dynamic Island, jelly scroll - to both of which I have easily adapted. I keep thinking rollable tech is how we'll get to the elusive creaseless "foldable." Regardless of how we get there, the idea of carrying an iPhone Pro and iPad mini in one device has its appeal - from this end-user's pov. But Apple wants me to buy two devices, not one. I can only assume we'll pay handsomely for their foldable. We shall see.

 

[redbeard331]

Well google is also selling foldables as is Samsung. Huawei is giving consumers far more value for money. Apple will never give up their big profits and will hold to it for as long as they can as long as Timmy is CEO.

I don’t think it matters who the CEO is, when Tim retires they’ll install another figurehead that works to please Wall Street and inflate their quarterly profits. Making the best devices and crushing the competition in no way does that.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Or even better, a hologram phone?

Red Hydrogen One entered the chat 😂

 

[BigBellyBelcher]

Things a piece I'll bet. Apple needs u to get an iPhone iPad Mac can't get a phone that folds into all of those the stock won't allow.

 

[blazerunner]

Back in the days Huawei was able to sell their phones in Europe they already were able to shift the focus on photos after you took them. Their midrange cameras matches or outclasses the pro models of iPhone. They really took the market by storm before they got banned. They also used Leica lenses. A synonym for professional lenses.

Half true; yes, they're "professional grade" but pretty limited. The Leica cameras are just a rich man's toy with excellent IQ but beyond that, Leica isn't really that popular; most professionals are shooting on either Canon or Sony. Leica does now produce for Panasonic full frame cameras, but they're not that popular. Leica's M43 lenses are great but limited. The Leica lenses that really separate themselves from the rest are their primes, like the 42.5mm f/1.2 that creates that '3D pop' look... their zoom lenses dont have the same reputation.

 

[Harthag]

Well… the biggest innovations come from China these days and since the iPhone is also produced in China they should be good at competing. They don’t other brands copied the “secret sauce” from Apple years ago and are leapfrogging Apple in innovation and value for money. Chinese people are far more technology sensitive and don’t buy a product for a logo. Chinese wants the best and latest. Sorry that ain’t Apple anymore.

I was blown away by the infrastructure and focus on tech / modernization while there. Airports and hotels too. I didn't use cash at all. AliPay and Didi non-stop for 2+ weeks. Didi is incredible and blows away Uber / Lyft here in the U.S. The impression I got over there is embrace the tech or get left behind. In the U.S. we still cater to the lowest common denominator and it inhibits progress.

Cheap Chinese spyware crap but hey look it folds!! Ooooooooo!!!!!!1

Apple is secure because Tim and the U.S. government says so...

 

[cocky jeremy]

Won't make the news? MacRumors (U.S.-based) is reporting about it.

Then there's

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/02/huawei-plans-sept-10-launch-event-just-hours-after-apple-iphone-launch.html

Huawei Sets Up Apple Showdown With Event Hours After New iPhone

Huawei Technologies Co. is preparing to launch new products at an event mere hours after Apple Inc.’s debut for the iPhone 16, setting the stage for the two tech giants’ next clash.

www.bloomberg.com

I call that making the news.

Macrumors is hardly news.

 

[Nuno Lopes]

Love my Fold, never going back to anything else. Most existing product I unwrapped since the initial iPhone / iPad or Apple Watch.

FYI this is the CEO of Huawei's consumer group:

This looks nice … apart from the creases. Was not a fan of the dual fold. Maybe the triple allowing for more real estate works to compensate …

Waiting for the price.