FOLD ON, I’M COMIN’ Huawei Mate X2

Seeing a foldable phone in the wild remains about as commonplace as being shouted at by a duck, but that isn’t putting off companies making them. If anything, it appears to be making them even more enthusiastic about the concept. Enter Huawei’s Mate X2, the Chinese giant’s second-gen foldable handset.

This phone has two distinct shapes, flitting between folded (showcasing its ‘normal’ 6.45in OLED outer screen) and unfolded (where the 8in inner screen comes to the fore). While the screen sizes might not seem too far apart, the aspect ratios – 21:9 for the outer, 8:7.1 for the inner – make them wildly different prospects. Huawei claims to have spent five years perfecting the hinge mechanism so it folds with barely any perceptible gap, while the rear camera setup includes a 50MP main module, 10x zoom and 16MP ultra-wide.

A Kirin 9000 chip means 5G is supported, but don’t get too excited because China gets it first – where prices start at a little under £2k. That’s a lot of the folding stuff. As hot as… an enraged mallard £1980 (est) / huawei.com