Huawei's Next Foldable Smartphone Will Have An Outward-Folding Display

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Huawei has a new foldable smartphone coming and it will have a design that only a few manufacturers, including Huawei, have managed to pull off. The Mate X2 was one of the few foldables Huawei announced in 2021. The phone launched as Huawei's third foldable smartphone but its first with an inward folding design, similar to the Galaxy Z fold 3.

Huawei was one of the early pioneers in the foldable smartphone industry. However, its growth has been slowed by a U.S. ban which dealt a devastating blow to its business by cutting access to components. Last year, Huawei launched its first clamshell foldable smartphone, the P50 Pocket, the company's true rival to Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip series. The phone is only sold in a few markets and the U.S. is not one of them.

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Huawei's first foldable smartphone of 2022 uses a design that's not new but also not popular among phone manufacturers. Confirmed to launch as the Mate Xs 2, according to an official post on Weibo, the device is scheduled for an April 28 launch. What is special about the foldable is that it won't have an inward-folding design similar to the OPPO Find N or the Honor Magic V. Instead, it will have a screen that folds outward.

Following the 2019 Mate X and the 2020 Mate Xs, Huawei will launch the Mate Xs 2 as its third foldable smartphone with an outward-folding display. In this sense, the new foldable is not a real successor to the Mate X2 from 2021, but rather the follow-up to the foldable released in 2020. For those who are closely following Huawei's foldable devices, this shouldn't come as a surprise, since Huawei has always favored this design over the inward-folding design popularized by the