A chance spy shot taken onboard an aircraft may have given us a real-world look at a new type of folding phone from Huawei.
There’s nothing quite like a good old fashioned unreleased-smartphone-spotted-in-the-wild leak, and that’s what we’re dealing with here. The device in question is Huawei ’s rumored triple-fold smartphone, so called because it will fold three times in a Z or N-style format, and we can have a little more confidence than usual that it’s the real thing because of who is holding the phone — none other than Richard Yu , the CEO of Huawei ’s consumer business group.
The cheeky spy photo was taken onboard an aircraft, and clearly shows Yu holding a large screen smartphone that when zoomed in on, seems to have three distinct sections to it, indicating it folds in the way expected from a triple-fold device. It also appears that a single selfie camera is set at the top of the screen section furthest away, which would be an unusual placement on a standard book-style folding phone.
It does look like a fairly thick device though, at least in this single photo, but this may be down to the phone being a prototype, as these are often housed inside a chunky plastic frame-like case that disguises the design. The source of the image isn’t known, but it has spread over Chinese social network Weibo, where it’s also suggested the tri-fold Huawei phone will be expensive, with a converted local price of at least $2,780. This is similar to the original Huawei Mate X folding phone.
Recommended Videos We last heard about Huawei’s triple-fold phone at the end of July. In an interview Richard Yu talked up the phone, saying it had taken five years of research and development to reach its current stage, and that it was being prepared for release by the end of the year, with September being suggested as the month. If the photo taken on the plane does show a close-to-final prototype of the phone, this approximate date sounds plausible.
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