Huawei teases upgraded Mate X foldable with better hinge and tougher screen

Huawei will release an improved version of its Mate X folding smartphone next year, with a better hinge, tougher screen, and faster processor. The details come from Richard Yu, leader of Huawei’s consumer business, who spoke to Frandroid during a trip to Huawei’s headquarters.

Huawei also intends to bring the current Mate X to Europe, seemingly in the first quarter of 2020, according to The Verge.

The Mate X only came out last month, going on sale in China for $2,400.

The folding phone trend is primed to expand next year, particularly with the arrival of Motorola’s new Razr. Other companies, like Samsung, are likely to iterate on their existing designs — hopefully delivering somewhat more polished, mature products than the very extensive and fairly fragile early units we saw this year.