The Friday (20.09.2024) commercial premiere of the expected smartphone Huawei Technologies Mate XT tri-fold (folded double) ran as expected by the manufacturer. Long queues were formed in front of Huawei's corporate stores, and the resold equipment in the grey area began to wipe hands with pleasure. Huawei's fresh telephone made the good old days come back, before the beginning of sanctions imposed by the US government on the Chinese telecommunications company. It seems that Huawei has learned lessons from lessons given by subsequent American administrations and has found a way out of the situation. Moreover, Huawei decided to step on the toes of his stalkers.
It was originally planned that Mate XT tri-fold would enter the marketplace around 10 September. But erstwhile Apple reported that it was starting to sale iPhone16 in China on September 20, the head of the Shenzhen Group changed its head and decided to push the day of release to September 20th just now.
The first data collected from the marketplace by Jefferies is meaningful: in Hong Kong, it was “probably the worst consequence of the first day of trading fresh iPhones”. The resale prices of the fresh flagship model Apple ‘have already broken down on the first day, precisely during the first 3 hours of trading. Around 13:30, dealers in the Mongkok area ( Hong Kong divider) stopped buying any iPhone 16 models another than Pro Max in Desert color, 256-giga".
According to Jefferies, last year, iPhone15 was sold with a bedspread from 3% to 34% even 4 days after the authoritative sale began.
Meanwhile, last Friday, many Huawei fans left disappointed stores. It turned out that on that day there was no 256-gigabyte model of Mate XT, which costs 19 999 yuan (nearly 11 1000 zlotys), which is more than twice as much as iPhone 16 Pro Max. By Thursday, September 19, more than 6.5 million consumers made reservations for the acquisition of the Huawei Mate XT 5G telephone via Vmall online store. Huawei started pre-sale without deposit on September 7.
Strong request for Mate XT, whose supply is limited, prompted sellers at HuaQiangBei in Shenzhen, the world's largest wholesale electronics market, to triple the telephone sales price. Many vendors have put out this camera at prices ranging from 60,000 yuan to 70,000 yuan. Yes – Chinese were willing to pay for Huawei's fresh telephone from PLN 32 to 38 thousand.
In the case of the most costly version of Mate XT with the largest memory (1 TB), the price reached up to 150 1000 yuan, or over 80 1000 PLN. The smartphone, which will be available in the store in a moment, will cost PLN 12 900.
This “smartphone fever” may seem funny, but Apple people are not laughing. Today, despite many years of sanctions and restrictions on access to technology, Huawei has found a way to effectively attack the planet leader in smartphone sales.
Other Chinese smartphone manufacturers, specified as Xiaomi and Honor, are likely to follow Huawei. The public records reported that each of these 2 companies had filed patent applications for a double hinge telephone design.
According to information published by the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), Xiaomi based in Beijing had already filed a patent for a dual hinged smartphone plan and 3 rear cameras in 2022. The patent application was made public on September 3.
Honor filed a patent application for a double-fold smartphone as early as 2021.
According to an IDC investigation company, folding phones with artificial intelligence functions are expected to increase the sales of smartphones on the mainland, and the full number of deliveries in 2024 will increase by 3.1 percent a year per year to 279 million units.
Apple will marketplace the folding telephone most likely until 2026 or 2027. Where – as with OLED screens “The Americans will decide to make the niche solution a must have for the full industry. Chinese producers are ready to rip as many pieces as possible out of the cake of folding phones. Which could be so much easier for them, that Chinese companies are becoming planet leaders. in the manufacture and improvement of OLED displays. The only non-Chinese company that is inactive trying to start a fight against Chinese competition is Samsung. In addition, there is no 1 on the marketplace to invest in the improvement of this technology, which is crucial for folding smartphones.
Source: scmp
Leszek B. Glass
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