Huawei draws before Apple: here is the Matebook Fold, the amazing folding pc-tablet
After revolutionizing the smartphone with its folding model in three, alias the mate xtHuawei announced yesterday (Monday, May 19, 2025) an amazing laptop, called Matebook Fold. Like the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Foldit takes the form of a large ultra-fine folding tablet, a way of trying the terrain and taking one step ahead of Apple.
Huawei’s Matebook Fold is dreaming before the folding macbook
Turning point under Harmonyos 5 (and not windows)Huawei’s Matebook Fold Fold is equipped with an 18 -inch Oled folding slab in unfolded mode, 13 inches when it is folded. This is in addition tactile, thus suggesting a tablet instead of a laptop.
The screen also has the advantage of being half foldable, like the Flex mode of the Samsung Galaxy Z, which allows the content to be displayed in the upper half with a touch keyboard enthroned in the lower half.
Impressive, the hinge in water gave by Huawei allows the Matebook Fold to enjoy a thickness of only 7.3 mm in unfolded mode. The device therefore does not have the extreme finesse of Apple iPad Pro M4 13 inch And Galaxy S25 Edgebut it is much higher than that of ultra-premium smartphones (iPhone 16 Pro Max, Galaxy S25 Ultra).
On the pricing side, Huawei announces a label at 23,999 yuan, or around € 3,000.
Apple soon ready to compete with Huawei?
Unsurprisingly, it is for the moment a Chinese exclusivity, but this situation could evolve in order to compete with another brand ready to embark on the adventure: Apple. Multiple rumors actually evoke the upcoming arrival of a macbook or iPad With an 18 -inch folding screenor a diagonal similar to that of Huawei’s new product.
Following this announcement, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also underlined On Twitter/Xthis May 20, that Apple provides for a launch for “At the end of 2027 or 2028”. We learn in passing that Amazon could tackle this market for a year before the apple firm.
It remains to be seen if Huawei will manage to transform this technological test into commercial success, before the two US jerseys joined the game.
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