According to the GizChina resource, Huawei officials said that more reliable than Samsung Galaxy Fold. The company already launched small-scale production on April 20 and aims to start selling the device in June on the Chinese market. Seeing reports of problems , Huawei engineers are apparently looking to improve testing standards to prevent this from happening.
Previously, Huawei announced that the price of the advanced product would be a surprise. Now on the official Chinese website of the company the price is stated at 14 yuan (~$000). Of course, this is the price for the domestic Chinese market - the international version of the device is believed to cost around 2090 yuan (~$17000).
The first batch of stocks, which will be ready for June sales in China, will amount to about 80 thousand units. Due to limited supplies of the flexible display from BOE, the manufacturer may be limited to producing 300 thousand smartphones over the entire life cycle of the Mate X. Samsung has a clear advantage in this regard: the Korean company will have 700 units produced at launch and then plans to produce another 000 devices.
But all these reserves will be useless for the Korean giant if its devices turn out to be insufficiently reliable and fail. The Galaxy Fold is reported to have a number of issues with its screen protector and other issues. Samsung has used a foldable design with a flexible screen inside. This was intended to be the main and obvious advantage - the soft display will be protected during use. But this choice led to noticeable difficulties due to the not so elegant design (two screens, too many cameras, a gap between the folding halves). The inward bending design is also said to cause a lot of tension and pressure when folding.
Huawei uses an external folding method and this seems to reduce the strain on the screen to a large extent. The key problem is how to protect the display without using tempered glass. The company is working on screen protection methods and is said to have already taken additional steps to improve the reliability of its solution. The source claims that industry experts agree that the Mate X will indeed be more reliable than the Galaxy Fold - one can only hope that this is true and the company will be able to meet demand.
Source: 3dnews.ru