Huawei has revealed its latest foldable laptop and boy does it look like an impressive piece of engineering.
The new Matebook Fold, announced for China today, is crafted from a single dual-layer OLED display that’s 18-inches when opened up in tablet mode, but 13-inches in laptop mode.
The waterdrop hinge will also fold at 90-degrees with a digital keyboard replacing the physical one. Users can opt for a physical keyboard too. It could take a place among the best Huawei Matebook laptops as easily as it could the best tablets.
That display offers a 3296 x 2472 resolution when opened, while the brightness is listed as 1600 nits. The half screen resolution is 2472 × 1648. It’s a little as just 7.3mm thick in tablet mode, while closing it increases the thickness to 14.9mm. It’s pretty light at 1.16kg too.
There’s an 9-megapixel front camera, a fingerprint sensor-enabled power button, and two USB-C ports too. The company is offering a 1TB or 2GB SSD while there’ll be 32GB of RAM.
The design has a kickstand enabling it to stand-up nicely if you want to watch movies or have a larger screen to use as a laptop with an external keyboard. If the device is folded, Huawei’s press materials show a UI that makes it easy to drag apps and windows between the top and bottom screens.
It’s out in China for 23999 yen, which is around £2,500. Not that it’s likely to be coming to Britain in the first place. But we kinda wish it was.
Opinion
Ok, so if Apple released this device as the iPad Fold or Mac Fold, as it is rumoured to be planning depending on the software used, we’d be losing our collective minds right now.
This looks like a stunning piece of technology that truly makes use of the foldable form factor to enhance the laptop and the tablet experience and potentially takes them both to new heights.
Bravo, Huawei. This looks like a winner.
