An employee demonstrates a Mate X foldable 5G mobile device at the Huawei Technologies Co. pavilion on the opening day of the MWC Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. Photo: Bloomberg
Inside China Tech: Mobile World Congress 2019 and what next for foldable phones
- Report from the 2019 Mobile World Congress, and a round table discussion with gadget geeks about the history and future of foldable phones
An employee demonstrates a Mate X foldable 5G mobile device at the Huawei Technologies Co. pavilion on the opening day of the MWC Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain. Photo: Bloomberg
Zen Soo speaks with Bien Perez live from the MWC2019 conference in Barcelona about what’s hot at the world’s premier mobile conference, and gives an insight into the jostling and competition among the world’s tech journalists as they sought to get their hands on (or at least a decent photo of) the new foldable phones on display from Samsung and Huawei.
Then it’s a round table discussion about the past, present and future of foldables with two avowed gadget geeks, Abacus executive producer Ravi Hiranand and Kevin Kwong, arts editor and tech reviewer for SCMP.
They get to grips with (and air one or two gripes of) how our smartphones are going to change with the new foldable design. Along the way they revisit the history of fad and farcical phone designs – the lipstick phone, the “makeup compact” – and what we can expect as the major manufacturers in China begin to compete in the new era of foldable phones.
Does it mean we have a phone we can break twice? What are the competing visions for how they might fold?
