Huawei and Apple’s latest smartphones go on sale in China on Friday, with the Chinese tech company’s much-anticipated $2,800 tri-foldable phone offered at more than twice the price of the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Huawei enthusiasts were left disappointed as the anticipated $2,800 tri-foldable Mate XT was unavailable for walk-in customers upon its launch in China. Supply chain issues restricted availability to pre-order holders only.

It has a base price of about $2,800. Huawei unveiled the Mate XT Ultimate last week as the world's first tri-folding smartphone. It is

Scalpers at electronics marketplace Huaqiangbei aim to resell the Mate XT’s base model for up to US$9,866, above Huawei’s US$2,800 price tag.

China's Huawei Technologies on Tuesday unveiled a $2,800 tri-foldable phone as it seeks to extend its lead in the world's biggest smartphone market and steal the spotlight from Apple hours after it debuted a new iPhone.

Here's Huawei's very first tri-fold smartphone in the middle of (un)folding. It's coming on September 10, in case you're wondering.

The Huawei Mate XT tri-fold phone. Ben Sin. The foldable phone scene is slowly starting to mature in the U.S., with Samsung and Google putting out much improved foldable hardware

Samsung, and every other phone maker, has a lot of devices in the research and development phase. And now a Samsung rollable phone could be on its way out of that phase and coming to market. The Korean company seems to have moved on from the tri-fold idea — Huawei beat Samsung to the punch with its Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design — and shifted focus to a rollable one instead.

Huawei recently launched the world's first tri-fold smartphone in China which has been gaining much popularity. Now, as the foldable competition rises, Samsung reportedly starts work on rollable and tri-folding devices.