Oppo's foldable phone prototype looks a lot like the Huawei Mate X

Of course, Shen insists in the comments section on the fact that his device was developed in-house, instead of basing it on a reference design from an OEM. He added that the initial plan was also to unveil this device during Oppo's opening speech at MWC two days ago, but that this was eventually overturned, citing that he "would not have had sense "to show it there. According to the exec, he does not think that such a form factor adds a lot of value to the user experience, apart from the fact that it allows you to enlarge the Display and occasionally bend the device. Yet, Shen teased that according to the number of "retweets" received by his post, his team can consider mass-producing this phone. Such a shameless.

Even though Oppo is one of the world's leading smartphone manufacturers, it's a good idea not to compete directly with the incredibly expensive folding phones from Samsung and Huawei – we're talking about $ 1,980 and $ 2,600 respectively. , which says something about their production output and their costs. Meanwhile, Xiaomi's collapsible phone was not found at the MWC, and it's unclear where Royole is in terms of volume for his FlexPai. We'll see how the giants cope later this year.