Huawei just teased a big design change for its 2021 foldable flagship

[Chris Smith]

• Huawei will unveil the Mate X's successor on February 22nd, according to a teaser from the Chinese smartphone maker.
• The new Mate X2 will feature a different foldable design, with a flexible display placed on the inside of the device.
• Huawei's Mate X2 will likely not run Google’s version of Android, as Huawei is still banned from doing business with US companies.

The Huawei Mate X stole the show at MWC in February 2019, in what now seems like it happened a lifetime ago. The Huawei foldable launched after the Galaxy Fold but featured a much better design. While the Galaxy handset folded like a book, the Mate X folded outwards, keeping the screens on the handset's exterior even when it was folded closed. The phone looked great in person, but it wouldn't end up being a success story.

A series of events would end up hurting the Mate X series in the coming months. In late April 2019, Galaxy Fold reviewers found that the screen could be destroyed with ease, forcing Samsung to postpone the launch to September of that year. The Mate X saw its own launch delayed after that. In May 2019, the US banned Huawei from doing business with American companies or firms using American-made tech. While the ban would not necessarily hurt the first-gen Mate X, any Mate X successors would have launched with a different type of operating system onboard. As a result, there was no real Mate X2 last year, though Huawei launched a Mate Xs refresh. But Huawei is now teasing a new foldable flagship launch for February 22nd, and this time around, we are looking at the Mate X2.

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