Samsung’s new phone shows how far ahead of China is in innovation

And despite all these hinges and all of its complexity, the Huawei Mate XT is only fractionally thicker than Samsung’s last generation Galaxy Z Fold6, released a few months ago.

Samsung believed that he would tease three news phones at Samsung’s unlocked launch this year, but that didn’t happen. Instead, after the event, it announced that it was “working hard” in one, and that it would come at the end of 2025. The cutting edge technology is beginning to get quite dull in Samsung’s hands. So, what’s going on?

With all major Chinese manufacturers, from Xiaomi to Huawei, planning on launching foldables this year, Samsung appears to be afraid to make more than a fragmentary upgrade, and others like Apple remain incredibly quiet. And why can we in the West see most of these phones, not from brands that are not approved by the US government, but even from brands?

Apparently, part of that is that Chinese audiences are more interested in finding new things compared to the average UK and US buyers.

“Chinese consumers are significantly mature, and many are now on their fifth or sixth smartphone. This experience has made them proactively seeking unique and sophisticated devices,” says Neil Shah, Vice President of Research at Counterpoint.

“China is the world’s largest foldable market due to growing demand and appetite for differentiated smartphones. The foldable penetration of Chinese smartphone sales has also been consistently higher than other markets.

“Other wealthy markets, such as the US and Western Europe, still exist on the global average of 1% penetration of the folding of smartphone total sales.”

Same old, same old

Despite the undeniable interest, most of us seem willing to actually buy folding, as we may complain about the smartphone not changing. As a result, Chinese phone brands have evolved rapidly, while other mobile phone brands focus on Western sales. That’s the point where the UK has raised its own marketing fulcrum.

Carl Pei, CEO and co-founder of Faux Startup OnePlus is nothing. Nothing phone (3)suggesting the excitement of old magic and new technology. There is no predominantly anything superficial, but he has a point.

But why can Chinese mobile phone brands at least Chinese mobile phone brands still float, not conservative? Huawei, the global market leader at Foldables, has an additional draw for Chinese buyers who have survived as “local” heroes despite dramatic US sanctions applied in 2019. That’s a good story.

Technology hegemony is not only the country’s most well-known brand, but also an important goal for the Chinese government. And it comes with a perk.

Carmaker BYD reportedly was subsidized by the government to more than $3.7 billion. 2019, Wall Street Journal It claimed that Huawei has benefited from the state’s $75 billion subsidy.

According to Canalys, it’s easy to forget that Huawei came in second in global smartphone shipments in Q4 2019. That stratospheric rise wasn’t cheap and didn’t happen overnight, but sales were poured in, especially with competition at Cameratech. Wall Street JournalChina shows how enthusiastic they are to make their brands successful without US support.