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author: an ran

editor: ye jinyan

produced by: deepnet·tencent news xiaoman studio

at 12:08 on september 7, huawei's 30%-off mate xt (extraordinary master) mobile phone was available for pre-order at huawei mall, authorized e-commerce, huawei experience stores and authorized experience stores. as of 16:08 on the same day, the number of reservations at huawei mall alone had exceeded 800,000. at 10:08 on september 20, huawei's 30%-off mate xt mobile phone was officially launched.

according to huawei mall information, huawei mate xt has no price quote yet. it is available in two versions: 16gb+512gb and 16gb+1tb, in two colors: black and red. consumers with huawei mall accounts can make reservations directly in the mall without deposit or other fees.

although the price of huawei mate xt has not been officially announced, on a certain second-hand trading platform, the price of huawei's 70%-off mobile phone has been marked up to 40,000 or even 80,000 yuan. in the secondary mobile phone market, huawei mate xt is even known as the "electronic moutai".

deep web consulted huawei's channel dealers and industry insiders close to huawei about the price of the mate xt, and they replied, "the price will have to wait for huawei's official announcement, but they all believe that the stock is limited this time."

regarding the commercialization of 3-fold mobile phones, idc china research manager guo tianxiang analyzed to "shenwang" that "the threshold of 3-fold mobile phones is concentrated in the screen, hinge, battery life process and ui adaptation, and the yield rate of the whole machine assembly processing is not high. therefore, the price and supply of 3-fold mobile phones will be greatly limited."

in fact, in addition to huawei, honor, xiaomi, transsion and other mobile phone manufacturers are rumored to launch 70%-off mobile phones. in this regard, an insider revealed to deep net, "among 70%-off mobile phones, only huawei can really put them on the market for commercial use, and only in the short term, while other manufacturers are still in the laboratory stage."

in the field of foldable screens, huawei has accumulated technology in both external and internal folding.

in 2019, huawei launched the first generation of foldable screen mobile phone mate x, equipped with kirin 980 processor and horizontal folding screen design. because the horizontal folding mobile phone screen is always exposed to the outside, it is easy to be scratched by the outside, and the folding screen has the risk of deformation and breakage. at the end of 2021, when huawei launched mate x2, the screen was changed to horizontal inward folding.

regarding the limited stock of huawei's 3-fold mobile phones, sun yanbiao, director of the first mobile phone industry research institute, analyzed to "shenwang", "one of the reasons is that as the first batch of 3-fold mobile phones, they may face a series of problems such as after-sales repairs, so as to avoid the problem of the mate xs and other folding mobile phones being too expensive to repair or even unsalable."

an insider revealed to deep net, "at first, huawei's mate xs and other folding phones were not selling well, so some of them went directly to huaqiangbei. now douyin e-commerce still sells huawei's mate xs and other folding phones."

according to deep web’s observation, the price of huawei mate xs (new phone) on some douyin merchants is 4,999 yuan.