Huawei’s new trifold phone costs more than a 16-inch MacBook Pro

All models are equipped with 16GB of RAM, and two additional storage variants are available that cost 21,999 yuan (about $3,089) for 512GB and 23,999 yuan (about $3,370) for 1TB.

They are learning from Apple about the memory price. $300 for 512 gb additional memory storage is insane.

With how my Galaxy Flip has held up, this thing will be unusable in 6 months. There's no way it will lay flat for long with regular use.

I'm waiting for rollable screens to become a thing.

Trifold is a newish technology while laptop are very standard. Make sense that it's as expensive

Folding tablet. We've left phone behind at this point.

But a trifold phone is way cooler than a laptop so of course it costs more.

I still think it’s bifold !

This is a form factor that is actually interesting to me instead of having a double-sided screen.

If it fits in a pocket I assume the battery life is atrocious, though. If it doesn't fit in a pocket, why bother having it over a tablet?

I'd read more into it but that price is outrageous.

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Kinda cool though tbf. Wrappable tech would be an awesome next step, like a watch that’s all screen that you can completely wrap around your wrist.

Super cool concept. But I will never own another Huawei.

Soon-to-be trifold crack the first time it’s dropped.

I'm glad companies are continuing to innovate, but it feels wrong to be moving towards mechanical inventions again when we've finally nailed solid state tech. Have we forgotten how often printers used to break?

Having the flexible screen facing externally on one fold seems quite reckless considering how fragile they still are by virtue of needing to be flexible. Having a Fold 4, the screen definitely relies on the thin film screen protector that the flexible screens come with. But because the screen is contained internally, it's protected by the device.

Having it unprotected means any drops on a surface that is able to hit the screen directly will most likely lead to cracks in the LED layer and kill the screen. And the geometry of the folded part would imply that any impacts will most certainly lead to cracks. You can test this by folding a piece of paper in a similar manner and then hitting the folded part. It'll make tiny very sharp creases in the paper, and these creases are what kills the screen.