MWC 2025: Huawei unveils the world’s first triple foldable smartphone
By ForGeeks At Mobile World Congress 2025, Huawei made a high-profile announcement, unveiling the world’s first commercially available triple foldable smartphone – the Huawei Mate XT | ULTIMATE DESIGN. The device was a key novelty at the show, demonstrating a new approach to foldable screens and mobile photography.
Huawei Mate XT | ULTIMATE DESIGN.
Besides it, Huawei showed flagship smartphones from the Mate 70 series, advanced wearable devices, innovative health monitoring technologies and tablets for digital creativity.
Huawei Mate XT – a revolution in foldable smartphones
Huawei Mate XT – the first commercial smartphone whose screen simultaneously folds inward and outward. This is made possible by the unique triple folding mechanism, which extends the possibilities of flexible displays.
The first commercially available smartphone.
But the main innovation isn’t just about the form factor. The Huawei Mate XT is the first foldable smartphone with a 10-step adjustable physical camera aperture, which allows control over depth of field and improves the quality of photos in all conditions.
Huawei Mate XT is the first foldable smartphone with a 10-step adjustable physical camera aperture.
At the Huawei booth, guests could test:
- Watch 3D content without special glasses directly on the Mate XT screen.
- Pioneering mobile photography using new image processing algorithms.
- Flexible interface to work with multiple applications simultaneously.
Huawei Mate 70 flagship series
Along with the Mate XT, the company has unveiled the Huawei Mate 70 smartphones, featuring a camera for ultra-realistic photography with unprecedented color reproduction. New optics and software technologies deliver even more accurate color reproduction, making it the ideal tool for mobile photography.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) improves image processing, while Multiexposure and Intelligent Retouching opens up new creative possibilities.
Innovations in wearable devices: next-generation health monitoring
Huawei paid special attention to development of wearable technology by introducing the updated HUAWEI TruSense system.
In specially organized areas, visitors were able to test:
- Huawei Watch GT 5 – with the function of precise heart rate monitoring in real time, comparable to professional medical devices.
- Huawei Watch D2 – the first smart watch that has been medically certified to track blood pressure throughout the day.
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Huawei has been a leader in the wearable device market for several years, and the new HUAWEI TruSense offers advanced analysis of vital signs and prediction of the user’s physical condition.
Huawei’s new system HUAWEI TruSense offers advanced analysis of vital signs and prediction of the user’s physical condition.
MatePad Pro 13.2″ – a creative tablet with PaperMatte OLED display
Huawei also unveiled the new MatePad Pro 13.2″ tablet, which gets OLED display with PaperMatte technology. This screen reduces glare and reflections, creating the effect of drawing on paper.
PaperMatte.
Huawei MatePad Pro 13.2″
main features
- PaperMatte OLED display – realistic colors and eye protection.
- Huawei M-Pencil (3rd generation) – support 10,000 pressure levels, which makes working with digital brushes maximally natural.
- Computer Mode – the ability to control your tablet from your keyboard and mouse while working in WPS Office and other productivity applications.
GoPaint Zone: Art on Tablets
At MWC 2025, Huawei organized a GoPaint art space where artists from around the world demonstrated the possibilities of digital painting. The artworks were created directly on MatePad tablets using GoPaint, an application that supports realistic painting based on the Fangtian 2.0 graphics engine.
GoPaint.
Closure
Huawei has once again confirmed its status as a technology leader with the introduction of the Mate XT, the world’s first commercial triple foldable smartphone. The company also bet on innovative cameras, AI imaging and wearable technology for health monitoring.
Mate XT.
