The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate was announced for the global markets today at an event in Malaysia. The world’s first bi-folding phone comes with an eye-watering price tag, but you can read all the details in the article above.
We had a rare opportunity to take the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate for a spin in Kuala Lumpur’s streets, and the first camera samples are in. We’ll add night-time photos as soon as we have them.
The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate comes with a triple camera setup. The main cam we’ve seen before – it’s a 24mm 50 MP camera with a variable aperture (f/1.4-f/4.0), which has been available on a number of Huawei phones so far.
Main camera sample (24mm) – Huawei Mate XT Ultimate
The 12MP ultrawide seems a bit dumbed down compared to the 40MP ultrawide used in the Huawei Mate X6. Still, at first glance, the photo quality looks good.
Ultrawide camera sample (13mm) – Huawei Mate XT Ultimate
And finally, the 12 MP periscope telephoto with 5.5x optical zoom is a camera we haven’t seen on other recent Huawei phones as they usually go for 3.5x or 4x zoom cameras. This camera has an f/3.4 aperture, which is par for the course.
5.5x zoom camera sample (132mm) – Huawei Mate XT Ultimate
The camera hardware has probably not been the focus when developing the unique bi-fold. Still, Huawei phones rarely disappoint with image quality. We’ll update this article with some night-time shots as soon as we have them.