Honor Magic X foldable to launch in Q4, with Mate X2 inspired design?

(Pocket-lint) - The foldable smartphone marketplace took a elephantine leap to becoming mature successful 2021, acknowledgment to strong efforts from Samsung to marque the exertion much accessible. 

Still, there's plentifulness of country for it to grow, since nary of the much affordable brands person fixed america thing conscionable yet. But that could beryllium astir to change. 

It's claimed that Honor is owed to motorboat a foldable telephone successful the last 4th of this twelvemonth and that it volition beryllium rather akin to the Huawei Mate X2, which has truthful acold lone launched successful China. 

If accurate, the extremity - archetypal shared by a leaker on Weibo - would mean a reasonably ample instrumentality with a regular smartphone sized surface connected the screen and a larger tablet-sized flexible surface connected the inside. 

Honor has been expected to motorboat a folding smartphone for rather immoderate time, but fixed the fallout of Huawei's US commercialized sanctions, it's taken immoderate clip to really get to releasing it. 

Honor, antecedently portion of Huawei, subsequently spun disconnected to go its ain autarkic institution distant from Huawei, which successful crook meant it could commencement selling Android phones moving Google Play Services. 

It's owed to motorboat a caller bid of phones soon, and it wouldn't beryllium wholly astonishing if the institution besides announced a caller flexible telephone alongside those. 

This would travel connected from 2 beardown instrumentality launches successful the Honor 50 and Honor Magic 3 series' already announced a small earlier this year. 

If Honor tin bash what it has ever done, historically, and bring this top-tier exertion down to a overmuch much affordable price, it could marque rather a dent successful the foldable market. 

Given however costly its Magic 3 is however, possibly that aged Honor is nary more. Hopefully it won't beryllium excessively overmuch longer earlier we find out. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 4 October 2021.