Huawei CEO believes Samsung’s foldable phone design is ‘not good’

Ever since the launch of Samsung’s and Huawei’s foldable smartphones, numerous comparisons have been made with someone ruling one or the other as the superior one. Now, Huawei CEO has spoken up about rival’s phone calling it ‘bad’.

CEO of smartphone manufacturer Huawei, Richard Yu told Business Insider that his company was at one point working on three various foldable phones simultaneously and one of them looked very much alike Samsung’s Galaxy Fold.

However, though Yu said that their version was ‘even better than’ Samsung’s look-alike phone, what made Huawei change their mind and kill that development was simply because ‘it was bad’, wrote GSM Arena.

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“We had several solutions, but we canceled them. We had three projects simultaneously. We had something even better than that, killed by me. It was bad,” Yu said.

Speaking about Galaxy Fold, Yu continued, “I feel having two screens, a front screen and a back screen, makes the phone too heavy.”

Moreover, where Huawei’s Mate X foldable smartphone includes one single, flexible display that folds and unfolds outwards, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold features a small front screen and a second tablet-sized screen on the inside connected with a hinge. One thing the phones have in common is the heavy price tag with Galaxy Fold costing almost $2,000 and Huawei Mate X priced at $2,600.