Huawei to compete with Samsung with its own foldable P50 Pocket: Here's what you need to know

After being leaked in renders, Huawei’s next foldable smartphone is finally official. According to a post on Huawei’s official Weibo account, the company will announce a new foldable phone called the Huawei P50 Pocket later this month. The Huawei P50 Pocket has a clamshell design that folds out to the size of a smartphone, unlike Huawei’s previous Mate X foldables, which fold from a tablet to a smartphone. It has a design similar to Samsung’s Z Flip devices and Motorola’s Razr. The P50 Pocket, launching on the 23rd of December, will have a clamshell design with a premium look, according to a photoshoot of the device posted on Weibo by Harper’s Bazaar China.

The device will also have three rear cameras at the back inside a circular camera bump, according to the renders. The Huawei P50 Pocket has a circular secondary display beneath the camera bump that displays notifications, time, alerts, and more. A volume rocker key and a power button are located on the right side of the foldable smartphone. A USB Type-C port, speaker grills, and a primary microphone are located on the bottom part. Furthermore, the renders reveal nothing about the upcoming

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foldable phone’s specifications.

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We still don’t know anything about the specifications and features, but we suspect a Snapdragon 888 chipset with no 5G modem. The trio of cameras will most likely be a wide-angle, ultrawide-angle, and telephoto lens. The phone has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor for security, according to Engadget China, who also noted that the smartphone comes in silver and gold colours.