Despite all the hardware, the Mate X6 is slim for a foldable phone, measuring 4.6mm thick when unfolded and 9.9mm when folded. The phone can connect to Tiantong and Beidou satellites when you don't have a cell signal, allowing you to make calls and send messages.

After making headlines with the world’s first double folding phone (that is selling only in China), Huawei is launching a new foldable phone for the global market including Europe, Asia and the Middle East. But sadly for tech geeks such as myself, this is “just” a conventional book-like foldable phone that bends at only one point.

The new Huawei Mate X6 folding phone comes equipped with an extremely powerful camera system, with an adjustable aperture and 4x optical zoom – but it’s not likely to come to the US or UK.