Huawei’s new foldable Pocket S combines a familiar design with a lower price
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#65DR2)
The Pocket S in green, gold, and rose gold. | Image: Huawei Almost a year after Huawei announced its first clamshell foldable in the form of the P50 Pocket, it's back with a followup. The new device is called the Huawei Pocket S, and it maintains the same foldable form-factor as the P50 with circular notification display and camera bumps on its outside. But the new phone comes with one fewer external cameras, a lower-end processor, and a lower starting price of 5,988 (around $818) versus 8,988 (around $1,228) for the P50 Pocket.
That price means the Pocket S neatly undercuts its main foldable clamshell competitor, Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 4 (which was priced at around 7,499, or $1,025, in China, according to Gizmochina). But continuing US sanctions against Huawei mean the Pocket S faces...