Anything Samsung can do, Huawei can do better. That seemed to be the underlying message at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week when Huawei unveiled its first handset with a folding screen, just four days after Samsung launched the Galaxy Fold. Both the Huawei Mate X's front smartphone display and its fold-out tablet screen are substantially bigger than that of the Fold. The device also uses a more elegant design, and folds up into a gadget two-thirds the thickness of the Fold. It was no isolated message, though. Elsewhere at MWC, Huawei dominated conversations, devices and announcements around 5G, the next generation of mobile networking technology, which will give base stations up to a thousand times the capacity of 4G towers, depending on the specific version of technology used. The message? "We are leading the 5G revolution." Despite the presidential decree banning the US federal government from using Huawei equipment in national networks - or perhaps because of it -...
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