Huawei has revealed the price of alternative components for the world’s first dual-hinged, triple-screen folding cellphone, and it’s one other spherical of sticker shock. The Mate XT Final Design itself begins at round $2,809, however do you have to harm its folding display sufficient to want repairs, you’ll be doubtlessly paying a further 7,999 yuan, or round $1,123, for a alternative OLED panel.
That’s assuming you conform to let Huawei recycle the broken display at no cost. Must you flip down that provide, a brand new display for the Mate XT will as an alternative price you 9,799 yuan, or over $1,376. Ouch.
Huawei does provide some methods to save cash on display repairs for its new tri-fold cellphone. A refurbished alternative display is barely cheaper at 6,999 yuan (round $983). The corporate can also be promoting display alternative insurance coverage that begin at 3,499 yuan (round $492) for a single display alternative inside the first 12 months after the Mate XT was bought. That’s actually cheaper than paying the complete worth for a restore, however nonetheless costly for only a 12 months’s price of protection.
Different alternative components for the Mate XT Final Design are a bit of cheaper, together with a 499 yuan (round $70) battery and cameras that vary in worth from 269 to 759 yuan (round $38 to $107). Nonetheless, customers will need to maintain their fingers crossed that nothing occurs to the Mate X’s motherboard. A alternative is a steep 9,099 yuan (round $1,278).