Huawei’s flip phones may be about to change shape. A rumour on Weibo describes a compact, wider foldable carrying the nova Flip name. Its display is put at 6.3 inches, and it is slated for the coming year. Huawei has said nothing about it, so for now the post is all there is.
The processor would be a Kirin from the 9 series, though the tipster did not say which. The nova Flip S, launched in China last year, runs a Kirin 8030, which makes the reported chip a real jump. That phone was mostly the original nova Flip again, in different colours, at a lower price and with another chipset, so a wide redesign would be a much bigger departure than the S was.
Huawei already sells a wide-format phone in the Pura X, whose inner display is 6.39 inches at a 16:10 ratio. The claimed nova Flip panel would be slightly smaller. Digital Chat Station, a well-known tipster, had said in July that Huawei would release another compact wide foldable in the coming year, and most readers took that to mean a Pura X successor. The new claim points at a nova Flip, and it is possible Huawei plans both, giving the wide shape two price levels.
A wide foldable opens into a squarer inner screen than a tall, narrow flip does, which changes how the phone sits in the hand and suits reading and video better. Neither a price nor a launch date came with the tip, and the account’s owner was not named in the reports. Nothing suggests a sale outside China, and since the claim rests on a single unverified account, the screen size, chip and even the wide shape could all change before anything is announced.
