After Huawei, Vivo, OPPO, and Honor Are Said to Be Developing Wider Foldables

The foldable market is quietly reorganising itself and Apple hasn’t even shipped its first foldable yet. According to Chinese tipster Digital Chat Station on Weibo, picked up by GSMArena, several major manufacturers are actively developing wider book-style foldables specifically designed to compete with the anticipated iPhone Fold. The brands grouped under the leak OPPO, Vivo, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Honor represent essentially the entire Chinese Android flagship ecosystem moving in the same direction simultaneously.

Huawei didn’t wait for the rumour cycle to catch up. The Pura X Max launched on April 20 as the world’s first wide-foldable phone beating Samsung and Apple to a form factor everyone is now scrambling to replicate. It’s the clearest signal yet that wide foldables aren’t a concept anymore. They’re a product category.

The rest of the industry is following fast. OPPO’s Find N6 is said to focus heavily on eliminating the display crease with proprietary “Zero-Feel Crease” technology, the last major pain point holding foldables back from mainstream adoption. Vivo’s X Fold 6 continues its established large-screen lineup in wider format. Honor’s Magic V6 arrives alongside a separate mysterious wide folding device. Xiaomi is reportedly juggling two foldables simultaneously, the Mix TriFold and Xiaomi 17 Fold. All of them are wider. All of them aiming at the same target.

The reasoning is straightforward. Current foldables feel too narrow when closed for comfortable one-handed use. Wider designs genuinely improve typing, multitasking, video consumption, and the overall tablet-like experience when fully opened. As foldables get thinner and lighter with each generation, the crease remains the last major problem and manufacturers are racing to solve it before Apple arrives and resets expectations entirely.

Apple entering the foldable market in late 2026 is the catalyst pushing everyone to move faster and aim higher.

None of the non-Huawei devices are officially confirmed yet. But when five major brands move in the same direction at once, that’s not coincidence , that’s a market shift.

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