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We track confirmed launch dates for new flagship phones and foldables. No rumours, no back-catalogue, and every date links to the announcement it came from, so you can check it yourself. Plus launch-day coverage of each phone and a tracker that answers the question buyers actually ask: is the next one close enough to wait for?
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September 11, 2026
HUAWEI Mate XT 2 · The tri-fold stops wearing its screen on the outside
Huawei rebuilt how its tri-fold folds. The flexible 10.2-inch panel now closes away inside the phone and a separate 6.5-inch glass screen sits on the outside, which is how a Mate XT finally gets a water rating: IP58 and IP59, where the Mate XTs had none at all. The inner screen can also switch itself to a narrow viewing angle so the seat next to you sees nothing, the side rails take a 30-second ECG, and the Kirin 9050 Pro debuts here. Prices start at ¥19,999, roughly €2,565, and it is sold only in China.
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September 10, 2026
Apple iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max · The camera finally gets an aperture ring
The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max look almost exactly like last year's models, and underneath they are the biggest Pro upgrade in years. The 48 MP main camera gains a genuine variable aperture that steps between f/1.48 and f/4, the A20 Pro moves to a 2 nm process and sits on a vapor chamber with three times the surface area, and the Pro Max now claims 45 hours of video – six more than its predecessor. New Pro controls put shutter speed, white balance and a histogram in the stock camera app, and Apple Reference Image cryptographically signs what the sensor saw. From $1,199 / €1,449, on sale 18 September.
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September 10, 2026
Apple iPhone Duo · The first foldable iPhone is a wide fold
Apple has finally built a foldable, and it did not copy the Galaxy Z Fold. The iPhone Duo closes into a squat, passport-shaped phone with a 5.4-inch cover screen and opens sideways into a wide 7.6-inch display in a 1.4:1 shape – the same idea Huawei and Xiaomi got to first. Inside sits the A20 Pro, a vapor chamber and two batteries; outside, grade 5 titanium and a dust-tight IP68 rating that most foldables still cannot claim. It is also 254 grams, and it starts at $1,999 / €2,299 when it reaches shops on 23 October.
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September 7, 2026
Xiaomi 18 Fold · The first foldable built around Xiaomi's own silicon
Xiaomi's first wide fold folds the short way: a 5.38-inch cover screen opens into a 7.58-inch landscape panel, and both peak at 4,000 nits. It is also the first foldable to run XRING O3, Xiaomi's own 3 nm flagship chip, alongside a 200 MP Leica main camera and 6,000 mAh in a body 5.02 mm thick unfolded. Prices start at ¥10,999, roughly €1,410, and for now it is sold only in China.
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August 20, 2026
Huawei Pura X View · The first phone built wide instead of tall, and it does not fold
Every phone you can buy is a tall, narrow rectangle. The Pura X View is not. Huawei took the wide screen its Pura X foldables open into, threw away the hinge and built it into an ordinary slab: a 16:9.5 OLED at 2232 × 1320 and 6500 nits, in a 6.68 mm body that weighs 201 g and still holds 7000 mAh. The full sheet is now official – Kirin 9030S, a 200 MP main camera, 66 W charging and the launch of HarmonyOS 7 – and it sells in China from ¥5,999, about €770. There is no global version.
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