Almost a yr after Huawei introduced its first clamshell foldable within the type of the P50 Pocket, it’s again with a followup. The new gadget is known as the Huawei Pocket S, and it maintains the identical foldable form-factor because the P50 with round notification show and digital camera bumps on its outdoors. But the brand new cellphone comes with one fewer exterior cameras, a lower-end processor, and a decrease beginning worth of ¥5,988 (round $818) versus ¥8,988 (round $1,228) for the P50 Pocket. 

That worth means the Pocket S neatly undercuts its primary foldable clamshell competitor, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 4 (which was priced at round ¥7,499, or $1,025, in China, in line with Gizmochina). But persevering with US sanctions in opposition to Huawei imply the Pocket S faces technical limitations together with an absence of help for 5G networks. And if it ever will get a launch outdoors China, don’t anticipate any Google apps or providers to be natively obtainable.

Otherwise, the fundamentals of the Pocket S are the identical because the P50 Pocket. There’s a 6.9-inch inner foldable show with a 120Hz refresh price and a decision of 2790 x 1188. Huawei says this could survive 400,000 folds. It’s paired with a small round 1.04-inch exterior show that may act as a digital camera viewfinder, present notifications, and extra. But you solely get two rear cameras this time round (a 40-megapixel primary and 13-megapixel ultrawide) with the P50 Pocket’s gimmicky 32-megapixel ultra-spectrum digital camera absent. The Pocket S additionally contains a step-down midrange Snapdragon 778G processor this time round, versus the flagship Snapdragon 888 discovered within the P50 Pocket.

The P50 Pocket noticed a worldwide launch introduced somewhat over a month after its unique launch in China final yr, so it’s fairly secure to imagine that the Pocket S will do the identical finally. In China, GSMArena reports it’ll go on sale from November tenth.