Huawei …ON THE FUTURE OF… Phones

Clement Wong is Huawei’s VP, Global Product Marketing, and has spent decades working in the digital and mobile industries. He’s been at Huawei for seven years, helping to steer its growth worldwide from a relatively unknown Chinese brand into a gadget juggernaut.

How do you think the physical form of phones will change in years to come?

When you look at the trend in the last 10 years, people keep making the phone compact and sleek, but the display is huge. But there’s a little bit of a difficulty, because if you keep the display huge, the phone won’t be very light or compact. So that’s why the foldable phone is coming out.

I think some more variable devices are coming out, too. So I think ‘foldable’