Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, June 14th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, our foldable phones cursed And will we ever see one?

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Well, are you starting to get the sense that we might not actually ever see foldable phones this year after all.

I mean, I know we have seen them, but I mean that in the sense of actually being able to take delivery of one,

seeing them in the wild.

Huawei has delayed the launch of its fotable mate X phone from June to September.

Quote, a spokesperson for the Chinese technology giant told

CMBC on Friday that the official launch will take place in September.

He said that the company was doing extra testing with mobile

carriers around the world and developers to make sure that their apps

work when the devices unfolded.

Huawei's spokesperson said the company was more cautious.

After Samsung's fold-to-beatholable device, the Galaxy Fold began to break when tested by reviewers in April.

Samsung and some of the carriers selling the Galaxy Fold have cancelled pre-orders

that consumers had already placed.

We don't want to launch a product to destroy our reputation, the spokesperson told

CMBC, end quote. Which, L-O-L-O-L. But yeah, there is that nagging little question

about whether this technology is quite ready for prime time yet.

But also there's this other issue, as the verge points out, at least in the case of the Mate X, That issue being that whole trade war business, which probably hasn't helped matters for Huawei either.

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