iirc Huawei shipped one of the first mainstream folding phones at a time when their only competition was Samsung and they both released them around the same tim

iirc Huawei shipped one of the first mainstream folding phones at a time when their only competition was Samsung and they both released them around the same time. Huawei also did fancy stuff with their cameras during their partnership with Leica and they even started the trend of putting periscope zoom lenses in phones if I'm not mistaken. Their SoC Kirin 970 had the first NPU when all other vendors didn't yet ship any neural acceleration in hardware. Sure, they're probably stealing from the competition, but so does everyone else. They're also doing remarkable stuff with modern mobile SoCs despite Western sanctions.