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MWC 2025 | Tecno showcases Phantom Ultimate 2 Tri-Fold

The Phantom Ultimate 2. (Image source: Tecno)
The Phantom Ultimate 2. (Image source: Tecno)
Tecno has challenged Samsung in Barcelona with its own tri-folding smartphone. The Phantom Ultimate 2 has a main display of about ten inches in diagonal length, yet can fold down to the size of a more or less average candy-bar handset just like the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate. The working prototype is also rated to be thinner and to have a higher-resolution display than that pre-existing device.

The Phantom Ultimate was a concept with rollable display elements; however, Tecno has chosen to go with trendy tri-folding technology in its second generation.

Its screen is rated to be 10 inches in diagonal length, and to collapse down to 6.48 inches, in a manner almost suspiciously reminiscent of the Huawei Mate XT Ultimate.

Tecno does claims that its 3K LTPO OLED display with Touch and Display Driver Integration (TDDI) technology has 392 pixels per inch, compared to 298 in the Mate XT.

The Phantom Ultimate 2 has an eye-catchingly shiny silver rear panel and a triple rear camera hump more like that of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold6 (now available on Amazon for $1,249.99 with 256GB of internal storage).

It can bend and flex into a variety of single-display, dual-display and tent modes, and is touted to withstand "over 300,000 folds" with "a state-of-the-art hinge design with incredible 2100MPa strength".

Tecno also hints that its Tri-Fold has a minimal crease and a class-leading design at only 11 millimeters (mm) thick when fully folded, which would make it thinner than its real-world Huawei counterpart.

The OEM claims to have incorporated technology such as "the smartphone industry’s thinnest battery cover" made of "super compressed Titan Advanced Fiber material" in order to achieve that goal.

The Phantom Ultimate 2 Tri-Fold is currently on show to MWC 2025 attendees alongside Tecno's new Spark Slim and AI Glasses.

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Deirdre O'Donnell, 2025-03- 3 (Update: 2025-03- 3)