"Over the past 12 months, we've spent countless hours challenging the utility of foldable phones that dominated the mobile conversation, lived entire work weeks through the lens of new smart glasses and VR headsets, and benchmarked more robots than ever, from ones that can ideate and pull context through the lenses of our phones, to ones that can sweep, vacuum, mop, and accomplish every chore in between."
"Amidst this relentless wave of maturing -- yet, constantly innovating -- product categories, identifying a true 'Breakthrough' has never been harder. These awards don't just go to the fastest chipset or the most premium design; they go to the products that fundamentally changed the conversation, set a new bar for innovation, and showed us a glimpse of the technology that will define the rest of the decade."
ZDNET's Breakthrough Awards for 2025 celebrate the most innovative, forward-thinking technologies of the year. Over twelve months, editors evaluated foldable phones, smart glasses, VR headsets, and an expanding range of robots capable of ideation, contextual awareness through phone sensors, and household chores like sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping. The awards favor products that change conversations, raise innovation standards, and indicate technologies that will shape the decade. The Huawei Mate XT Ultimate stood out as an early tri‑foldable entrant, launching globally in February and generating major interest at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where hundreds of journalists, analysts, and enthusiasts experienced the shape‑shifting handset. The Mate XT features two inward‑folding hinges.
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