Even with Huawei’s current complicated situation, the company is still ready to launch a Fall flagship. It’s called Huawei Mate 50, which is actually a series of 3 devices. It includes a Huawei Mate 50, a Huawei Mate 50 Pro and Huawei Mate 50 RS, which have leaked in renders and specs, as shown below.
The devices will have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor 4G version inside, instead of the Snapdragon 888. The Pro model will have a workaround, a 5G enabled case, like the Huawei P50 Pro did. The Pro and Mate 50 RS models will feature 12 GB of RAM and up to 512 GB of storage. The core Mate 50 model will only use 8 GB of RAM and 128 or 256 GB of storage. Huawei also provides an NPU made by HiSilicon for the XMAGE processing thing, which comes as a replacement for Leica.
There are a few interesting facts about the cameras: it has a switchable aperture from F/1.4 to F/4, which reminds me of the variable aperture of the Galaxy S9. That happens on the main 50 MP camera, which is a Sony IMX800 sensor. There should also be a telephoto lens in the mix, plus an ultrawide cam. Selfie-wise we get a 13 MP main shooter, accompanied by a 3D sensor. All 3 phones will have a 4400-4500 mAh battery with 66W fast charging.
The 3 smartphones will adopt AMOLED panels made by BOE and the Pro will have a curved LTPO 6.78 inch 120 Hz panel, while the vanilla will adopt a 90 Hz LTPS panel. Mate 50 RS tweaks things up a bit with a ceramic body. The other two will adopt a metal and glass sandwich approach. A fourth model dubbed Mate 50E is supposedly in the making too.
HarmonyOS 3.0 is expected here, with an Emergency feature, which lets you make a call or send a text even when the battery hits zero percent.
via gsmarena