Huawei unveiled its four-strong Mate 70 collection at an enormous occasion in Beijing, and we’ll be protecting the vanilla Mate 70 and Mate 70 Professional on this article.
Beginning with the Mate 70 – it’s the smallest telephone out of the bunch, with small being a relative time period right here and the one one within the collection that will get a flat body. It’s the thinnest of the bunch at 7.8mm.
Mate 70 (left) and Mate 70 Professional (proper)
Like most up-to-date Chinese language flagships, Mate 70 and 70 Professional are IP69-rated, which brings safety in opposition to pressurized water jets.
Mate 70 will get a 6.7-inch LTPO OLED with FHD+ decision and a 1-120Hz variable refresh fee. Mate 70 Professional expands the display diagonal to six.9 inches whereas retaining the FHD+ decision and variable refresh fee. Each telephones characteristic 2,500 nits peak brightness and second-generation Kunlun Glass, which options basalt fiber tempered glass for added drop safety.
Mate 70 packs a single 13MP ultra-wide-angle selfie cam, whereas the Professional provides a 3D Depth digital camera for safe face unlocks. Remember the fact that, not like their predecessors, the brand new Mate 70 fashions return to side-mounted fingerprint scanners embedded within the energy button. That button additionally integrates good controls like toggling the flash, AI assistant or muting the gadget by way of double and lengthy presses.
Subsequent up, cameras.
Huawei is bringing its variable f/1.4-f/4.0 aperture for the 50MP most important cam, which additionally provides OIS. That’s joined by a 40MP ultrawide lens on each telephones.
Mate 70 will get a 12MP periscope with 5.5x optical zoom, whereas the Professional mannequin will get a 48MP sensor with 4x optical zoom.
The extra attention-grabbing bit is the brand new devoted spectral imaging sensor, which sits in the midst of the digital camera island.
In contrast to conventional purple, inexperienced, inexperienced, blue (RGGB) colour sensors or purple, yellow, yellow, blue (RYYB) on previous Huawei telephones, spectral imaging modules can collect extra colour knowledge, resulting in improved colour accuracy, pure pores and skin tones and higher shadow preservation.
Huawei’s new sensors covers 1.5 million multi-spectral channels. This sensor works in tandem with the opposite shooters to supply pure colour copy, even in complicated gentle scenes.
In the event you’ve been following Huawei in its post-U.S.ban days, you understand that it retains particulars on its chipsets beneath wraps. That’s no totally different this time round, and we will simply speculate that the entire new Mate 70 collection telephones are outfitted with the rumored Kirin 9100.
Based mostly on hypothesis, it is a 6nm SoC that’s allegedly fabbed on SMIC N+3 course of and incorporates a Cortex-X1 prime core clocked at 2.67GHz. Hopefully, teardowns will quickly verify the precise specs of the chips contained in the Mate 70 collection.
Each telephones will ship with Huawei’s HarmonyOS 4.3, whereas an replace to the most recent HarmonyOS Subsequent is predicted sooner or later.
Mate 70 will get a 5,300 mAh battery with 66W wired and 50W wi-fi charging, whereas Mate 70 Professional brings a 5,500 mAh cell with quicker 100W wired and 80W wi-fi charging.
Mate 70 and 70 Professional are available in Spruce Inexperienced, Hyacinth Purple, Snow White, and Obsidian Black colours.
Mate 70 (Snow White) and Mate 70 Professional (Obsidian Black)
Pricing for the Mate 70 begins at CNY 5,499 ($757), whereas the Mate 70 Professional begins at CNY 6,499 ($895).
Configuration
Huawei Mate 70
Huawei Mate 70 Professional
12GB/256GB
CNY 5,499 ($757)
CNY 6,499 ($895)
12GB/512GB
CNY 5,999 ($826)
CNY 6,999 ($964)
12GB/1TB
CNY 6,999 ($964)
CNY 7,999 ($1,102)
Each telephones are already on pre-order in China whereas deliveries are anticipated to start on December 4. Huawei didn’t reveal any plans for a worldwide rollout of the Mate 70 collection.
Huawei Mate 70 • Huawei Mate 70 Professional
