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Huawei Mate 50 series launched with XMAGE camera, notch, variable aperture, emergency battery, satellite communication and more
On September 6, Huawei launched Mate 50 series for consumers. The launch marks the end of the long-standing speculations as this new flaghip lineup comes with a bunch of new features as well as some top-standing functionalities.
We’re not going to waste our time here because it’s time to dive right into the Mate 50 series.
Display:
Huawei Mate 50:
Huawei Mate 50 comes with a 6.7-inch OLED panel with 2700 x 1224 resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, 300Hz touch sampling rate, and 1440Hz PWM dimming. On the other hand, the display has both HDR and HDR Vivid content support.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro and RS:
Huawei Mate 50 Pro and RS are featured with 6.74 in OLED panel, with 2616 x 1212 pixels resolution, these phones have 120Hz refresh rate, 300Hz touch sampling rate as well as 1440Hz PWM dimming. These too support HDR, HDR Vivid, in addition to the 3D view spectrum.
Huawei Mate 50 display has a top center hole punch and flat panel, while the Mate 50 Pro and RS come with a notch design, which is quite similar to the Mate 20 Pro but with slightly slim bezels around the edges.
Moving on, the Chinese tech maker has introduced the Huawei Mate 50 Pro with curved edges on the left and right sides of the display.
Furthermore, the display has gone through a number of drops and laboratory tests to bring a sturdy and strong feel to the Huawei Mate 50 series.
Camera:
Yes, Huawei Mate 50 Series is a beauty with a beastly camera system that is launched with various new technologies.
The Huawei Mate 50 has a triple camera system including a 13MP ultra wide-angle camera, 12MP Periscope Zoom 100X digital zoom, and a 50MP main camera with an RYYB colors system. There’s also a laser focus for better portraits.
Huawei Mate 50 Pro and RS are boasted with the same arrangments and different megapixel counts. These two models bring a 50MP main camera but it’s not just an ordinary camera system because it has six-blade variable aperture technology.
So, what does it really do? Well, it allows you to maintain the light to the sensor by allowing you to switch the camera aperture between the largest f/1.4 to the smallest f/1.4. Isn’t that amazing?
The variable aperture tech is used to enhance brightness in the pictures and capture brighter images. The main camera also has OIS to ensure that your images and video stabilize at the peak.
Next is the 64MP periscope zoom with RYYB color matrix and OIS image stability. Huawei promised that the phone offers 200X super zoom with these two later devices, as they maximize the camera capability to the top of the mountain.
Moreover, there’s a 13MP ultra wide-angle camera that also supports macro photography. Furthermore, there are a number of different sensors including the later focus sensor, proximity light sensor, and 10-channel multispectral sensor to improve lighting, color reproduction, and enhance background blur in your pictures.
As compared to the Pro version, the Mate 50 RS has a 48MP super macro telephoto periscope camera.
Rear Design:
Huawei Mate 50 series is launched with a beautiful design that you’ll stare at for sure. The rear of Huawei Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro has a large circular camera bump that has eliminated that ring system from the Mate 40 series and expanded the camera system to the farthest.
The edge of the camera system is styled with a diamond-cut texture that looks immersive. On the other hand, the rear panel has a smooth texture that won’t budge into your grip.
Meanwhile, Huawei Mate 50 RS Porsche Design has its own league of design libraries because this phone has its own race track right on the rear side. As compared to the standard and the Pro model, the Mate 50 RS has approached an octagon camera bump that blends into the rear side pretty neat.
Colors:
Huawei Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro come in five amazing colors – Blue, Orange, Silver, Black, and Purple. These have both plain leather and glass-back variants.
Now come to the Mate 50 RS, which has Blue and Purple colors in the primary.
XMAGE:
Yep, the Huawei Mate 50 series comes with the XMAGE camera imaging system. According to Huawei, the new imaging technology has been designed and developed after years of research on mobile photography.
As it is constructed on four major technical bases – Light, Device, Electricity, and Computing. These are the key pillar that drives XMAGE into the Huawei Mate 50 series. The new imaging system helps you to take high-quality images, with lots of colors, sharp details, and beautiful vibrance.
Battery:
The devices are packed with 4700mAh capacity in the Pro and RS version, while the standard version comes with a 4460mAh battery.
Huawei Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro support 66W wired charging, 50W wireless charging, and 7.5W reverse wireless charging. These are quite a good number for the caliber that these devices drive into the consumer’s hand.
That’s not it, these phones come in a new emergency battery mode, which could extend the phone’s lifetime from 1 percent battery level and use it for 3 hours of standby.
Huawei Mate 50 introduction, it is a fantastic design 😍😍😍 pic.twitter.com/5ZtkHdFgzw
— Deng Li (@MrDengLi) September 6, 2022
Other features:
These phones are powered by various new technologies but the ones that we want to mention include Satellite communication, which enables you to conduct communications even without no network coverage.
While these two are the first ones to come with a pre-installed HarmonyOS 3 operating system along with a number of smart features.
Last year Huawei introduced the Mate 50 series and now, TD Tech, a Chinese electronics maker has launched a new version of this flagship, especially for the industrial use case along with a lot of customizable security technology.
Interestingly, the TD Tech Mate 50 series retains the design and branding such as the HarmonyOS 3 operating system and XMAGE camera system. The case was different during the TD Tech P50, as it had to remove the Leica logo.
Coming back to the topic, the TD Tech Mate 50 is oriented especially for the IT field and industrial use cases and it’s fully customizable according to the requirement of the customer.
Below you can check all of the customization services on TD Tech Huawei Mate 50 for the industrial use case.
Safety Dual System:
- Data isolation, simultaneous online security control, and multi-dimensional protection.
Trusted computing:
- Secure boot, dynamic measurement of TEE trusted environment, comprehensive protection.
Scenario solution:
- Call management, global watermark Privacy, and three defenses, differentiated customized services.
HarmonyOS:
- Industrial HarmonyOS and Distributed collaboration – Operating System Level Industry Customization, Autonomous and controllable.
Certification authority:
- 1466 Ministry of Standards, mobile terminal operating system localization evaluation, and many other certifications of safety compliance.
Ecosystem:
- Adapt to industry security access, management, and control platform Rich system capability opening.
TD Tech Mate 50 Pro:
Currently, TD Tech has not revealed the pricing of such smartphones in the market bu it could be assigned after direct communication with the customer and the company.
Huawei Mate 50 comes with a unique ring system design, Beidou satellite communication that allows you to send one-way messages even without a mobile signal. The camera provides powerful and colorful imaging via the XMAGE imaging system while utilizing an f/1.4 aperture large sensor for low-light photography.
It carries all of the features from the Huawei Mate 50 series including the low battery power mode.
Today, Huawei has launched a third-party smartphone store on its E-commerce website, opening the area for companies that are using Huawei’s smartphone design.
According to the information, the Huawei Vmall store will now offer third-party smartphones under the “Smartphone” section of the website. Currently the website listed smartphones from WIKO and Hi Nova series. However, more of these could be listed later on.
The website will allow users to pre-order and buy these smartphones directly from a website similar to the Huawei devices. Also, these phones come with a warranty and after-sale services.
Looking into the details, WIKO 5G HarmonyOS phone has an 8GB+128GB version priced at 1999 yuan. The Hi Nova 10 5G smartphone with 8GB+128GB is priced at 2899 yuan. The Hi nova 10 Pro 5G with 8GB+128GB memory is priced at 3699 yuan.
WIKO 5G, Hi nova 10 5G, and Hi nova 10 Pro 5G are available for pre-order at 429, 504, and 384 yuan, respectively.
Looking at the chipset, the WIKO 5G is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G SoC. On the other hand, the Hi nova 10 series equips Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G 5G processor.
These phones uses Huawei smartphone design and look identical to what Huawei has already published in the Huawei nova series. However, there are more devices that use flagship designs.
The Huawei P60 series has now appeared on Geekbench, which shows Huawei is conducting pre-launch tests and preparations. A model from this lineup features Android 13 and Snapdragon 778 chipset.
According to the Geekbench listing, the Huawei smartphone model MNA-AL00 on Geekbench achieved 551 single-core scores and 2312 multi-core scores. The phone has an octa-core processor with 4 cores running 1.8GHz and the other four at 2.40GHz.
Furthermore, the listing says that the MNA-AL00 has Adreno 642L GPU, which is used in Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G chipset.
The Huawei phone is tested with 8GB of RAM and interestingly, it is coupled with Android 13, which is a rare use of the software. Because Huawei is likely to use HarmonyOS 3.1 in the Huawei P60 lineup and it’s possible that the latest open-source library in the software has been updated, while HarmonyOS 3.0 had Android 12.
Identity:
Earlier last month, the Huawei P60 series visited China’s Telecommunication Equipment’s Network Access Management (TENAA) with models MNA-AL00 and LNA-AL00. It was predicted that these two could be the standard P60 and the Pro version respectively.
So, is the above-mentioned Geekbench model is standard Huawei P60? Probably. Why? because last year, Huawei launched a new P50 series model – P50E and it featured Snapdragon 778.
Moreover, the Huawei P60 series is also reported to come with a P60E model, given the fact that MNA-AL00 also uses the same processor, it is possible to come as Huawei P60E and not the standard version. However, we don’t have any confirmation on this matter.
Huawei P60 series:
Past information reveals that the Huawei P60 series will come with a brand-new imaging system, XMAGE. Other than that, the camera will bring a new design. Aside from these, Huawei could use the latest hardware and software features.
The report suggests that the Huawei P60 series will launch in March but we are waiting for an official confirmation.