Phones
Huawei Mate X3 launch postponed, P60 booked for the first quarter
Last week, we held a discussion on the launch date of the Huawei Mate X3 and now it’s reported that the phone launch is postponed. On the flip side, the Huawei P60 series will release as scheduled.
According to the input coming from Weibo tipster ClassmateGuan, the Huawei Mate X3 launch event has been postponed. As currently, the company has not determined a launch date for this massive foldable phone.
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It’s expected that the Huawei Mate X3 will follow the design aspects of the Mate X2. It folds sideways and may continue dual screens including a main and a secondary display on the cover.
A report suggests that the Huawei Mate X3 will have a light design as compared to the predecessor. It could weigh around 250 grams, which is way too low for Mate X2’s 298 grams. Furthermore, the successor is likely to feature more battery capacity than the Mate X2.
Huawei Mate X2:
Huawei Mate X2 comes with an 8-inch main display with 16.7 million colors, P3 wide color gamut. It is a flexible OLED that supports up to 90 Hz refresh rate, and 180 Hz touch sampling rate. The main display also has a 2480 x 2200 pixels resolution with 413 PPI.
The secondary display is a 6.45-inch of external flexible OLED display, that supports up to 90 Hz refresh rate, 240 Hz touch sampling rate, 2700 x 1160 pixels, and 456 PPI.
It is powered by Kirin 9000 octa-core chipset with 24-core GPU, Dual Big Core + Tiny Core NPUs.
The phone equips a quad rear camera system including a 50 MP Ultra Vision Camera (Wide Angle, f/1.9 aperture, OIS), 16 MP Cine Camera (Ultra-Wide Angle, f/2.2 aperture), 12 MP Telephoto Camera (3x Optical Zoom, f/2.4 aperture, OIS) and 8 MP SuperZoom Camera (10x Optical Zoom, f/4.4 aperture, OIS), support AF. The front side of the phone includes a 16MP selfie camera with f/2.4 aperture.
As for now, Huawei has not announced any official launch date on this matter but we’ll keep you posted.
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.