Huawei introduced the Mate 70 Pro back in November with a Kirin 9020 chipset and today the company introduced a somewhat confusing alternative version. Dubbed Premium Edition it will go on sale on March 5. The name suggests an improved version, but in reality, it has an underclocked CPU and a lower price tag on the company store Vmall. The listing did not actually mention the chip downgrade – we caught that in a separate Geekbench listing. The Huawei Mate 70 Pro Premium Edition has a model number PLR-AL50 with 1,450 score for a single core and 3,793 for multiple cores. These are...

Sales of the Huawei Mate 70 series start tomorrow, but vloggers in China have already been performing tests on the new flagship line. Yesterday, we got a peek at the mysterious Kirin 9020, now let’s get a closer look at another interesting feature of the Mates – high-gloss titanium basalt and ultra-durable nylon, which are the materials used to strengthen the phones. It makes them more drop resistant, as you can see in this test. We’ve clipped only the drop itself showing a Huawei Mate 70 Pro+ falling from 2m/6ft and the immediate aftermath. You can see the full video over on...

Huawei introduced the Mate 70 series last week, and today the phones went on pre-order. The company is offering all four models on its store Vmall and third-party retailers – Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro+, and Mate 70 RS Ultimate Design. All four phones share an unnamed chipset from which Huawei deliberately chooses not to detail. However, a teardown revealed a Kirin 9020 platform with an 8-core, 12-thread CPU with one 2.5 GHz core, three 2.15 GHz cores, and four 1.6 GHz cores; the GPU runs at 840 MHz. Huawei Mate 70 has 12 GB RAM and three storage options – 256 GB that costs...

Huawei introduced the Mate 70 series last week, and today the phones went on pre-order. The company is offering all four models on its store Vmall and third-party retailers – Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, Mate 70 Pro+, and Mate 70 RS Ultimate Design. All four phones share an unnamed chipset from which Huawei deliberately chooses not to detail. However, a teardown revealed a Kirin 9020 platform with an 8-core, 12-thread CPU with one 2.5 GHz core, three 2.15 GHz cores, and four 1.6 GHz cores; the GPU runs at 840 MHz. Huawei Mate 70 has 12 GB RAM and three storage options – 256 GB that costs...

Huawei unveiled its four-strong Mate 70 series at a big event in Beijing, and we’ll be covering the vanilla Mate 70 and Mate 70 Pro in this article. Starting with the Mate 70 – it’s the smallest phone out of the bunch, with small being a relative term here and the only one in the series that gets a flat frame. It’s the thinnest of the bunch at 7.8mm. Mate 70 (left) and Mate 70 Pro (right) Like most recent Chinese flagships, Mate 70 and 70 Pro are IP69-rated, which brings protection against pressurized water jets. Mate 70 gets a 6.7-inch LTPO OLED with FHD+ resolution...

Huawei is hosting a big event next week with the official launch of the Mate 70 series. We already saw an official image of the Mate 70’s design, and now Huawei chairman Richard Yu decided to share a video that gives us a brief look at the Mate 70 Pro+. The device in the video appears to have a similar design to the Mate 70 from yesterday’s image but with an altered quad camera setup. We can spot a dedicated periscope lens in the top left corner. The phone in the video features the silver colorway seen in previous leaks, and we get another look at the curved sides and...

Huawei is hosting a big event next week with the official launch of the Mate 70 series. We already saw an official image of the Mate 70’s design, and now Huawei chairman Richard Yu decided to share a video that gives us a brief look at the Mate 70 Pro+. The device in the video appears to have a similar design to the Mate 70 from yesterday’s image but with an altered quad camera setup. We can spot a dedicated periscope lens in the top left corner. The phone in the video features the silver colorway seen in previous leaks, and we get another look at the curved sides and...

Huawei Mate 70 is up for pre-order one week ahead of the November 26 launch. The series will consist of Mate 70, Mate 70 Pro, and Mate 70 Pro+ devices, according to Vmall. The Huawei-owned online store also revealed there will be five different memory variants and eight colors split between the three devices. There have been over 130,000 pre-orders for the phones in the first 10 hours after the listing went up, and we expect the number to cross into the millions when it comes time for the actual launch. The only official teaser revealed that Huawei will not follow the trend of flat...