Huawei's upcoming Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, and Mate 80 Pro+ have been certified for sale in China. The Mate 80 has the model number VYG-AL00, the Mate 80 Pro is SGT-AL00, and the Mate 80 Pro+ is SGT-AL50. The Mate 80 has support for 66W wired charging, the Pro and Pro+ go up to 100W. One of these devices will introduce a whole new range of Kirin SoCs, if rumors from China are to be believed, while another will be all about extreme high quality imaging. Huawei Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, and Mate 80 Pro+ certifications The camera island on all three models will be centered and round,...

Huawei's upcoming Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, and Mate 80 Pro+ have been certified for sale in China. The Mate 80 has the model number VYG-AL00, the Mate 80 Pro is SGT-AL00, and the Mate 80 Pro+ is SGT-AL50. The Mate 80 has support for 66W wired charging, the Pro and Pro+ go up to 100W. One of these devices will introduce a whole new range of Kirin SoCs, if rumors from China are to be believed, while another will be all about extreme high quality imaging. Huawei Mate 80, Mate 80 Pro, and Mate 80 Pro+ certifications The camera island on all three models will be centered and round,...

Beyond the usual vanilla and Pro models, Huawei has a tradition of releasing a special, often limited-edition RS variation of its flagship, primarily as a showcase of its technological prowess. This year, we will likely get the Mate 80 RS and some industry insider leaks have already started surfacing regarding the crown jewel in Huawei’s upcoming roster. The first rumored spec is not that surprising at all since last year’s Mate 70 RS Ultimate already debuted the dual-layer OLED tech. Apparently, it will be featured in the Mate 80 RS as well. Dual-layer OLEDs, as the name suggests, have...

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...