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The Huawei Mate 40 series will launch very soon and this could be one of the last flagship smartphones to launch in 2020. The device could also be Huawei’s latest flagship smartphone running on a Kirin processor.
Ahead of the launch event, we can now clearly see the Huawei Mate 40 Pro thanks to high-resolution images from the Roland Quandt serial leaker. Like last year’s Mate 30 series, the new Mate 40 still features a fairly large circular camera bump.
According to Roland, the Mate 40 Pro will come with a 6.76 ″ dual-curved OLED display that offers a resolution of 2772 × 1344 pixels. It was previously speculated that it would come with a 120Hz screen refresh rate, but it is not confirmed at the moment. If you look sideways, Huawei is bringing back the traditional volume rocker for the Mate 40 Pro and it still has a red power button.
Under the hood, the Huawei Mate 40 Pro runs on a 5nm octa-core Kirin 9000 processor that uses high-performance Cortex-A77 cores. The new chip is said to outperform the current Snapdragon 865+ processor, which was to be expected. Due to current restrictions by the US government, the Kirin 9000 would be the last Hi-Silicon chip to be produced by TSMC.
Huawei is expected to offer only one variant of Huawei Mate 40 Pro for the European market with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of non-expandable UFS 3.1 storage. Roland added that Huawei has planned to introduce more models in China, including the Mate 40 RS and a Mate 40 Pro + model.
Ice Universe also just shared an image that appears to be the Porsche Design edition of the Mate 40. The octagonal camera bulge looks like a stop sign with 6 holes cut out. It is likely to be the Mate 40 RS, the successor to last year’s Mate 30 RS.
Huawei’s partnership with Leica continues in the imaging department and they offer a triple camera setup for the new Mate 40 Pro. The new camera setup will feature a 50MP f / 1.9 main camera with OIS, an ultra-wide camera 20MP f / 1.8 and a 12MP f / 3.4 telephoto camera. If you look at the upper left corner, it appears to be a square periscope camera module, which is the first in a Huawei Mate series.
The Leica label that sits right in the middle of the bulge indicates 1: 18-3.4 / 18-125 ASPH. Interestingly, this is similar to the Huawei P40 Pro as shown below. The Mate 40 Pro is expected to offer a 5x optical zoom, which can probably go up to 50x in digital zoom.
Up front, Huawei is finally ditching the wide notch, opting for a wide hole for its selfie camera. The front is said to have a 13MP f / 2.4 camera for 3D sensing as well and it could also support hand gestures like your current Mate 30 Pro.
The Mate 40 is said to come with a 4400mAh battery that will support 65W fast charging via USB-C. There’s also fast wireless charging support which is likely similar to your current 40W wireless SuperCharge on the P40 Pro +.
Obviously, Huawei will take advantage of its 5G capabilities and will also support the latest WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. However, the new Mate 40 Pro is said to still be running on Android 10 with EMUI 11. Again, with the current situation with the US government, the devices will ship without Google apps and services pre-installed.
The Huawei Mate 40 series will launch at 8 pm next Thursday, October 22 and the event will be broadcast live. Since Malaysia is a key market, we expect pre-orders to start shortly after the global launch.
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