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If 2020 seemed like a difficult year for Huawei ahead of fall, concerns have only mounted, when the Swedish Post and Telecommunications Agency recently announced that Huawei’s technology might not be used for 5G expansion in Sweden. Huawei continues to invest despite concerns, and today the company unveils the Mate 40 series flagship phones. In addition to boasting the faster processor and 5G, the company is focusing as before on advanced camera parts.
The series consists of three phones, with the Mate 40 being the entry-level model followed by the more advanced siblings Mate 40 Pro and Mate 40 Pro +. Both Pro and Pro + are equipped with a 6.76-inch Flex OLED-type display, which updates to 90 Hz. Huawei CEO Richard Yu explains that they could easily have chosen 120 Hz, but that the shorter duration of the battery it drives is not worth the upgrade above 90Hz. Instead, the Mate 40’s screen measures 6.5 inches.
The edges of the screen are arched, with a curvature of 88 degrees. The touch panel will offer quick response thanks to 240 Hz pressure sensing, something that most flagship-class Android phones will offer in Fall 2020. Pro and Pro + support face-reading screen unlock on 3D, while the Mate 40 will have to settle for a less secure 2D readout. All phones also have an optical fingerprint reader in the display.
When it comes to the processor, the Mate 40 series will be the last to launch with Huawei’s Kirin processors made by TSMC, this after US trade rules forced TSMC to break trade with Huawei. The processor in question is the Kirin 9000, which is manufactured using TSMC’s 5-nanometer technology. Huawei notes that it will be the first to integrate a 5G modem on the same circuit as the processor in a 5-nanometer package. The company also notes that Huawei’s ban on Swedish 5G networks does not affect phones, which can be used with Swedish 5G networks when they go live.
Kirin 9000 consists of a set of cores where a fast 3.13 GHz Cortex-A77 core is accompanied by three slightly slower 2.54 GHz Cortex-A77s and four simpler 2.05 GHz Cortex-A55s. This is followed by a solid variant of the Mali-G78 graphics circuit with 24 graphics cores. Neural AI calculations also get a set of cores, with two large NPU cores and a simpler one. According to Huawei, the graphics part should be 52 percent faster than the graphics part in Qualcomm Snapdragon 865+.
Comparisons to the Snapdragon 865+ in particular also continue with the 5G part, where the Balong modem in the Kirin 9000 according to the company will offer five times faster download speeds and twice faster upload speeds. The overall power efficiency of the circuit should also be better, where the processor should be 25 percent more efficient than the Snapdragon 865+ and 50 percent more in terms of graphics.
As for the battery in particular, the Mate 40 Pro and Pro + are equipped with a battery capacity of 4,400 milliamp hours, which can be quickly charged with a 66-watt power supply. Therefore, the company will be slightly faster than the Xiaomi Mi 10T series. In terms of wireless charging, the power supply reaches 50 watts, and here Huawei chooses to compare with Samsung Note 20 Ultra and Iphone 12 Pro Max, which stick to 15 watt wireless charging.
One of Huawei’s typical parade numbers is the camera part, and even here the company is investing heavily with the Mate 40 series. Mate 40 Pro and Pro + are equipped with four camera sensors, where the main camera is one. 50 megapixel wide angle camera, which is accompanied by a 16 megapixel ultra wide angle camera. Both models have an optical zoom camera and a periscope camera, where the Mate 40 Pro gets a 5 × optical zoom and 3 × telephoto, the Mate 40 Pro + instead gets a 7 × optical zoom and 5 × telephoto. ×.
The software basically uses Android 10, then in its open AOSP version without access to Google software and services. In addition to the open base, there is Huawei’s EMUI 11 user environment, where the news highlights include an improved active screen. always on display, AOD). Here users can, among other things, record a short video sequence and use it as a background in AOD content displayed on the lock screen when the phone is idle.
If you are interested in the Mate 40 or Mate 40 Pro +, you can bet, as Huawei will only launch the Mate 40 Pro in Sweden. Here, the target price will be SEK 12,999, and the phone will initially be sold through the operator Tele 2. The Mate 40 Pro can be pre-booked from November 2 and can be purchased from November 16, 2020 .
