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Huawei Mate 30 Pro: New flagship arriving this week but will you be buying it?



The September smartphone release schedule rumbles on with Huawei taking the new slot in the calendar to announce its new Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro range. 

The Chinese tech giant is set to unveil the new devices in Munich this week amidst a cloud of uncertainty thanks to the US trade ban which prevents Huawei from accessing technology made by US companies, including Google’s Android software. 

Regardless of the current political situation, Huawei is forging on.

Here’s everything we know so far about the next Huawei Mate 30 Pro flagship smartphone. 

Huawei Mate 30 Pro: Price and release date 

The new Huawei Mate 30 Pro will receive its first official outing in the world this week on Wednesday, September 18. Usually it takes a few weeks or so before a phone then goes on sale for the general public. 

It took two weeks for the new Huawei P30 Pro device to be on sale after its launch in Paris, so going from that timeline the Mate 30 Pro could be on sale by the first week of October. 

In terms of price, last year’s Mate 20 Pro cost £900 when it launched, so it’s likely the this year’s upgraded version will cost the same. 

Huawei Mate 30 Pro: Design rumours

Huawei often pulls out the stops when it comes to its high-end models and it looks to be no different for the Mate 30 Pro. 

According to leaked renders by @Onleaks, the new device will feature a new “waterfall screen” with extremely curved sides and a wide notch at the top. 

It looks like the phone will have a 6.6-inch AMOLED screen with Quad HD+ resolution, though those curved edges make it hard to guess right now. Other rumours point to the screen having a 90Hz refresh rate which is incredible fast – just like the OnePlus 7 Pro released earlier this year. 

The device is cased in a premium and metal construct, just like the Mate 20 Pro, and it appears there will be a new holographic purple colour in the line-up. 

Purple seems to be the new smartphone colour trend, with both Google and Apple adding purple devices to their respective phone line-ups with the Google Pixel 3a and the new iPhone 11

In addition, the quad-camera array on the back of the phone looks to be arranged in a circular format instead of last year’s square structure. This looks much better than the rectangular-shape that was doing the rounds earlier this year. 

Huawei Mate 30 Pro: Camera rumours 

With Huawei’s phones, it’s all about the camera. That wide notch on the front of the Mate 30 Pro is thought to house three selfie cameras –the first for a smartphone. This should also improve the capabilities of the facial recognition, making it more secure. 

Leaked renders of how the new Huawei Mate 30 Pro will look (@OnLeaks x PriceBaba )

The device looks to have four camera lenses on the back, including two 40MP sensors, probably made up of a wide lens and a wide angle lens, an 8MP telephoto lens and a 3D time of flight sensor. We loved the camera capabilities on the Mate 20 Pro so it’ll be interesting to see how this improves on that. 

Huawei Mate 30 Pro: Specs rumours 

The new phone is going to be powered by Huawei’s new Kirin 990 chip, unveiled a few weeks ago at IFA, which promises to be the world’s most powerful 5G chip. As a result, it’s likely there will be a 5G version of the device too. 

As well, the phone looks to have a 4,500 mAh battery, bigger than the Mate 20 Pro’s 4,200 mAh one which happily lasts two days – so you will certainly never need to carry around a spare power bank with this device. 

Huawei Mate 30 Pro: How will it work without Google? 

Thanks to the US trade ban, the new Huawei Mate 30 Pro will ship with Huawei’s EMUI 10 which is built on Google’s new Android 10 OS, however key apps including Google Maps, Gmail and the Google Play Store will be missing. 

The company has plans to get around this. At IFA, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group Richard Yu said the devices will feature a “workaround” to allow customers to install the necessary Google apps and services. 

Yu said the process would be “quite easy for users” to download Google apps not via the Google Play Store, as Android’s open source nature allows for “a lot of possibilities.” 

Unfortunately, bypassing the Google Play Store to download apps leaves smartphones open to security risks. At the height of Fortnite’s popularity last year, Epic Games hadn’t yet released an Android version of the game, causing several fake versions of the app to be floating around the internet that were full of malware.  

The new Huawei devices won’t be protected by Android’s security feature which could make them to be more susceptible to malware and the like. Huawei will likely have improved its own device security functions, something we hope the company clarifies at the launch. 



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