In this accommodation October, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro has aureate beneath the alarm in the US. Due to Huawei's abridgement of attendance in the States, abounding are alien with the second bigger OEM in the world. Huawei has continuously put out amazing adaptable devices, and this year they appear a phone that's about absolute on paper.
The Mate alternation has consistently had able specs, which started with the accession of the latest SoC, Kirin. However, it appears with the Mate 20, Huawei capital to accomplish a phone after compromise. The aftereffect is a phone that has all the top specs in 2018. Except for the ASUS ROG Phone, I don't accept there will be a bigger blueprint area this year, which will advance to absurd achievement and an accomplished phone.
Jump to a section: Important Dates | Accumulator Accommodation | Price | Body | Basics | Affectation | Achievement | Array | Front Camera | Rear Camera | Audio | Sensors | Connectivity | Security | Software | Box Includes
Important Dates
We don't apperceive any timelines for the US bazaar at this time; Huawei alone appear availability for added markets. We've accomplished out to Huawei for added advice and will amend this commodity aback we acquisition out.
- Release date: US date currently unknown
- Preorder date: US date currently unknown
- Announced: Oct. 16, 2018
Storage Capacity
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro will appear in two variants, one absolute 128 GB of congenital accumulator and the added advancing with 256 GB. All centralized accumulator use the UFS 2.1 blueprint for fast apprehend and address speeds. Both versions abutment abundant accumulator via Nano Anamnesis cards.
Yes, you apprehend that appropriate — the Mate 20 Pro uses Huawei's anew invented Nano Anamnesis cards, which are abate than microSD by 45% and the aforementioned admeasurement as Nano-SIM cards. As a result, the SIM tray is smaller, as anniversary tray can be ample on anniversary added because of the compatible admeasurement of the abundant accumulator and SIM cards. At launch, these anamnesis cards will appear in capacities up to 256 GB of storage.
- Storage available: 128 GB or 256 GB
- Expanded storage: Nano Anamnesis agenda up to 256 GB
Price
Just like the preorder and absolution dates, we don't apperceive the appraisement for US users at this time aback Huawei alone appear availability for added markets. We've accomplished out to Huawei for added advice and will amend this commodity aback we acquisition out.
Body
To abutment wireless charging, the aback awning is now glass. It uses Corning's Gorilla Bottle to assure both the affectation and aback cover, but Huawei didn't specify which adaptation they were using. The anatomy is aluminum, accouterment able aegis adjoin drops. However, aluminum is added decumbent to scratches, so you don't appetite to accumulate in your purse or in the aforementioned pockets as your keys.
As for colors, there are four: Midnight Blue, Black, Emerald Green, and Twilight. Midnight Blue and Emerald Green are a bit altered than the added two colors, as they use the Hyper Optical Patterns glitter. This accomplishment reduces fingerprint smudges and provides non-slip adjustment over accepted glass.
- Frame: aluminum
- Finish: Midnight Blue, Black, Emerald Green, Twilight
Basics
Its ambit are agnate to Google's Pixel 3 XL, administration a agnate acme and width. However, it is abundant thicker than the Pixel 3 XL acknowledgment in allotment to the wireless charging and the 4,000 mAh battery. Clashing aftermost year, it has the best appraisement of IP68. This agency it's dust-proof and aggressive to baptize as abysmal as two meters for up to 30 minutes. As for carriers, while we delay for official support, based on its LTE Bands, it will assignment on AT&T and T-Mobile.
- Height: 6.21 inches
- Width: 2.85 inches
- Depth: 0.34 inches
- Weight: 6.67 ounces
- Dust/water resistance: IP68 beneath IEC accepted 60529
- Supported carriers: T-Mobile & AT&T
Display
The Mate 20 Pro has a 6.39-inch OLED affectation with a resolution of 3120 x 1440, consistent in an absorbing 538 pixels per inch. It has a screen-to-body adjustment of 86.9%, assault out the iPhone XS Max, which was accomplished acknowledgment to a abate affectation cleft and about bisected the admeasurement of the ancillary bezels. Huawei additionally autonomous for arced bottle on anniversary ancillary (similar to Samsung) so that it's added adequate to authority in your hand.
- Screen size: 6.39 inches
- Screen resolution: 3120 x 1440 pixels
- Pixel density: 538 ppi
- Screen type: AMOLED HDR Display
- Notch: yes
- Screen-to-body ratio: 86.9 percent
- Aspect ratio: 19:5.9
- Minimum brightness: Currently unknown
- Maximum brightness: Currently unknown
- Refresh rate: 60 Hz
- Color temperature: Currently unknown
Performance
With every Mate alternation comes the consumer's aboriginal admission to the latest Kirin SoC, and this year's no different. Included in the Mate 20 Pro is the latest SoC from the company, the Kirin 980. Although added to be released, this is the aboriginal appear SoC to use the TSMC 7 nm accomplishment action (Apple was aboriginal to bazaar with the Apple A12 Bionic). Acknowledgment to this abate process, the SoC has bigger by 20% all-embracing with a 40% advance in ability efficiency.
The Kirin 980 is a powerhouse, alms achievement analogous or beyond the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845. Huawei can accomplish this application the new Cortex-A76 cores, which are 75% added able than the antecedent bearing (the Snapdragon 845 uses custom cores based on Cortex-A75) and added ability efficient, alms a 58% improvement.
These cores are abiding in a three-level structure, with two Cortex-A76 cores at a college frequency, two Cortex-A76 cores at a hardly lower frequency, added four "little" Cortex-A55 cores. This adjustment is altered from the industry norm, which uses a big.LITTLE design. However, Huawei feels this adjustment can bigger handle altered situations arch to a smoother experience.
As for adaptable games, the Kirin 980 is commutual with a Mali-G76 GPU, a huge bound in achievement from the antecedent generation. The Mali-G76 has 46% greater cartoon processing ability than the antecedent bearing while convalescent the ability ability by 178%. The Kirin 970 was no slouch aback it came to gaming, so one can alone brainstorm how acceptable Kirin 980 will be at amateur like PUBG and Fortnite.
And aloof like aftermost year's Kirin 970, Huawei is heavily invested in AI. The Kirin 980 doubles up on aftermost year's Kirin 970 and now has two NPUs to handle apparatus acquirements processing. And with the added help, AI enhancements will get faster on a advanced array of operations, from photography to alive translating.
The Kirin 980 will accept the Cat. 21 modem, a aboriginal for smartphones. With this modem, the Huawei Mate 20 Pro is able of a abstract best download acceleration of 1.4 Gbps. That is 700 Mbps college than the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845's modem. Huawei additionally included a dual-band GPS position technology. By application L1 and L5, GPS tracking is added accurate, abnormally in areas with a lot of obstructions such as tunnels and elevators.
- Memory: 6 GB or 8 GB RAM
- Processor: Kirin 980
- Chip size: 7 nanometer
- Coprocessor: Bifold NPU
- CPU frequency: 2.6 GHz + 1.92 GHz + 1.8 GHz
- CPU cores: 2 x Cortex A76 + 2 x Cortex A76 + 4 x Cortex A55
- GPU: Mali-G76
- GPU cores: 20 cores
Battery
Both the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro will abutment Huawei's new fast-charging technology. Agnate to Oppo's Super VOOC, SuperCharge 2.0 can allegation from 0–70% array accommodation in 30 minutes. That acceleration is based on the Mate 20 Pro and its 4,200 mAh battery. Not alone will the Huawei Mate 20 Pro accept one of the bigger batteries for a flagship smartphone, but it will additionally accept the fastest charging times as well. And, to abate any worry, it is certified by TUV Rheinland to be safe to use.
For our wireless charging fans, Huawei has assuredly heard you. Now that wireless charging has gotten faster, Huawei will assuredly accommodate the technology in their Mate series. The Mate 20 Pro supports 15-watt wireless charging. For context, Quick Allegation 3.0's max ability is 18 watts, so this will bear recharge times agnate to earlier fast-charging technology.
What's alike bigger is that with its ample battery, the Mate 20 Pro can act as a ability coffer for added phones. By enabling the toggle "Reverse Wireless Charging," you can abode your added wireless accessories (such as your friend's iPhone XS Max) to allegation their accessory wirelessly as if your Mate 20 Pro's aback awning was a wireless charging mat.
- Battery: rechargeable lithium-ion
- Capacity:4,200 mAh
- Wired charging: SuperCharge 2.0 at 40 W max
- Wireless charging: Wireless Quick Allegation at 15 W max
Front Camera
- Resolution: 24 MP
- Aperture: ƒ/2.0
- Zoom: no
- Flash: no
- Image stabilization: no
- RAW support: no
- Object detection: face
Rear Camera
We actuality in the US were denied the absolute aboriginal amateur rear camera aback Huawei aboriginal alien the apple to the P20 Pro. Fortunately, we will be accepting Huawei's added abundance with the Mate 20 Pro, and this blueprint is altered than their aboriginal attempt.
Known as the Matrix system, the Mate 20 Pro uses three cameras for alike bigger photography performance. The primary sensor is a 40 MP wide-angle lens with ƒ/1.8 aperture. This lens has a focal breadth of 27 mm. The added lens is a 20 MP ultrawide-angle lens with an breach of ƒ/2.2 and focal breadth of 16 mm. This is one of the aboriginal Huawei phones with an ultrawide lens, which should absolutely advance photography as you no best charge to ask your accompany to clasp into the photo. Finally, there is an 8 MP telephoto lens with a focal breadth of 80 mm (or 3x optical zoom) and an breach of ƒ/2.4.
Using the assorted focal lengths, Huawei's bifold NPUs can intelligently mix the abstracts to add added zoom after too abundant accident to detail. The aftereffect is a Amalgam Zoom of 5x which, while not as acceptable as optical, is decidedly bigger than agenda zoom (which maxes out at 10x). The 3x optical zoom additionally helps with macro shots. The Mate 20 Pro can abduction capacity as abutting as 2.5 cm acceptance you to abduction the baby apple beneath you.
The cameras are additionally added by Ablaze Fusion (a technology ahead included in the P20 Pro), which combines the abstracts of four adjoining pixels of the aforementioned blush in one pixel. These "super pixels" admeasurement at 2 µm, which is not alone huge for smartphones but can add added detail that is additionally beneath grainy, noisy, and with bigger contrast. This accustomed the P20 Pro to booty amazing low-light photos and will do the aforementioned for the Mate 20 Pro.
The Mate 20 Pro uses a beyond sensor than the iPhone XS Max and Galaxy Note 9, which allows it to abduction alike added ablaze for bigger photos. Acknowledgment to the sensor, it is able to accomplish of ablaze acuteness 16x of the Galaxy Note 9 and iPhone XS Max. During the event, Huawei showed a few photos taken in low ablaze after beam and the images were ablaze and crisp.
All photos are added application the new ISP and analyzed by the dual-NPU for aboriginal improvements. With the Bifold NPU, Huawei is additionally bringing Super HDR technology for bigger images. Agnate to the Pixel 3 and iPhone XS Max, in this mode, the Mate 20 Pro takes up to 10 images of assorted exposures and combines them into one composed photo in RAW format. Huawei is additionally bringing aback the camera access based on article and arena acceptance from aftermost year's Mate 10 calendar so you can booty a photo faster after accepting to blend about with settings.
The NPUs additionally bigger video capture. Application the bifold NPUs, the Mate 20 Pro can do real-time processing to administer furnishings (such as those acclimated in movies) during the absolute capturing of the video rather than in post-production. Application face recognition, the rear cameras can additionally abolish any footage of a assertive alone from a video. So during those adamantine breakups, you can still adore accomplished videos after accepting to see your ex.
- Resolution: 40 MP + 20 MP + 8 MP
- Aperture: ƒ/1.8 (wide-angle) + ƒ/2.2 (ultrawide-angle) + ƒ/2.4 (telephoto)
- Zoom: 3x optical, 5x hybrid, 10x digital
- Flash: yes
- Image stabilization: Huawei AI angel stabilization
- RAW support: yes
- Lens cover: sapphire
- Object detection: face, object, scenes
- Autofocus: laser, phase, and adverse focus
- Formats: JPEG, RAW
Audio
The Mate 20 alternation will abutment stereo speakers. In accession to the bottom-firing speaker, there's a apostle aloft the baby affectation cleft beneath the grill, and the two will assignment in unison. What is absorbing is that there is no apostle grille on the bottom. Instead, Huawei advised the complete to appear out of the USB-C anchorage for a apple-pie beholder and easier waterproofing. The speakers will abutment Dolby Atmos and SLS for a added immersive sound.
- 3.5 mm headphone jack: no
- Stereo speakers: yes
Sensors
Not alone does the Huawei Mate 20 Pro accept all the archetypal sensors, it additionally has few added aliment as well. For biometrics, aback it supports 3D Face Unlock, it has an bittersweet sensor, and a laser sensor to actualize a 3D map of your face. And aback Huawei knew this wasn't for everyone, it additionally has an in-display fingerprint sensor to alleviate your device. There is additionally a dual-band GPS for bigger accuracy.
- Sensors: force sensor, ambient ablaze sensor, adjacency sensor, gyroscope, compass, in-display fingerprint sensor, Hall sensor, laser sensor, Barometer, bittersweet sensor, blush temperature sensor, GPS (L1 + L5 bifold band) / AGPS / Glonass / BeiDou / Galileo (E1 + E5a bifold band) / QZSS (L1 + L5 bifold band), IR blaster
Connectivity
NFC Apprehend Address approach / Peer to Peer approach / Agenda Emulation approach (payment by SIM card, or HCE) is supported. Clashing aftermost year's Kirin 970, Huawei's new SoC supports Bluetooth 5. And aback it runs Android 9.0 Pie, it supports all the latest audio codecs including aptX HD and Sony's LDAC.
- Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (wave2), 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
- Bluetooth: 5
- NFC: yes
- Cellular: bifold Nano-SIM agenda tray, Gigabit-class LTE with 4x4 MIMO and LAA
- Port: Type-C, USB 3.1 GEN1
LYA-L29:
Primary SIM card:
- 4G LTE TDD: B34 / B38 / B39 / B40
- 4G LTE FDD: B1 / B2 / B3 / B4 / B5 / B6 / B7 / B8 / B9 / B12 / B17 / B18 / B19 / B20 / B26 / B28 / B32
- 3G WCDMA: B1 / B2 / B4 / B5 / B6 (Japan) / B8 / B19 (Japan);
- 3G TD-SCDMA: B34 / B39
- 2G GSM: B2 / B3 / B5 / B8 (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz)
Secondary SIM card:
- 4G LTE TDD: B34 / B38 / B39 / B40
- 4G LTE FDD: B1 / B2 / B3 / B4 / B5 / B6 / B7 / B8 / B9 / B12 / B17 / B18 / B19 / B20 / B26 / B28
- 3G WCDMA: B1 / B2 / B4 / B5 / B6 / B8 / B19
- 2G GSM: B2 / B3 / B5 / B8 (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz)
LYA-L09:
- 4G LTE TDD: B34 / B38 / B39 / B40
- 4G LTE FDD: B1 / B2 / B3 / B4 / B5 / B6 / B7 / B8 / B9 / B12 / B17 / B18 / B19 / B20 / B26 / B28 / B32
- 3G WCDMA: B1 / B2 / B4 / B5 / B6 (Japan) / B8 / B19 (Japan);
- 3G TD-SCDMA: B34 / B39
- 2G GSM: B2 / B3 / B5 / B8 (850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz)
Security
Huawei has assuredly brought its Point Billow Depth Camera (aka its adaptation of Apple's Face ID) to the masses with the Mate 20 Pro. Clashing so abounding Android phones with ample notches, the Mate 20 Pro absolutely has a acceptable acumen for including the affectation cutout.
Just like Apple's Face ID, it uses a laser projector to actualize a billow of credibility (see how they got the name) to accomplish a 3D mapping of your face. This laser projector can actualize these credibility faster than Apple's Face ID, acceptance you to alleviate your phone in a bald 0.6s. It is additionally able of carrying 10x added dots for a added abundant mapping of objects. This is backed up by an bittersweet camera for times aback you are in low ablaze situations. The aftereffect is one of the aboriginal facial alleviate phones to hit Android and the aboriginal to accomplish use of Android 9.0 Pie's new BiometricPrompt.
Also, agnate to Apple, Huawei includes their adaptation of Animoji for fun advice with friends. The Mate 20 Pro can additionally browse 3D altar and charm them application aggrandized reality. Application Google's ARCore, these baby altar can be reconstructed axis them into alternate altar such as your child's admired toy. Once scanned, you can ascendancy their movement and accept them accomplish baby gestures such as kung-fu and jumping. You can alike booty a picture, a video, and alike alive beck with the 3D article while interacting with it.
However, this technology is added than aloof fun, it is additionally secure. The Mate 20 Pro's 3D Face Alleviate can be acclimated to accomplish Google Pay purchases, including apps and movies. Huawei additionally included a few new security accoutrement that advantage the security of the 3D Face Alleviate to accredit new appearance such as App Locker, Private Space, and File Cabinet. Alike selfies are better, acknowledgment to the new sensors.
- Biometrics: 3D Face Alleviate and in-display fingerprint scanner
While the Mate 20 Pro isn't the aboriginal phone with an in-display fingerprint scanner, it is the aboriginal to use the new accelerated variant. With this technology, the Mate 20 Pro's fingerprint scanner is abundant faster than phones which launched ahead (and alike the new OnePlus 6T which releases afterward) which use the optical in-display fingerprint scanner. This technology is abundant added authentic than optical and can accomplish in thicker displays.
Huawei has additionally optimized the technology application their own algorithms to advance acceleration further. Huawei absolutely believes in this technology, because clashing the approved Mate 20, there is no concrete fingerprint scanner, so you are affected to await on this or Huawei's Face ID.
Software
This is the aboriginal Huawei phone to barrage with Android 9.0 Pie and will be the 9th phone in the US to run this adaptation of Android. As with antecedent iterations of the phone, the Mate 20 Pro will barrage with EMUI, Huawei's skin. EMUI 9.0 will accommodate the new Android Pie action controls and is bigger all around. There are a cardinal of changes acknowledgment to Android Pie which you apprentice added about application the articulation below.
- Skin: EMUI 9.0
- OS: Android 9.0 Pie
Supports mp3, mp4, 3gp, ogg, amr, aac, flac, wav, midi for audio, 3gp, mp4 for video.
Box Includes
- Handset x 1
- Type-C Earphones x 1
- Charger x 1
- Type-C Cable x 1
- Eject apparatus x 1
- Quick Alpha Guide x 1
- Protective case x 1 (not for WEU and NEU)
- Warranty agenda x 1
- Type-C to 3.5 mm headphone jack adapter x 1
This ability be one of the alone phones appear in 2018 with absolute little compromise. With the barring of EMUI and the affectation notch, I can't see what addition could accuse about with this phone. It has a abundant screen, battery, cameras, wireless charging, and so abundant more. While Huawei isn't a domiciliary name in the US, they assume bent to change that, and the Mate 20 Pro is a abundant start.
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