In this post, which will be updated regularly, we take a closer look at the latest rumors surrounding the upcoming Huawei Mate 10 series.
The Huawei Mate 9 is a great device that hasn’t quite grabbed as much attention on the market as a lot of its rivals. This year, Huawei plans on changing that with its successor. Once again, the Mate 10 will fall into the phablet territory thanks to its large screen and will go head to head with the likes of the Galaxy Note 8, LG V30, and the upcoming Google Pixel 2 XL, among other devices.
Huawei has confirmed that just like last year, we can also expect to see the Pro version of the upcoming Mate 10 smartphone. Will it be a China-exclusive model just like its predecessor? Well, anything is possible at this point, as Huawei hasn’t shared any info on this topic yet. However, the fact that the Mate 10 Pro will actually be revealed in Europe makes us think that the phablet should be available on the old continent and possibly even in the US.
Additionally, we might also see a third Mate device announced. GSMArena has received a tip from a Huawei distributor claiming that the Mate 10 Lite will also revealed — likely alongside the other two models — although this hasn’t officially been confirmed yet. The device will offer less in terms of hardware but will, therefore, be more budget-friendly.
To find out exactly where and when the smartphones will be revealed, check out our “Huawei Mate 10 and 10 Pro: Release date and price” post.
To have any chance of truly sparking consumer interest and competing against the smartphones mentioned above, the upcoming Mate 10 handsets have to bring quite a few new things to the table. Just having the top-of-the-line specs doesn’t cut it in this day and age, which means Huawei will have to focus more on design, price, and unique, signature features that would make the smartphones stand out from the crowd.
In this post, we take a closer look at the likely Huawei Mate 10, 10 Pro, and 10 Lite specs, features, and design, to give you a better idea of what to expect.
Keep in mind that most of the things you’ll read down below are rumors for now, as they haven’t been confirmed by Huawei yet. As usual, the company likely won’t reveal any specific details about the upcoming smartphones prior to their reveal.
Huawei Mate 10 series: Specs
Just like its predecessors, the Mate 10 Pro will feature high-end specs that should be right up there with the best smartphones on the market. In an interview with Bloomberg, Richard Yu, the CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group, shared a few details about the upcoming device. He said that it will be more powerful than Apple’s recently revealed iPhone X, and also added that we can expect to see a much longer battery life, a “full-screen display”, quicker changing speeds, improvements in the camera department, and many other features.
Starting with the screen, rumors out of China claim that the device will feature a 6-inch “Full Active” LCD display with a resolution 2,880 x 1,440 pixels that will be made by Japan Display. For comparison, the one on the Mate 9 is slightly smaller at 5.9-inches and has a Full HD resolution.
The display is said to be bezel-less, so to speak, with an aspect ratio of 2:1, just like the one on the LG G6, Samsung Galaxy S8 (sort of), and a few other handsets. This will make the Mate 10 Pro slightly taller as well as a bit narrower when compared to your average smartphone.
Huawei’s upcoming phablet will be powered by the Kirin 970 chipset, which has been confirmed by the company’s CEO. The flagship SoC was officially revealed at IFA 2017and features built-in AI computing capabilities. You can learn more about it by checking out the post written by our very own Gary Sims here.
The device will likely have 6 GB of RAM just like one of its main competitors — Samsung Galaxy Note 8 — and could come with 64 and 128 GB of storage, according to the latest rumors.
Of course, we also expect to see a dual-camera setup on the back of the Mate 10 Pro. This has recently been confirmed by Huawei Australia with a tweet that also took a shot at the Galaxy Note 8. It basically welcomed the Samsung device to the dual-camera family, something that the Chinese manufacturer has been making use of since April 2016 with the Huawei P9 series. The image posted also includes one of the upcoming Mate 10 devices, with the #beyondthegalaxy hashtag on top.
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