Huawei Mate 40 Pro will be rebranded by TD Tech to possibly be sold in the US.

Huawei Mate 40 Pro will be rebranded by TD Tech to possibly be sold in the US.

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro could finally launch in the United States, but under a different name. A report claims that TD Tech will release a virtually identical version of the phone with its own branding stamped on the back, possibly as a way to sell units without violating US sanctions against Huawei. This isn't the first time TD Tech has sold rebadged Huawei phones. The brand, created by Huawei and Nokia as a joint venture in 2005, relaunched the Huawei Nova 8 Pro as the TD Tech N8 Pro last week, according to Huawei Central. The Mate 40 Pro version to be sold by TD Tech doesn't have an official name yet, but images shared by Weibo user @Ark show a device that looks remarkably similar to the Mate 40 Pro, but with the Huawei logo swapped with it. he. a TD Tech and the mention Leica in the center of the camera unit replaced by a benign “Ultra Vision Camera” tag. The TD Tech version of the Mate 40 Pro has received TENAA certification and, aside from the logos, has identical specs to the original Huawei, including a Kirin 9000 chipset, a 6.7-inch display with 90Hz refresh rate, and a 4400mAh. TD Tech's version will have its own rebranded EMUI, though it's unclear if it will support Google Mobile Services (GMS) and potentially Android, according to Notebook Check.

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Huawei has had a rough few years, going from almost signing a deal with a US carrier to being locked out of the US market thanks to aggressive sanctions. After being subsequently banned from GMS, meaning current Huawei phones don't run the mainstream version of Android, and after selling off its Honor brand, Huawei is far from ready to sell phones in the United States. Launching its phones through the TD Tech brand seems like a reasonable solution, but it still leaves big questions unanswered. First, we don't have any official indication that the TD Tech brand will be marketed outside of China, where it has received TENAA certification. Specifically, it's unclear if the TD Tech Mate 40 Pro (or whatever it's called) will run Huawei's HarmonyOS or can run Android with GMS, which would be crucial to selling the phone in the US and elsewhere. via ITHome