Huawei Mate 50: what we want to see

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The Huawei Mate 50 range probably won't land for a while, but if you can wait until the end of the year for a new phone, and can live without access to Google Play, then it might be worth the wait, because the stuff is likely to be among the best of the year This was the case with the Huawei Mate 40 line in 2020, phones that, particularly in the case of the Huawei Mate 40 Pro and Pro Plus, had brilliant screens, impressive designs, top-notch cameras, good quality, autonomy and plenty of power. . Until now, not much is known about the Huawei Mate 50 line, but we expect a continuation of all this, probably along with a high price. Below we'll go over everything we've heard so far, along with release date and pricing details, and then a wish list of what we want from the phones, because there's always room for improvement.

Come to the point

• What is it? The successor phablet of the Huawei Mate 40
• When did it come out? Probably September or October
• How much will it cost? Not clear but a lot

Huawei Mate 50 release date and price

The Huawei Mate 50 will likely be announced later in the year, but exactly when is less clear. The Huawei Mate 40 line was introduced at the end of October 2020 and went on sale from November, but the year before the Huawei Mate 30 was announced and launched in September. So with no release date rumors, we have no idea what month the Mate 40 line will land in, but don't expect to see it until September, and it will most likely arrive later. Price-wise, the Huawei Mate 40 Pro was the only model in the current lineup to get a UK or Australian version, costing $1,099.99 / AU$1,999 (about $1,430). Neither phone has launched in the US, but the standard Mate 40 started at $899 (about £810 / £1,065 / AU$1,500) in Europe. Therefore, the prices of the Huawei Mate 40 range may be similar, as is the availability, but without rumors we are not entirely sure. All we can be sure is that the lineup is unlikely to land in the US, thanks to the Huawei ban, though with a new administration in power, even that might not be etched in marble.

News and Leaks

We don't know much about the Huawei Mate 50 yet, but it's possible that it uses the Kirin 9000 chipset. It's actually the same chipset as the Huawei Mate 40, which means newer phones might not pack as much power as usual. The reason this chipset is a possibility is that Huawei's US trade ban means it can't easily source components to build chipsets. However, it would have retained enough Kirin 9000 stock to be able to equip the Huawei P50 range and possibly the Mate 50 range as well.

Real and Rumored LTPO Smartphones for 2021 So Far- S21 Ultra- Oppo Find X3/Pro- Z Flip 3- Z Fold 3- Xiaomi Mi 12- Huawei Mate 50 Pro- Apple iPhone 12s Pro- Apple iPhone 12s Pro MaxJanuary 22, 2021 Elsewhere, Ross Young (a display industry insider and leaker) tweeted that the Huawei Mate 50 Pro is among the 2021 phones that will have an LTPO (low temperature polycrystalline oxide) display. It's a kind of display technology that we've seen on some phones, like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, but not a lot. Allows the screen refresh rate to change dynamically, without additional hardware components. This probably means two things for the Huawei Mate 50 Pro. First, that it will likely have a higher than 60Hz refresh rate (not surprising given that the Mate 40 range has a 90Hz refresh rate), and second, that It will probably be a variable refresh rate, meaning it slows down when you refresh more. they are not needed, conserving battery life.

What we want to see

We don't know much about the Huawei Mate 50 range at the time of writing, but we do know what we want.

1. More applications

Huawei Mate 40 Pro lacks apps (Image credit: TechRadar) The biggest problem with recent Huawei phones is software, especially apps. Thanks to a trade ban in the United States, the company's phones can't access the Google Play Store or use Google apps like Maps. Huawei has its own alternative store, called the AppGallery, as well as access on its phones to some third-party stores, but none of these can compete with Google Play or, in many cases, Google's own apps, so there are plenty of loopholes. . in your app library. Fixing that for the Huawei Mate 50 line would make it much more desirable, but unless you end the trade ban (which might not be completely impossible now that a different government is in power) things won't change. It probably won't get much better. .

2. Greater availability

No items from the Huawei Mate 40 line have landed in the US, and only the Huawei Mate 40 Pro has landed in the UK or Australia, so for the Huawei Mate 50 line we want more availability. Specifically, we want to see all model lands in the UK and Australia. The US is probably still out of the question given Huawei's ban there, but we want every region that can get these phones to get them.

3. A refresh rate of 120 Hz or more

No Mate 40 model has a 120Hz refresh rate (Image credit: Future) Every model in the Huawei Mate 40 lineup has a 90Hz refresh rate, which is a reasonable refresh rate for the base model, but less impressive for the Mate 40 Pro, let alone the Mate 40 Pro Plus. So we want the Huawei Mate 50 line to at least match the Samsung Galaxy S21 line by offering a 120Hz refresh rate on each model. Better yet, we'd love to see an even higher refresh rate. Some gaming phones offer this, so there's no reason a general-purpose flagship couldn't do it.

4. Lower price

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro was an expensive phone at launch, and if the rest of the phones had been available in the regions we covered, they probably would have been too, so we'd like to see a price cut for the Huawei Mate line. fifty. . Samsung has cut the prices of the Galaxy S50 line, so that's not out of the question, especially since Huawei will want to be able to compete with these phones.

5. A camera on the screen

One thing that could help the Huawei Mate 50 range stand out is having an in-display selfie camera. It's a feature we've now seen on the ZTE Axon 20 5G, and it's also a feature other companies would be working on, so by the end of this year, it's not unreasonable to start expecting flagships to have a camera display. . Also, one of our issues with the Huawei Mate 40 Pro was its large camera cutout, which an in-display camera would solve.