Chinese manufacturing giant, Huawei, is currently struggling to survive in the smartphone market. Since the ban by the U.S., Huawei has been coping with a shortage of components. Against all odds, the company still released its latest flagship Huawei P50 series. However, this flagship smartphone only supports 4G network. Nevertheless, this smartphone is still very popular even though it is difficult to get. Huawei is very optimistic that it will bounce back in the smartphone market, The company has reiterated that it will not give up or sell its smartphone business. True to its words, the company is now working on its next flagship series, Huawei Mate 50.
The Huawei Mate 50 series was supposed to arrive in the second half of this year. However, this will not be the case considering the delay in the arrival of the Huawei P50 series. There are even reports that the company will cancel the Mate 50 series. This is probably not true considering the latest report. According to popular Weibo leakster, @DCS, Huawei is currently testing the Huawei Mate 50 series. He also claims that this device will use the model sm8425. This suggests that the company may use the latest Snapdragon 898 on the Mate 50 series. Obviously, this chip will be the 4G version just like with the P50 series.
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The blogger did not directly say that he is referring to the Huawei Mate 50 series in his latest report. However, he called this smartphone a “business flagship”. Considering that Huawei does not release many flagships presently, he is most likely referring to the Huawei Mate 50 series.
Huawei Mate 50 series speculations
According to the speculations so far, the Huawei Mate 50 series will use the same LTPO display as the iPhone 13 Pro series. Furthermore, this display will support the adaptive refresh rateĀ which does not only achieves a 120Hz high refresh rate but also saves power.
In addition to the 4G Qualcomm Snapdragon 898 SoC, this device may also have the Kirin 9000 version. The Snapdragon 898 is a flagship processor that uses Samsungās 4nm manufacturing process. This chip uses a 1 + 3 + 4 architecture. It has one 3.0GHz Cortex X2 large core, three 2.5GHz Cortex A78 large core, and four 1.79GHz Cortex A55 small cores. On AnTuTu, this chip will most likely exceed one million for the first time.
As of now, there is no specific launch date for the upcoming Huawei Mate 50 series. However, analysts speculate that Huawei will release this flagship series in the second quarter of next year.