Huawei Mate 30 And Mate 30 5G With Kirin 990 SoC Announced

After countless leaks and rumours, Huawei has finally unveiled the new Huawei Mate 30 and the 5G variant of Mate 30. This flagship smartphone offers flawless performance, a feature-rich triple camera setup, and an impressive OLED display.

Huawei Mate 30 lacks some interesting features like 3D Face unlock, Depth Sensing, and Gestures that the higher-end Huawei Mate 30 Pro offers. Another major flaw with the Mate 30 is the unavailability of Google Play services. That said, Huawei Mate 30 is still a flagship smartphone.

So here’s everything you need to know about the Mate 30 flagship smartphone from Huawei.

Huawei Mate 30: Specifications And Features

Huawei’s  Mate 30 sports a complete metal and glass construction that looks premium. Furthermore, the in-display fingerprint sensor on this smartphone helps maintain design consistency. This flagship smartphone sports a circular camera housing on its backside that houses a triple camera setup.

Unlike the Mate 30 Pro, the notch on the Mate 30 is comparatively smaller. This flagship smartphone features a 6.62-inch FHD+ OLED display. Well, if you heavily rely on your smartphone for media consumption then this smartphone will take your experience to a new horizon. Lastly, Mate 30 still retains the 3.5mm headphone jack.

Huawei Mate 30 Specifications

• 6.62-inch FHD+ OLED FullView Display with a resolution of 2440 x 1080 pixels, 19.5:9 aspect ratio, DCI-P3 wide colour gamut
• HUAWEI Kirin 990 Processor
• ARM Mali-G76MP16 GPU, Big Core + Tiny Core NPUs(Neural-network Processing Unit)
• 8GB LPDDR4x RAM
• 256GB storage, expandable memory up to 256GB with NM card
• Android 10 with EMUI 10.0 custom skin
• Hybrid Dual SIM (nano + nano / NM card)
• 40 MP ( Cine Camera, f/1.8 aperture) + 16 MP (Ultra Wide Angle Camera, f/2.2 aperture) + 8 MP (Telephoto Camera, f/2.4 aperture, OIS, 3x Optical Zoom1, 5x Hybrid Zoom2 and up to 30x Digital Zoom), PDAF, CAF, AIS
• 24MP front camera with f/2.0 aperture
• In-display fingerprint sensor
• Infrared sensor
• Water-resistant (IP53)
• 3.5mm audio jack
• Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac (2.4GHz and 5GHz) (wave2), Bluetooth 5.1 LE, GPS (L1 + L5 dual band), NFC, USB 3.1  Type-C (GEN1)
• 4200mAh battery with 40W SuperCharge, 27W Wireless HUAWEI SuperCharge

The next major highlight of the Mate 30 is its triple camera setup. This smartphone sports a 40MP SuperSensing primary camera coupled with a 16MP ultra-wide-camera and an 8MP Telephoto Camera. We can expect this smartphone to offer exceptionally great camera quality.

The 4200mAh battery on this smartphone is also exceptionally good. It is worth noting that, the Mate 30 runs on Android 10.0 coupled with Huawei’s EMUI 10.0 custom skin. This smartphone doesn’t come with Google Play services but you can still install apk files from third-party services and use your favourite applications.

Pricing And Availability

Huawei’s Mate 30 is available in Emerald Green, Space Silver, Cosmic Purple and Black colour variants. While the Mate 30 5G also comes in Forest Green vegan leather and Orange vegan leather variants. This smartphone retails for 799 Euros or roughly Rs. 62,980.

As of now, Huawei hasn’t released any information about the availability of this smartphone.