Huawei Mate 10 series launched: Everything you need to know

Huawei, on Monday, held a launch event in Munich, Germany where they launched three new smartphones. The company unveiled the Huawei Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and a limited edition Mate 10 Porsche Design. All these phones come with a nearly bezel-less display.

Huawei Mate 10

The Mate 10 features a 5.9-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1440x2560 pixels resulting in a pixel density of 499ppi. The phone uses 16:9 aspect ratio for the display. The smartphone is powered by a  Hisilicon Kirin 970 SoC which includes a dedicated neural network processing unit (NPU) that is designed to handle tasks related to AI and deep learning. The phone packs in 4GB of RAM and 64GB of native storage which is further expandable up to 256GB using a microSD card. The phone is backed by a 4,000mAh battery and runs on Android 8.0 Oreo-based EMUI 8.0.

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Huawei Mate 10 Pro

The Mate 10 Pro is powered by the same Hisilicon Kirin 970 chipset coupled with an i7 co-processor. The smartphone features a 6-inch 18:9 FullView AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080×2160 pixels. The phone comes in two variants, one with 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage and the other with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage. The phone is backed by a 4,000mAh battery and runs on Android 8.0 Oreo-based EMUI 8.0. The phone is also IP67 rated which makes it dust and water resistant.

Huawei Mate 10 Porsche Design

The Mate 10 Porsche Design is a limited edition offering from the company which is developed by Huawei in collaboration with Porsche Design. The smartphone looks a lot similar to the Mate 10 Pro except, it changes the default colour scheme and comes in only deep black colour. As for the specifications, the Mate 10 Porsche Design shares the same display and processor as seen on the Mate 10 Pro. The device, however, comes only with the 6GB RAM with 128GB storage variant. Just like the Mate 10 Pro, this one is also IP67 rated which makes it dust and water resistant.

As for the optics, the Mate 10, Mate 10 Pro and the Mate 10 Porsche Design sport a dual-camera setup by Leica Optics at the back consisting of a 20-megapixel Monochrome sensor paired with a 12-megapixel RGB sensor. The dual-camera on the back has an aperture of f/1.6, 2x lossless zoom Optical Image Stabilization, phase detection and laser autofocus and a dual tone LED flash.

Price and Availability

As far as the pricing is concerned, the Huawei Mate 10 is priced at EUR 699 (roughly Rs.53,400) while the Mate Pro retails for EUR 799 (roughly Rs. 61,100). The Porsche Design Mate 10 come at a premium of EUR 1,395 (roughly 1,06,600) and will be available in 20 countries including UK, UAE, Qatar, Singapore, a few Middle East and Asian countries. All these smartphones will go on sale starting mid-November.