With the U.S. restrictions nonetheless making life depressing for Huawei, the corporate has determined to chop down from releasing a pair of flagship fashions every year (the photography-centered P sequence and the technologically superior Mate sequence) to producing only one flagship mannequin in a calendar yr. Huawei is alternating with the P 50 flagship sequence launched final yr leaving the Mate 50 flagship sequence to be shipped this yr.
Huawei’s 2022 flagship line, the Mate 50, might be launched on September seventh
Huawei doesn’t have sufficient stock of its Kirin 9000S chip to cowl all 4 fashions. That is as a result of, in 2020, the U.S. modified an export rule stopping foundries that use American expertise from transport chips to Huawei. In consequence, whereas the flagship Huawei P50 sequence did use Qualcomm’s highly effective Snapdragon 888 chipset, the part was modified to stop it from getting used with 5G networks.
If Huawei desires to compete within the smartphone market and try and recapture the glory days when it was near topping Samsung because the world’s high handset shipper, it might want to provide 5G fashions ultimately. However the Mate 50 sequence will proceed to assist 4G solely which is sort of ironic contemplating Huawei’s place as one of many main suppliers of telecom gear worldwide implies that it has labored on extra 5G networks than most firms within the discipline. But it’s unable to supply 5G assist on its newest and biggest telephones. What the Mate 50 sequence will provide is the newest model of Huawei’s home-grown Concord working system, model 3.0.
Goodbye Leica, hi there XMAGE
The Mate 50 will characteristic new options for the rear digicam array and a video of an idea model of the Mate 50 based mostly on previous leaks and rumors reveals an iPhone-style notch on the show. The Mate 30 sequence from 2019 was the final of the Mate fashions to have a notch on the entrance display.
The Mate 50 rear digicam is branded XMAGE which is the corporate’s title for the brand new images applied sciences it is going to be utilizing on its high-end telephones. Beforehand, the agency partnered with digicam and lens producer Leica to provide the corporate with optics for its smartphone cameras. That partnership ended and Leica now gives optics to fellow Chinese language cellphone vendor Xiaomi.
So Huawei shall be growing its personal imaging and optical applied sciences underneath the XMAGE model which is able to get a distinguished spot on the rear digicam of the Mate 50 if the cellphone seems just like the idea within the video we embedded within the story.
Huawei is not the smartphone powerhouse it as soon as was, but it surely nonetheless has the technological capabilities to innovate which implies that we should always proceed to keep watch over the telephones the corporate is popping out.
