Huawei has official revealed that the Mate 50 Professional is coming to the UK. After first launching in China earlier this month, the Huawei Mate 50 Professional is again at it once more, following a two-year absence – and it’s set to introduce a handful of firsts for the corporate.
There’s no availability at this early stage, however what we do know is that the Mate 50 Professional is Huawei’s all-singing and all-dancing flagship for the latter half of 2022. It’s not low cost, both, beginning at €1,299 in mainland Europe, however from what we’ve seen up to now, there’s an terrible lot to get enthusiastic about right here.
Huawei’s ‘House Ring’ design returns, with its triple digicam setup organized in a round housing on the again of the telephone. The Mate 50 Professional is available in a alternative of two designs: one with a matte rear glass (in both black or silver), and one other coated in orange ‘vegan leather-based’.
New for this yr is the ‘Kunlun Glass’ coating on high of the display screen. That is solely accessible on the ‘Professional’ mannequin – at present the one model deliberate for the UK – and in keeping with Huawei, this new protecting coating will increase drop resistance as much as ten instances in comparison with the earlier Mate 40 Professional launched in 2020.
Huawei says that the Kunlun Glass is constructed utilizing “10 quadrillion-level nanocrystals”, and has obtained a five-star glass drop resistance certification from Switzerland’s SGS scores firm. It’ll be fascinating to place these claims to the take a look at – Huawei has beforehand demonstrated cracking walnuts through the use of the display screen as a makeshift mallet, so I’m hoping to offer {that a} go after I obtain a handset for overview.
The Mate 50 Professional can be IP68-rated in opposition to mud and water ingress. It may well face up to a dunk within the moist stuff as much as a depth of six metres for the vegan leather-based mannequin and two metres for the glass variant – it’s not clear why these two variations differ a lot.
The show itself is a 6.74in OLED panel with a decision of two,616 x 1,212 and a 120Hz refresh price. It’s HDR licensed, with assist for 1.07 billion colors and a contact sampling price of 300Hz. There’s a slim horizontal notch on the high of the display screen, which contains the 13MP selfie digicam, 100-degree ultrawide digicam and new 3D TOF sensor for face-scanning biometrics.
In a primary for the corporate, the Mate 50 Professional is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset, moderately than its personal Kirin equal. Maybe this is a sign that Huawei’s US commerce ban woes would possibly quickly be over, however one factor’s for sure: efficiency is more likely to be distinctive. 8GB of RAM comes as commonplace, with a alternative of both 256GB or 512GB of inside storage.
One other new addition this yr is the adjustable mechanical aperture on the principle digicam. A 50MP unit, you’ll be able to manually modify the aperture in Professional mode between f/1.4 (the bottom aperture in a Huawei telephone thus far) and f/4. The Auto taking pictures mode, in the meantime, adjusts this for you as you shoot, relying on the scene and taking pictures state of affairs.
The secondary 64MP telephoto sensor captures as much as 3.5x optical zoom, with the choice to extend this additional as much as 10x digital. Each the principle and ultrawide cameras use Huawei’s ‘Extremely Spectrum’ RYYB color filtering array, which we first noticed in Huawei’s P50 Professional in the beginning of this yr. You get a 13MP ultrawide digicam, too, which can be used to shoot macro photographs.
Like earlier Huawei smartphones, the Mate 50 Professional launches with the open supply model of Android, which suggests it received’t assist Google’s first-party purposes and App Retailer library. As a substitute, Huawei makes use of its personal app retailer, AppGallery, and its personal Android OS pores and skin, EMUI 13.
New for EMUI 13 is a handful of latest widget-friendly options and new themes to select from. Maybe the largest new addition is the arrival of SuperHub, which lets you drag and drop content material from totally different apps and maintain it in a digital shelf. It’s primarily a clipboard, permitting you to maneuver stuff between purposes, making a library of content material as you go. It even works throughout Huawei’s units, which means you’ll be able to throw stuff throughout out of your smartphone straight to your Huawei laptop computer.
The Huawei Mate 50 Professional is priced at €1,299 for the black and silver glass fashions, with the orange vegan leather-based model fetching a better value of €1,399.
