Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro unveiled, have three 40MP cameras between them
Despite the pressure of the US-China trade war, Huawei pressed on and unveiled its new Mate 30 flagships.
Huawei Mate 30 Pro
The Huawei Mate 30 Pro has the most impressive camera hardware of any 2019 smartphone. In addition to the 40MP Super Sensing camera from the P30 Pro, it gains a 40MP ultra wide cam, which Huawei calls the Cine Camera. Both can use the 3D ToF sensor to render bokeh in videos.
The third camera on the back is an 8MP shooter with a 3x optical zoom (80mm focal length) and 5x optical hybrid zoom. For comparison, the P30 Pro has a 5x optical and 10x hybrid zoom camera. Both the tele and the wide cameras have Optical Image Stabilization.
Back to the two 40MP sensors, they are both physically large and sit behind wide open apertures. The main camera has an 1/1.7 sensor and an f/1.6 aperture. The Cine camera has an 1/1.54″ sensor with 3:2 aspect ratio and an ultra wide lens with f/1.8 aperture.
Video recording is equally impressive. It supports 4K 60fps video capture (a first for Huawei). Frame rates go even higher in slow-motion mode, the phone can do a mind-boggling 7,680fps at 720p. Another fun thing to try is 4K time lapse with HDR+ colors. For shooting in low light, the video camera can go up to ISO 52,000.
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— Huawei Mobile IE (@HuaweiMobileIE) September 19, 2019
The 32MP selfie camera is nestled next to the new 3D scanning hardware. There’s a dedicated sensor to recognize hand gestures, which works in conjunction with Huawei’s in-house Da Vinci NPU – Huawei just beat Google to the punch.
Speaking of the Kirin 990 chipset, it’s built on a 7nm+ EUV process and features a powerful Mali-G76 MP16 GPU with an upgraded GPU Turbo. A graphene film carries the heat away from the chipset to keep it cool.
The Huawei Mate 30 Pro highlights aren’t over. It features a 6.53” display with wildly curved sides – 88°. Huawei calls this design “Horizon Display”. It’s an OLED panel with 1,176 x 2,400px resolution, HDR and full coverage of the DCI-P3 color gamut.
Since the display covers the side of the phone, Huawei placed a number of virtual buttons on there – from volume buttons to a shutter key for the camera.
Huawei boosted its wireless charging technology, which can now push up to 27W into the 4,500mAh battery. Wired charging remains at 40W, though considering that Samsung’s supplied “fast” chargers are at 25W and Apple’s is at just 18W it’s still among the best around.
On the connectivity side, Huawei boasted that the phone has 21 antennas in total, 14 of which are dedicated to 5G. This allows the phone to support eight 5G bands (the Samsung Galaxy Note10+ 5G supports only 3).
The Huawei Mate 30 Pro comes with 8GB of RAM and a choice between 128GB and 256GB storage. The NM card slot can help you expand that by 256GB. The Pro will be available in four colors: Black, Space Silver, Cosmic Purple and Emerald Green.
There will be a special edition with vegan leather – you read that right. It will come in Orange and Forest Green. As before, the phone is IP68 water resistant.
Huawei Mate 30
The Huawei Mate 30 is closer to the Pro model than perhaps any previous Mate before it. Its screen, an OLED panel, is actually slightly larger at 6.62” and nearly as sharp, considering the 1,080 x 2,340px resolution. It supports HDR10 and DCI-P3, just like hte Pro.
The screen is flat and with a smaller notch (the 3D sensor is different). Note that both Mates have in-display fingerprint readers.
The rear camera keeps the massive 1/1.7″ 40MP sensor with RYYB color filter and f/1.8 aperture. The 8MP telephoto camera with 3x optical and 5x hybrid zoom is also on board, both cameras have OIS. However, the ultrawide camera drops down to a 16MP sensor (f/2.2) and the selfie cam has a 24MP sensor.
The Kirin 990 remains in charge, however the 8GB RAM capacity is an option – the base configuration has 6GB of RAM and 128GB storage (+ the NM slot, of course).
The battery gets both the 27W wireless and 40W wired charging support, unlike last year’s model which was majorly downgraded compared to the Pro (no wireless and slower wired). The battery capacity is 4,200mAh.
The Huawei Mate 30 is rated at IP53 (splash proof).
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