huawei announced the launch of the series Matte 50 of smartphones, which is high-end and consists of a standard model and a Pro variant. There is also a special edition RS Porsche Design with some quirks.

The entire Huawei Mate 50 range includes a SoC Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 and allows storage expansion with a 256GB microSD card, but neither variant has support for 5G connectivity due to US sanctions. At the data store level, the standard model starts at 128GB and can hold 256 or 512 gigabyteswhile the variant Pro makes 256 and 512 gigabytes available and the RS Porsche Design version is only 512GB.

The component that the user deals with the most when handling a smartphone is the screen, and on that front, Huawei Matte Standard 50 contains OLED 6.7 inches, which supports a resolution of 1224 × 2700 pixels and a refresh rate of 90 Hz. The pro-variant it also uses OLED technology, but in size 6.74 inches, resolution 1212 × 2616 pixels and a refresh rate of 120Hz, features that are repeated in the RS Porsche Design Edition.

Being the high-end devices (or almost in the case of the standard model) that they are, we find that Huawei Mate 50 Pro includes a combination of three cameras on the back, the main of which is 24 mm, 50MP resolution and f/1.4-f/4.0 aperture. Periscope telephoto lens is 90mm, 64MP and f/3.5 aperture, while the wide-angle lens is 13mm, 13MP resolution and f/2.2 aperture. In the RS edition, Porsche Design supports a 48 MP periscopic telephoto lens.

The standard Huawei Mate 50 has a more modest camera configuration on the back, which combines a 24mm main camera, a resolution of 50MP and an aperture of f/1.4-f/4.0; 125mm wide-angle, 12MP native resolution and f/2.2 aperture; in addition to 13mm wide-angle, 13MP and f/2.2 aperture. All models have an 18mm, 13-megapixel front camera with f/2.4 aperture.

battery from The Huawei Mate 50 Pro has a capacity of 4,700 mAh with support for 66W wired and 50W wireless charging. This is in addition to the advanced emergency power saving mode, which theoretically allows you to keep the smartphone in standby mode for three hours, even if the charge level is only 1%. The standard model falls a bit short on this front as it packs a 4,460mAh battery, but supports the same charging modes.

Moving a bit away from the usual aspects of smartphones, among the features present in Huawei’s Mate 50 series is support for a satellite connection based on the BeiDou Satellite Message 3 protocol, which is part of the Chinese satellite navigation system and allows you to send messages and locations even when there is no cellular network coverage. The operating system is HarmonyOS 3.0 in all caseswhich is good for creating competition in a duopoly-dominated market.

The standard and Pro editions of the Huawei Mate 50 will be available in blue, orange, silver, black and purple, with the latter two having a leather or glass back, while the RS Porsche Design edition will only come in blue and purple. . In terms of pricing, the standard model starts at 4,999 yuan ($720), the base Pro configuration is 6,799 yuan ($980), while the RS Porsche Design edition costs 12,999 yuan ($1,870).