Top 5 highlights of Huawei Mate 30 Pro

Since the new Huawei Mate 30 Pro is now official in the country along with an attractive price tag, there's a chance that many will be interested in getting this new flagship device.

Huawei Mate 30 Pro

Before you buy one, here are the top 5 highlights of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro.

Top 5 highlights of Huawei Mate 30 Pro

Halo Ring design

1. Design - First off, the Mate 30 Pro has a new design with an aluminum frame and a "Halo Ring" found at the back surrounding the rear quad cameras. With two colors, in Space Silver and Black, the new shades radiate in every direction.

Stunning screen

It also has a 6.47-inch 3D curved OLED screen with FHD+ resolution with an 88-degree waterfall-type curve that gives it a seamless look. There are no side buttons for the volume controls as you can use the side of the display for that. There is a notch that Huawei calls "Horizon Display" which is noticeably smaller in size.

Monster speed

2. Brand new Kirin 990 chipset - This is not the 5G version of the chip. However, there is a Mate 30 Pro 5G which has the Kirin 990 5G SoC built under 7nm+ EUV process with 10.3 billion transistors and a tri-core NPU.

For now, we will focus on the regular Mate 30 Pro since we don't have the 5G version yet. The Kirin 990 is based on 7nm process with 8.0 billion transistors. It can run up to 2.86GHz and it also has a Dual NPU that has 1 Big-Core and 1 Tiny-Core NPU.

It is backed by the Mali-G76 MP16 with the new-gen GPU Turbo, 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM, and a 256GB expandable storage.

3. Bigger battery with lots of charging solutions - The Mate 30 Pro has a 4,500mAh battery with options of 40W Supercharge, 27W Wireless SuperCharge and even Reverse Wireless Charging.

The bigger battery capacity ensures that you have enough juice for your regular daily load. The charging options further improve your battery life throughout the day since you can charge quickly whether wired or wireless.

According to Huawei, its reverse wireless charging feature is 3x faster than previous-gen reverse wireless charging.

A lot of cameras

4. Cameras for mobile photographers and videographers - At the back, the Mate 30 Pro has a quad-camera setup with 40MP f/1.8 18mm Ultra-Wide RGGB CFA Cine sensor + 40MP 27mm f/1.6 SuperSensing Wide sensor with OIS + 8MP 80mm f/2.4 Telephoto with OIS + 3D Depth Sensor.

It also sports ISO 409,600, 45x Zooming Range, Pro-Bokeh, Dual OIS-AIS stabilization solution.

In addition, it also has 4K 60fps video support, 7,680fps slow-mo at 720p, 4K time-lapse with HDR+ colors, and up to ISO 52,000 low light video.

For selfies, it has a 32MP shooter with 3D scanning hardware. The notch houses sensor to recognize hand gestures and auto-rotate by tracking the subject's head.

It uses NPU this time instead of just the traditional accelerometer.

The flagship to beat?

5. Exciting price - PHP 50,990. Yep, that's the price of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro. You can get this beast of a device at that very competitive price point.

Despite its monstrous hardware, it is more affordable compared to the competition such as the Samsung Note10 and the new iPhone 11 series.

Huawei Mate 30 Pro Specs

Display: 6.47-inch Horizon OLED screen w/ FHD+ 2400 x 1176 resolution at 413 ppi
CPU: 2.86GHz 64-bit Kirin 990 octa-core processor w/ Dual NPU (Big-Core + Tiny-Core)
GPU: Mali-G76 MP16 w/ GPU Turbo (New-Gen)
RAM: 8GB LPDDR4X
ROM: 256GB expandable via NM card slot up to 256GB
Back Camera: 40MP f/1.6 SuperSensing w/ OIS + 40MP f/1.8 SuperSensing Cine Camera + 8MP f/2.4 3x Optical Zoom w/ OIS + 3D Depth Sensing Camera w/ PDAF and CAF, and dual-tone LED flash w/ Color Temperature sensor
Selfie Camera: 32MP f/2.0 + 3D Depth Sensing Camera
Battery: 4,500mAh w/ 40W SuperCharge + 27W Wireless SuperCharge + Reverse Wireless Charging
OS: Android 10 w/ EMUI 10.0
Connectivity: WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz/5GHz), 700MHz 4G LTE Cat 21, Bluetooth 5.1 LE, aptX HD, LDAC, OTG, NFC, GPS (L1 + L5 dual-band), A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo (E1 + E5a dual-band), QZZS (L1 + L5 dual-band), dual SIM (hybrid)
Sensors: Accelerometer, light, orientation, proximity, gyroscope, sound, magnetic, pressure
Others: In-Display fingerprint sensor, IR Blaster, IP68 water and dust resistance, 384K/32-bit HiFi DAC, USB-C, In-Display earspeaker + loudspeaker, Virtual Volume Tuner, Colors: black, space silver
Dimensions: 158.1 x 73.1 x 8.8 mm, 9.5 mm (Leather)
Weight: 198 g
Price: PHP 50,990 (PHP 46,990 new SRP)

Despite not having Google services out of the box, this is no doubt that it is a strong phone of the year candidate.

Besides, it is very simple to add Google services to your Mate 30 Pro.

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